Welcome to the Cracow University of Technology
Welcome to the Cracow University of Technology!
A rich tradition and education quality of the county’s engineering staff, systematic work on the improvement of Polish scientific and technical ideas, modernity and openness to change are the main advantages of the Cracow University of Technology. Thanks to this, the University – despite operating in such a competitive academic centre as Cracow – gained a strong position and established a well-known brand associated with the high level of teaching and scientific research.
About 70 thousand students have graduated from the University so far. It is a great throng of very well educated engineers and masters engineers. The University concentrates on the quality of education, giving its students the most valuable and most enduring assets on the labour market – knowledge and the ability to improve their knowledge throughout their lives. How much employers value education obtained at the CUT is very well reflected in numerous awards granted to the University in recent years. These successes are obviously a merit of graduates, but they also prove that our university offers courses of study interesting and relevant to the needs of the modern economy. In recent years, we have extended their list to include such modern fields of science as: nanotechnologies and nanomaterials, biomedical engineering, spatial management and – starting from the year 2013/14 – industrial design engineering.
Currently the University is educating over 19 thousand students of both full-time and extramural studies of the first and second cycle as well as doctoral and postgraduate courses. The CUT offers twenty five courses of study at seven faculties. Such a wide choice means diversity of intellectual research and ability to accomplish ambitious tasks under qualified academic staff’s tutelage.
Many of our 1200 researchers and teachers are distinguished specialists participating in intercollegial projects and international research studies. Their knowledge and competence allow our university to keep steady position both in Polish and international scientific circles. We develop many important scientific disciplines, so that we are prepared to solve crucial problems of the region and the country and also to educate students who will not have major problems with finding employment after the graduation.
Bearing in mind that we are located in Cracow – a city of culture and art – we support artists in the “Zależny” (Dependent) Theatre as well as we organise numerous exhibitions. We also offer our students a wealth of opportunities for developing their sporting and artistic passions, according to the trend of humanisation of science studies prevailing in higher education. This humanisation is inscribed in the rich tradition of the city, which has been a cultural centre of Poland for 600 years and where the present connects with the past and the future.
We are committed to ensure that all the CUT graduates represent a high level of expertise as well as the highest ethical standards so that they can choose from many interesting job offers, as our slogan is: Cracow University of Technology – Straight Way to Career.
Prof. Kazimierz FURTAK, Rector of the CUT
