Wrocław University of Science and Technology is a public university which was established in 1945.

Our mission is to maintain and develop the competencies related to the culture of experiment. These competences created the modern civilisation, condition its existence, and constitute the main factors of development. In a time when experiments are replaced by procedures and appearances count more than facts, this mission is fundamental.

Our priorities are:

• creativity that changes the trajectory of the future,
• professionalism and hard skills, which determine the way the technosphere works,
• partnership-like interaction with the environment, which strengthens the results of actions and facilitates their achievement.

Inside, we focus the activity and creativity of employees and students alike, enabling them to fulfil a wide range of life aspirations. We are a place where technical, scientific, and civilisation-related issues are brought to light, discussed, and solved. We are a structure based on trust and responding firmly to the violation of trust.

The most important thing about every university is the people. There are currently 21 thousand students and 436 doctoral students (including 311 people at the Doctoral School) pursuing their degree programmes under the supervision of nearly 2200 academic teachers at WUST’s 13 faculties and three branches. We also have over 1,100 foreign students (including 800 on full-cycle programmes) from 69 countries around the world.

Students can choose from 60 different fields of study under the first and second cycle degree programmes, many of which are delivered in English. Our educational offer allows students to learn according to standard curricula as well as under individual educational programmes. We maintain contacts with several teaching and research institutions around the world to ensure programmes allowing the obtainment of double degrees.

Wrocław University of Science and Technology units responsible for conducting scientific research are the Departments, whose number currently amounts to 74. Our scientists carry out their research in twelve disciplines within three fields:

• engineering and technology,
• strict and natural sciences,
• social sciences.

Each year, a number of our original technical solutions, patents, inventions, and technologies used in industry obtain patent protection. Over the past ten years alone, we have been granted 1,283 patents, in which respect we are the national leader.
The university has 887 educational laboratories, 175 research laboratories, and 13 accredited laboratories.