Koszalin University of Technology

Voivodeship: zachodniopomorskie

City: Koszalin

Description:

Koszalin University of Technology is the only polytechnic in Central Pomerania. The university was founded in 1968 as the Higher School of Engineering in Koszalin. The 1968/69 academic year began with 125 full-time students and 60 evening students.

It currently educates in 25 fields of study in technical, economic, humanities and arts. The university has an experienced staff of lecturers, a rich laboratory base and modernly equipped laboratories, an auditorium for 3,000 people, an e-learning platform, a large university library, an extensive scholarship system, a network of hot-spots and an extremely active academic community.

There are currently a silent 3,200 students at the university, 42.5 percent of whom are women, and 6.6 percent are foreigners.

676 graduates left the university building last year. In the 2023/2024 academic year, nearly 1.4 thousand male and female students began their studies, including 73 foreigners.

The university employs 299 full-time academic staff, of which more than 40.5 percent are women.

Koszalin University of Technology graduates include Andrzej Jakubowski - local government official, entrepreneur and engineer, deputy mayor of Koszalin from 2006 to 2010, deputy marshal of the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodeship from 2010 to 2014, Krzysztof Bieńkowski - politician, teacher, economist and local government official, head of the Delegation of the Mazovian Voivodeship Office in Ciechanów from 2016 to 2018, starosta of Przasnysz County from 2018 to 2023, senator of the 11th term, Slawomir Neumann - politician and local government official. Member of the Sejm of the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th terms, in 2012-2015 secretary of state in the Ministry of Health, chairman of the Civic Platform parliamentary club, or Marek Chodkiewicz - manager, controller, engineer and civil servant, in 2017-2018 undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Infrastructure and Construction, and in 2018-2019 in the Ministry of Infrastructure.