Bialystok University of Technology

Voivodeship: podlaskie

City: Białystok

Bialystok Technical University, founded in 1949, is the largest technical university in northeastern Poland. Currently, there are more than 7,000 students in six faculties and 30 undergraduate and postgraduate majors. It offers engineering, bachelor's and master's degrees, covering fields such as architecture, construction, power engineering, automation and robotics, logistics, computer science, forestry, and management and service engineering. The university actively cooperates with many academic centers around the world, including Italy, Spain, Portugal and Denmark. It also runs a dual degree program with universities in China, France, Spain, Portugal, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Russia. Bialystok Technical University currently has 7,100 students, 34.9% of whom are women and 4.2% are foreigners. Last year, the university educated more than 1.7 thousand graduates. In the 2024/2025 academic year, nearly 2.6 thousand male and female students began their studies, including 57 foreigners. The university's structure employs 549 full-time academic staff, more than 43% of whom are women. Bialystok Polytechnic boasts outstanding graduates, such as Wojciech Nowicki - athlete and Olympic medalist, Zdzislaw Chmielewski - engineer and local government leader, president of Suwałki in 1990-1991, Edmund Józef Suchodolski - civil engineer, musician, bandmaster and local government leader, serving as chairman of the Podlasie Regional Assembly in 2001-2002, and Ewa Karolina Nekanda-Trepka - architect and museologist, director of the Warsaw Museum in 2012-2020.