The Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (in the future, referred to as "STU") is a modern educational and scientific institution. Since its foundation in the year 1937, more than 159.000 students have graduated. On average, 13.000 students study at the STU every year.
At present, the STU consists of seven faculties based in Bratislava and Trnava. All the faculties provide a study in accredited study programs within the complex system of a bachelor, master, and Ph.D. Study. Faculties realize credit system compatible with the European credit transfer system enabling joint mobility of students within European Union member countries and a larger European space. In the area of scientific and research activities, the STU successfully joints European Union programs.
STU is a public university and offers education mainly in technical, technological, technical-economical, technical-information, and technical-artistic fields of study using modern education, laboratories, and practical training. It is aimed at the study branches with stable opportunities for students' employment in the labor market. STU offers education in foreign languages, primarily in the following areas: civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemistry and food technology, architecture.
International cooperation is a significant area based on interactive contact with educational and scientific-research institutions of countries worldwide. First of all, it is focused on the solution of the joint projects within the EU framework and other international programs, mobility of students, teaching staff, and researchers. STU system of education is connected with the prestigious partner universities in international programs, especially Erasmus+.
Today, one of the main tasks of STU is the active policy in the area of foreign students' recruitment. The number of international students at individual STU faculties has been raised several times during the past years. STU creates for the student's high-quality conditions for the study and for active use of free time. STU also fulfills its mission in further education through the preparation, organization, and assuring of further education prepared at the University's particular faculties and by the Institute of Life-Long Education of STU. The Study and Information Centres (libraries) are parts of the faculties of STU. These centers can create information, bibliographic, and documentary activity using the superior and scientific book stock for the students and university employees the right conditions for successful studies and scientific work. Apart from the faculty libraries, students can study in other libraries of Bratislava and Trnava. The University has its own university artistic ensemble Technik with three parts: a chamber orchestra, a choir, and a folklore dance group. The members of the ensemble are mostly the students of the University.
STU was the first University in the Slovak Republic, where a Careers Advisory Centre (CKP) was created as a part of the Department of Education and Student Care by a decree of the STU Management Board in 2005. The mission of the CKP is mainly to provide information on job vacancies, part-time jobs, and student-oriented products to mediate contacts between students, future university graduates, and employers to monitor the requirements of the jobs market in order to better adapt the preparation of students to the requirements of employers during the recruitment process to organize work meetings between the representatives of institutions and companies and students and relevant university staff to organize presentation meetings and discussion forums with institution representatives and students to carry out a controlled promotion of professional demand on the university web page and via informational and promotional materials.
The Slovak University of Technology offers university education in engineering disciplines. Our education system is based on scientific research and artistic, engineering, and other creative activities. Our faculties, departments, institutes, and experts cooperate directly with industrial companies and social organizations, actively participating in international cooperation. The Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava strives to be an internationally recognized and essential, research-oriented technical university. It seeks to provide high quality, internationally comparable education to a broad spectrum of students from the young generation in promising fields, based on independent and critical thinking, entrepreneurship, and creativity, with a view to practical application and success in life, and taking into account the human aspects of education and technological progress. The University aims to contribute to the economic and social development of the region.
As a research-oriented technical university, STU's mission is to achieve through scientific research, apply and disseminate new knowledge through engineering and other creative work, and educate and enlighten the young generation in the spirit of humanism principles and benevolence. Thus, STU develops harmony, knowledge, wisdom, goodness, and creativity in a person and contributes to the development of education, science, culture, and health for the good of society as a whole and, in so doing, contributes to the development of a knowledge-based society.
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