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The Warsaw University of Technology (Polish: Politechnika Warszawska, lit. 'Varsovian Polytechnic', PW) is one of the leading institutes of technology in Poland and one of the largest Universities in Central Europe. It employs 2,553 teaching faculty, including 262 titular professors. Its 19 faculties (divisions) covering almost all fields of science and technology are located in Warsaw, except for one, which is in Płock.

The origins of Warsaw University of Technology date back to 1826, when engineering education began at the Warsaw Institute of Technology.

The Warsaw University of Technology (often referred to as Warsaw Tech) has 20,953 students (as of 2025), mostly full-time. It has about 5,000 graduates per year.

According to the 2008 Rzeczpospolita newspaper survey, engineers govern Polish companies. Warsaw Tech alumni make up the highest percentage of Polish managers and executives. Every ninth president among the top 500 corporations in Poland is a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology. It provides a basis for the performance of managers by equipping students with an education at the highest level and preparing them with the tools and information, including knowledge of foreign languages.

In 2026, Times Higher Education ranked the university within the global 1201–1500 band.

History

Polish technical universities developed differently from modern universities. The Humboldtian model of higher education incorporated institutional autonomy to protect universities from the interference of external stakeholders, especially corporate actors.. Technical institutions of various post-secondary status were closer to industry as a consequence of economic growth and industrial development. There was growing demand for highly trained specialists in engineering.

1826–1831

The origins of Polish universities of technology go back to the 18th century. They were related to either military technology or mining. For example, the extraction of coal requires complex technological processes to exploit deeper seams.

The model school of technology, a university of technology, was designed by the French, who in 1794 founded the Ecole polytechnique in Paris. At the beginning of the 19th century, technical universities were established in Prague (in 1806), Vienna (1815), and Karlsruhe (1824).

In Poland, the first multidisciplinary university of technology was the Preparatory School for the Institute of Technology, which opened on 4 January 1826. The Warsaw University of Technology still cultivates its traditions. The person who played the most important part in creating the school and writing its charter was Stanisław Staszic. Kajetan Garbiński, a mathematician and professor at Warsaw University, became the director. The school was closed in 1831, after the November Insurrection.

1898–1914

In 1898, the Technological Section of the Warsaw Society for Russian Commerce and Industry, under the direction of engineer Kazimierz Obrębowicz, raised funds to establish the Emperor Nicolas II University of Technology. Classes, with Russian as the language of instruction, started on 5 September in the building at 81 Marszałkowska Street. They were soon moved to new buildings, built especially for the institute. Bronisław Rogóyski and Stefan Szyller designed them.

On the day of its opening, the university had three faculties: Mathematics, Chemistry, as well as Engineering and Construction. In June 1902, the Faculty of Mining was opened. Poles constituted the majority of students until 1905, when their number reached 1,100.

1915–1939

After German troops entered Warsaw on 5 August 1915, they sought to gain the sympathy of Poles. They allowed the University of Warsaw and the Warsaw University of Technology to open with Polish as the language of instruction. The grand opening of both universities was held on 15 November 1915. Zygmunt Straszewicz was the first rector of the Warsaw University of Technology. World War I, along with the events surrounding the restoration of the Polish State and the Polish-Bolshevik war, did not aid the school's development. Daily lectures finally started in November 1920. The school included the faculties of Mechanics, Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Aquatic Engineering, and Geodesy (Measurment since 1925). The last three faculties were merged under the new Academic Schools Law of 13 March 1933. The Polish Cabinet issued a decree on 25 September 1933 establishing the new Faculty of Engineering.

Faculties

• Faculty of Administration and Social Science
• Faculty of Architecture
• Faculty of Automotive and Construction Machinery Engineering
• Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering
• Faculty of Chemistry
• Faculty of Civil Engineering
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology
• Faculty of Environmental Engineering
• Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography
• Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science
• Faculty of Management
• Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering
• Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
• Faculty of Mechatronics
• Faculty of Physics
• Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering
• Faculty of Transport
• WUT Business School

Płock Campus:

Faculty of Civil Engineering, Mechanics and Petrochemistry

College of Economics and Social Sciences

Transport

The transport faculty is engaged in research into the development of railway variable gauge axles which help overcome breaks of gauge, such as the SUW 2000 system and INTERGAUGE.

Notable alumni

• Jadwiga Roguska (born 1941) – art historian, architect
• Tomasz Bagiński (born 1976) – illustrator, animator and director
• Ryszard Bartel (1897–1982) – engineer
• Jerzy Barycki (born 1949) – engineer
• Mieczysław G. Bekker (1905–1989) – engineer and scientist
• Antoni Bohdziewicz (1906–1970) – screenplay writer and director
• Joanna Chmielewska (1932–2013) – novelist and screenwriter
• Zofia Garlińska-Hansen (1924–2013) – architect
• Patricia Kazadi (born 1988) – actress, singer, dancer, and television personality
• Antoni Kocjan (1902–1944) – glider constructor and Home Army soldier during World War II
• Vadim Komkov (1919–2008) – mathematician
• Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950) – engineer, mathematician and philosopher
• Bohdan Kulakowski (1942–2006) – mechanical engineer, professor at Pennsylvania State University
• Stefan Kurylowicz (1949–2011) – architect and professor of architecture
• Jan Lenica (1928–2001) – graphic designer and cartoonist

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