Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology (Polish

Polish language

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 name: Politechnika Krakowska) is a university

University

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 located in downtown Kraków

Kraków

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, Poland

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, established in 1946 and, as an institution of higher learning granted full autonomy in 1954.

Over 37,000 students graduated from the Polytechnic to this day with degrees. Doctorate degrees were granted to 1200 persons and Habilitated degrees - to additional 300. The number of students admitted each year reaches 4500.

Organizational structure

• Faculty of Architecture
  Architecture
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• Faculty of Electrical
  Electrical engineering
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   and Computer Engineering
  Computer engineering
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• Faculty of Civil Engineering
  Civil engineering
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• Faculty of Environmental Engineering
  Environmental engineering
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• Faculty of Chemical Engineering
  Chemical engineering
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   and Technology
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
  Mechanical engineering
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• Faculty of Physics
  Physics
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  , Mathematics
  Mathematics
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   and Computer Science
  Computer science
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Ranking

In a survey conducted by the Polish edition of Newsweek

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 in 2008, Cracow University of Technlogy was selected as the best technical university in Poland and the best among all Polish universities.

Notable alumni

• Marek Grechuta
  Marek Grechuta
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• Zdzisław Beksiński
• Tadeusz Parpan
  Tadeusz Parpan
  Tadeusz Piotr Parpan was a Polish soccer player, also a graduate of the Kraków Technical University ....
  
  
• Michał Życzkowski
• Anna Majkowska
• Michael Peter Wnuk
• Andrzej Mleczko
  Andrzej Mleczko
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See also

• List of universities in Poland
• Science and technology in Poland
  Timeline of Polish science and technology
  Education has been of prime interest to Poland's rulers since the early 12th century. The catalog of the library of the Cathedral Chapter in Kraków dating from 1110 shows that Polish scholars already then had access to western European literature. In 1364, King Kazimierz the Great founded the...