Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara

Politehnica University of Timisoara is one of the biggest and most well-known technical universities from Central and Eastern Europe. It was founded in 1920, short time after the union in one state of all the romanian territories -supervened in the context of the political redefinitions in Europe, following at the end of the First World War-, in order to respond to the need of engineers felt by the Romanian society at that time, within the economical relaunching it assumed. During its almost 90 years of existence, Politehnica University of Timisoara produced over 100 000 engineers, very appreciated both in Romania and abroad, for their competence and seriousness.
At present, Politehnica University of Timisoara has 10 faculties and 4 independent departments. 15 000 students, 850 teaching staff and 900 administrative and auxiliary staff study, respectively, work within their framework.
The studies in Politehnica University of Timisoara are organized in Bologna paradigm and comprise all the three cycles: Bachelor, Master, Doctorate.
The portfolio of specializations, the curricula and the syllabi of the Politehnica University of Timisoara are well attuned to the needs of the society, the university cultivating close relationships with it. In 2007, the societal environment mainly the large transnational companies, but also the medium and small ones beneficiated of 1 796 graduates and in 2008 will beneficiate of about 2 000.