Technical University of Košice

Technical University of Košice
Technická univerzita v Košiciach
Type Public
Established 1952
Rector prof. Ing. Stanislav Kmeť, CSc.
Administrative staff
 700 (educational) + 700 (site clerical)
Students 9,500 + 400 (postgraduate)
Address Letná 9, 042 00 Košice, Slovak Republic, Europe, Košice, Slovakia
Nickname TUKE
Affiliations Office of International Agreements and Projects
Website

Technical University of Košice (Slovak: Technická univerzita v Košiciach) is the second largest university of technology in Slovakia.

University structure

History of TUKE

The Technical University of Košice was founded in 1952, but its roots must be sought much deeper in the past. As early as 1657 the Universitas Cassoviensis was established in Košice, but technical education in Slovakia was only elevated to higher - education level in 1762, when the Austro-Hungarian monarch Maria Theresa established the Mining Academy in Banská Štiavnica. This provided education and promoted research activity in a group of scientific disciplines ranging from ore mining through to production and processing of metal materials.

The origins of higher technical education in Košice reach back to 1937, when the M.R.Štefánik State Technical College was established in the city. Teaching was supposed to start in the academic year 1938/39, but the pre-war events following the Vienna Arbitration caused the college to be moved first to Prešov, then to Martin and finally to Bratislava, where it remained and later formed the basis for the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava.

The true birth of the Košice Technical College came on 8 July 1952, when the Czechoslovak Government issued Directive No.30/1952 Statutes setting up three faculties, namely the Faculties of Heavy Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy. These were joined in 1969 by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and in 1978 by the Faculty of Civil Engineering. The important event of the renaming of the College into the Technical University of Košice occurred on 13 February 1991. In 1992 the Faculty of Professional Studies was set up in Prešov, which was transformed in 1996 into today’s Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies.

The year 1992 also saw the introduction of the Faculty of Economics, which meant that the University outgrew its original framework of purely technical disciplines, and it continued in this trend in 1998 with the founding of the present-day Faculty of Arts.

The Faculty of Aeronautics of the Technical University of Košice was established on 1 January 2005 as a successor of the Air Force Academy of Milan Rastislav Štefánik in Košice, which has been a prestigious educational institution in Europe and in the world providing university education for pilots and air operating personnel for over 30 years.

TUKE today

The number of students currently attending nine TUKE faculties is 9 714. Out of this number there are 8 437 full-time students (5 050 Bachelor students, 3 017 Master students and 370 Postgraduate students). More than 700 professors, associate and assistant professors work here, and the same number of research and administrative staff.

TUKE caters for a wide range of educational needs not only in the East-Slovak region, but throughout Slovakia and Central Europe, as in many specializations it is the only centre of education and research in this area. TUKE closely co-operates with other universities and with industrial organizations throughout the region and the Slovak Republic.

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    Coordinates: 48°43′53″N 21°14′41″E / 48.73139°N 21.24472°E / 48.73139; 21.24472

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