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Type
  
Public

Postgraduates
  
2173 (October 2011)

Website
  
www.tu-sofia.bg/

Total enrollment
  
9,202 (2011)

Endowment
  
20 million EUR

Undergraduates
  
7,029 (October 2011)

Established
  
1945

Location
  
Sofia, Bulgaria

Address
  
1756 Sofia, Bulgaria

Phone
  
+359 2 965 2111

Founded
  
1945

Academic staff
  
11

Technical University, Sofia

Rector
  
Prof. Georgi Mihov, Ph.D

Notable alumni
  
Rosen Plevneliev, Cyril Domuschiev, Sasha Bezuhanova, Martin Zaimov, Khristo Poshtakov

Similar
  
Sofia University, University of National and Worl, New Bulgarian University, Technical University of Varna, University of Architectu

Profiles

The Technical University (Bulgarian: Технически университет), based in Sofia, is the largest technical university in Bulgaria.

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Founded on 15 October 1945 as part of the Higher Technical School (later renamed to State Polytechnic), it is an independent institution since 1953, when the Polytechnic was divided into four separate technical institutes. It has had its present name and university status since 21 July 1995 and has 14 main faculties based in Sofia, Plovdiv and Sliven, as well as 3 additional ones with education only in foreign languages — German, English and French.

History

With Decree No 237, published in the State Gazette issue 248 from 24.10.1945, of the National Assembly of Bulgaria, a school called "State Polytechnic" is created with Mechanical engineering faculty with four divisions - mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and mining and geology.

In 1953, the State Polytechnic was split into four new higher institutes, one of which was the Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. It had two faculties - one of mechanical and one of electrical engineering.

Two years later, in 1955, the word "Higher" was added to the name.

In 1959, a faculty of Transport and Communications was formed which four years later (in 1963) was split into Faculty of Transport (existing until today) and Faculty of Radio Electronics.

The last was split into three in 1987 - Faculty of Electronic Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Telecommunications and Faculty of Computer Systems and Control all existing today. Some of the staff of the newly formed Faculty of Computer Systems and Control used to previously work in the Faculty of Automatics, which was separated from the faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1974.

The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering was only split once, in 1963, when two new faculties - of Machine Technology and of Power Engineering and Power Machines, were formed from it.

In 1991, the faculty of Management was formed.

On July 21, 1995 the current name was given - Technical University of Sofia.

Enrollment:

Campus

In Sofia, the campus consists of a total of 14 building used for studies.

Building 1 used to be army barracks and now houses the administration of the university as well as the administration, the offices of scientists and most laboratories of:

  • The faculty of Electronics Engineering and Technology
  • The faculty of Telecommunications
  • The faculty of Computer Systems and Control
  • The University Publishing House, the University Information Resources Center are also situated there. The language center is a building dedicated only to foreign language learning. Also a separate building - Sports center houses an olympic size swimming pool and a number of other sports halls.

    Faculties

    The university is divided into:

    1. main faculties in Sofia (11):
    2. Faculty of Automation
    3. Faculty of Electronic Engineering and Technology
    4. Faculty of Electrical Engineering
    5. Faculty of Power Engineering and Power Machines
    6. Faculty of Computer Systems and Control
    7. Faculty of Communications and Communications technologies
    8. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
    9. Faculty of Machine Technology
    10. Faculty of Management
    11. Faculty of Transport
    12. Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics
    13. Department of Applied Physics [1]
    14. main faculties in Plovdiv (2):
    15. Faculty of Electronics and Automation
    16. Faculty of Mechanical and Device Engineering
    17. a main faculty in Sliven:
    18. Faculty of Engineering and Pedagogy
    19. faculties with education in foreign languages in Sofia (3):
    20. Faculty of German Engineering Education and Industrial Management
    21. English Language Department of Engineering
    22. French Language Department of Electrical Engineering
    Others

    In its educational structure the Technical University of Sofia insludes as well:

    1. colleges (higher schools):
    2. United Technical College, Sofia
    3. Technical College "John Atanasov", Plovdiv
    4. College, Sliven
    5. high schools
    6. Technological School of Electronic Systems, Sofia
    7. Professional secondary school of Computer Technologies and Systems, Pravets

    References

    Technical University, Sofia Wikipedia