site.btaTechnical University of Sofia Celebrates its 80th Anniversary

The Technical University of Sofia celebrates its 80th anniversary. On October 24, 1945, the successor to the Higher Technical School in Sofia which opened its doors in 1942, was renamed the State Polytechnic. The Technical University of Sofia is considered to be the first higher technical school in Bulgaria. It laid the foundations of four different higher institutes of education that exist to the present day. These are the Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, later (in 1965) renamed the Higher Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, now known as the Technical University of Sofia, the Civil Engineering Institute, now known as the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, the Institute of Chemical Technologies and Metallurgy, now known as the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, and the Institute of Mining and Geology, now the University of Mining and Geology, all established in 1953. The Higher Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering with a decision of the National Assembly in 1995 was transformed into the Technical University of Sofia.

For 80 years the University has been preparing specialists in the field of engineering, the website of the institution reads. Hundreds of thousands of engineers have graduated from it to this day and have found jobs in their professional fields both in Bulgaria and abroad. The Technical University of Sofia has 14 faculties, several departments, one college and other units where students are trained and scientific research is conducted. The University has a branch in the city of Plovdiv with two faculties and a college and also an affiliated unit in the town of Sliven comprising one faculty and one college.