Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST) is a leading research and teaching center and one of the most dynamically developing technical universities in Poland founded in 1945 . The education offered by the university is strongly linked with scientific research and the needs of the economy and is consistent with standards of the European Higher Education Area. Wroclaw University of Science and Technology rates high in the annual rankings of Polish universities and is an inheritor of the intellectual and research traditions of the Lvov Polytechnic. Since the very beginning of its existence, the university has been an important center of technical education. Today, it belongs to the best technical universities in Poland – almost 23 000 students study here under the guidance of 2 287 academic teachers, at the 14 faculties in Wroclaw and three branches in Walbrzych, Jelenia Gora and Legnica.