Częstochowa University of Technology (Polish: Politechnika Częstochowska, PCz) is the largest and oldest institution of higher education in Częstochowa, Poland.
All faculties of the university have the right to grant doctoral degrees (currently over 300 post-graduate students), and three of them also offer PhD habilitation.
[2] The university was founded in 1949 as the School of Engineering (Szkoła Inżynierska).
The university employs over 1,400 staff, including 840 academic teachers, out of whom 165 are independent scientific researchers.
For over 9 years the university is home to an academic choir Collegium Cantorum and an Academic Sports Association (Akademicki Związek Sportowy) with 13 different sports divisions.