It is the largest technical faculty and the leading educational facility for research and development in the fields of electrical engineering and computing in Croatia.

FER owns four buildings situated in the Zagreb neighbourhood of Martinovka, Trnje.

In the academic year 2010/2011, the total number of students was about 3,800 in the undergraduate and graduate level, and about 450 in the PhD program.

In 1956, the first curriculum was formed, offering students programme called "Study of Electrical Engineering".

This involved, among other things, changing the length of the essential course set from four semesters to two semesters, the renaming of the first study program to include the term information technology, and the reworking of the program subdivisions so that they each include five specialized modules.