In 1953 it was transformed and renamed into the so-called Bauschule für Hoch- und Tiefbau (English: School for Construction and Civil Engineering).

According to its profile, the university's core task is to provide practice-oriented teaching that is always based on the latest technology and science.

The title was the result of the successful participation in the competition for the title Technische Hochschule among the Bavarian Universities of Applied Sciences, organized by the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts.

With its designation as a technical university, OTH Regensburg has focused its research and teaching on five key topics: The rapid increase in the number of students soon led to an extreme shortage of space.

A first solution arose in 1977 from a calculated surplus of space in the buildings already constructed for the University of Regensburg.

The University Building Authority was commissioned to permanently integrate the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and significant parts of the Faculty of Technology into the buildings of the University of Applied Sciences, which were to be rebuilt accordingly.