[14] The university comprises eight academic faculties that provide higher education in 40 fields of study across 14 scientific disciplines.

On 16 March 1899, following a decision by Wilhelm II, deputies of the Kingdom of Prussia approved the establishment of a technical university in Gdańsk, then part of German Empire.

[2] The takeover of power in the Free City of Danzig by the Nazis in 1933 resulted in the forced retirement of older professors and the dismissal or suspension of Jewish students.

The number of students and staff decreased significantly during the war, and by 1944, the university had been converted into a 3000-bed hospital, with much of its valuable equipment and documents evacuated to Germany.

The re-establishment was supervised by Stanisław Turski [pl], a Polish mathematician and former inmate of German Nazi concentration camps.

By the late 1980s, the university had grown to include several faculties and thousands of students, continuing its development and contribution to higher education in Poland.

[3] The year 1989 marked an end of communism in Poland, with the creation of Solidarity on the Gdańsk coast playing a crucial role.

Employees, students and graduates of Gdańsk University of Technology such as Andrzej Gwiazda were actively involved in these transformative events, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Poland as a democratic state with a market economy.

[16] In response to the fall of communism in Poland, the Gdańsk University of Technology underwent significant organizational and infrastructural transformations between 1990 and 2010.

Infrastructure expansions included new laboratories and facilities funded by the European Union, such as the Nanotechnology Center, the Pomerania Center of Advanced Technologies, and modern educational spaces, alongside the introduction of three-cycle degree studies (BSc, MSc, PhD), the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS), and a quality assurance system.

Reliefs in the window niches above the Foucault pendulum show the design of a reflective sundial (on the left) and a rotating map of the sky with a sextant.

[24] The Academic Computer Centre in Gdańsk (CI TASK) has been operating since 1992 due to an agreement reached between the Tri-City's chief institutions of higher education.

The initial plan was for it to primarily serve all schools of higher education as well as local branches of the Polish Academy of Sciences.