Today it is the only higher technical educational institution that provides training of all academic levels, DScs and PhDs for such regions as Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Khmelnitsky.
Thus to ensure this requirement of specialists on 11 November 1960 Ternopil Technical Faculty of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute with the extramural and evening forms of study was opened.
This allowed the experienced workers to get higher education without leaving their jobs, and Ternopil gradually transformed into a student city.
The faculty was located in the centre of the city in the building of the former women gymnasium named after Adam Mickiewicz.
At the same time the new departments of higher mathematics, descriptive geometry and graphics, technical mechanics, physics and energetics were formed.
At this time the institution prepared specialists in such important for our region fields as mechanical engineering, metal cutting tools and instruments, electrical measuring equipment.
The scientists of the affiliate executed scientific research and experimental development projects for the enterprises of not only Ternopil and Ukraine, but also the former Soviet Union (Moscow, Kaunas, Urengoy, etc.).
In October 1985, Doctor of Sciences, Professor Shabliy O.M was appointed the director of the Ternopil branch of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute.
A new laboratory was built, for the connection of the training with production the buildings at the enterprises "Vatra", Ternopil harvester-building, "Saturn" were bought.
Since April 1995, the university bears the name of the famous Ukrainian scientist and public figure Ivan Puluj.
The restructuring of the economy of the region and the necessity of providing staff for overcoming the crisis helped change the orientation of the Institute and carry out its considerable structural reconstruction.
the first regional academy CISCO and Institute of Entrepreneurship, that train specialists in the field of computer networks were created.
In 2003, the largest in the region sports and health, and social and cultural center "Polytechnic" was put into operation.
Today more than 250 foreigners study at the preparatory department and take bachelor's and master's degree in Ukrainian and English.
The 2009–2010 academic year was marked by two remarkable events in the history of the university – the 165th birthday of Ivan Puluj and the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the institution.
The reverse of the coin depicts a portrait of Ivan Puluj and his statement: "… There is no greater a respect for an intelligent man than to protect his national honor and to work faithfully without a reward for the good of his people in order to give them a better life".
In 2011, at the initiative of the university, the Scientific Park "Innovation and investment cluster of Ternopil region" (director – Khymych H.P.)
Database with subject heading list: 53 branches / 600 sources / 235 countries and territories / main materials / articles and interviews of 16000 chief executives.
In 2011, access to the electronic books of the Center of Educational Literature and the largest publisher of the scientific journals EBSCO-Publishing in the world was opened.
According to the decision of the Academic Council for the significant contribution to the development of science and education in Ukraine and fruitful cooperation with the university, this honorary title was given to the leading scientist of the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sc.D., Professor Shenderovskyi Vasyl Andriyovych (2012), well-known Ukrainian, Canadian and Swiss economist, public figure, philanthropist Bohdan Havrylyshyn (2013), world-renowned physicists, scientist, academician of the French Academy of Sciences, Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honour, Professor of Pierre and Marie Curie University Jacques Fresaro (France) (2014) and Professor Piotr Kacejko, Rector of Lublin University of Technology (2014).
This adds up to a total of approximately 5000 undergraduates, masters and PhD students who are all working towards higher-degree qualifications at the university.
There are 6 dormitories, a number of gyms, student cafeterias and buffets, as well as rooms for creative development and art activities.
All the university students have the opportunity to participate in the academic mobility programmes in Poland, Germany, the UK, France and the USA.