Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava

Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave
Highrise of the Faculty of Civil Engineering
Type	Public
Established	1937
Rector	Oliver Moravčík
Students	18,375 (2010)
Address	Vazovova 5, 812 43 Bratislava 1, Slovak Republic, Europe , Bratislava , Slovak Republic
Nickname	STU
Affiliations	ERASMUS
Website	www.stuba.sk

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) (Slovak: Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave) is the biggest and oldest university of technology in Slovakia. In the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities it was ranked in the first 150 in Computer Science,^[2] the only university in central Europe in the first 200. However, it lost this position in the two following years.^[3]

University structure

• Faculty of Civil Engineering
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
• Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology
• Faculty of Architecture and Design
• Faculty of Materials Science and Technology (in Trnava)
• Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies
• Institute of Management
• Institute of Engineering Studies

European Alliance for Innovation

The Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava signed a Memorandum of Understanding^[4][5] with the European Alliance for Innovation on 3 May 2013. The signators were the president of the European Alliance for Innovation, professor Imrich Chlamtac and the rector of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Robert Redhammer.^[6]

The purpose of this cooperation is to help innovation made in the STU to reach the market, as well as create a base of operations for EAI in Central Europe.^{[citation needed]}