Остравский технический университет

Ostrava is a mixture of events, theatres, sport, wild nightlife and a calm nature. There are many options what to do. The city hosts around 300 concerts every year within the international multi-genre festival Colours of Ostrava. The university also organises NATO days with presentations on security topics as well as military hardware and rescue equipment.

A student organisation at the Technical University of Ostrava is IAESTE. It manages international internships. Other one, AIESEC, is also in charge of student exchange programmes.

The campus houses a minigolf course, a gym, table tennis, a games room, a student club and a music classroom, as well as the Johann Palisa Observatory and Planetarium which regularly holds public observation sessions, film screenings and art exhibitions.

The Central Library offers access to a wide range of resources to support teaching, learning and research at VŠB-TU Ostrava. It contains  some 400,000 items - books, periodicals, standards, theses and dissertation, and other material.

Wireless Local Area Network offers the students internet connection with their laptop computers anywhere on campus. There are computer rooms in the Halls of residence area as well as in the University buildings for students.

University Hotel Garni offers accommodation as well as catering services. Housing and social facilities include:

• accommodation in 1- and 2- bed rooms and evenly in apartment equipped with high standard furniture;
• capacity of 3000 persons during summertime vacations and besides summertime vacations 115 persons;
• standard equipment full social facilities within either of rooms, gymnasiums, gyms boosters, table tennis halls, tennis courts, minigolf, hothouse, hairdressing, cosmetics, massages;
• lecture halls, halls for personnel and university staff training, a hall equipped with amenities; lounges, night club, a wine bar;
• low-prices and high standards offerings.

Prices vary from 165 CZK to 1400 CZK depending on the type of accommodation and duration of staying. Thus, in average, accommodation at VŠB dormitory costs 70 – 106 CZK or € 2.6 – 4 per day.

The Career Centre helps job applicants, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava both students and graduates, to realize their professional potential, find out how to launch their careers and what to care about when choosing an employer. The centre also offers a great piece of training such as in soft skills, for example argumentation techniques, stress control or presentation skills.

Prices for those studying in English depend on the level of a programme: bachelor theirs are 3500 EUR per year, masters are about 4000 EUR per year, for PhDs are 3500 EUR per year.

Besides as every student has different needs and requirements each has different cost of living. In average expenses as food, accommodation and transportation are about EUR 250 - 350 per month.

VŠB–Technical University of Ostrava was founded in 1849 and since has  grown into a modern institution of higher learning offering the highest levels of education in technical and economic spheres, based on the interconnection of science, research, education, and the creative activity that binds and enhances them. Ostrava has long been a hub of major industry in central Europe, and study and research at VŠB-TUO is informed by historically close ties with major international companies, as well as by joint research and mobility programmes with university partners the world over. 

VŠB-TUO is the fourth largest university in Czech Republic with over 22,000 students studying in bachelor’s, master’s and PhD programs in seven faculties and two all-University study programmes. In November 2011 VŠB-TUO was awarded the prestigious ECTS Label, a mark of the credit system in bachelor and master study programmes quality implementation according to European standards. 

The University cooperates with educational and research institutions worldwide: from joint research programmes with universities in the U.S. to cooperative degree and exchange programmes in Europe, Japan, China. Beyond VŠB-TUO holds international education as a priority which diversifies and strengthens not only a student body but the University as a whole.

The research at the Technical University of Ostrava focuses on raw materials, energy and environmental sciences, computer sciences and information technologies, new materials, structures and technologies, modern engineering, safety technologies, modelling of economic and financial processes - especially research and development intensity and intellectual property protection.

VŠB-TUO is a modern institution of higher education providing tertiary education in technical and economic sciences. University offers foreign students a wide range of study programmes and courses in bachelor’s, master’s and PhD levels. 

The university courses are organised in eight faculties: 

• Economics;
• Metallurgy and Materials Engineering;
• Electrical Engineering;
• Computer Science;
• Mining and Geology;
• Civil Engineering;
• Safety Engineering;
• Mechanical Engineering.