Bachelor in Materials engineering

Tuition is 6,900 PLN per year, and applications for the Oct 2027 intake close on Sep 11, 2027.

Materials Engineering at the University of Silesia in Katowice is a bachelor's program taught in English in Katowice, Poland, running three and a half years (seven semesters) with annual tuition of 6,900 PLN. As an interdisciplinary field, materials engineering examines how a material's chemical and physical structure shapes its electrical, mechanical, optical, surface, chemical, magnetic, and thermal properties, as well as the various combinations of those properties. The program draws on a range of modern physical and chemical research techniques used to characterise both the structure and properties of materials, aiming to understand how structure influences the properties that matter most in practical technologies. This grounding allows graduates to work out methods for producing materials with precisely defined practical properties, shaping not only the design of end products but also the development of effective production and processing methods. Research within materials engineering both creates new materials and improves those already in use. The program's Materials Science speciality equips students with knowledge of recent developments in physics, chemistry, and metallurgy relevant to producing and modelling modern materials, including nanotechnologies, and graduates from this speciality gain broad functional competence across materials-related industries. Materials engineering graduates typically pursue roles such as materials scientist, quality engineer, research technician, or process development specialist across electronics, manufacturing, and advanced materials sectors, applying their combined physics, chemistry, and engineering training to both new-material research and the improvement of existing production processes throughout Poland and the European Union.