Over 36 000 full-time and extramural students and more than 750 doctoral students attend courses at 15 faculties and the Multidisciplinary School of Engineering in Biomedicine. Students may choose between 50 fields and disciplines and 200 specializations whose wide variety is worth mentioning: besides traditional faculties closely related to mining and metallurgy, the UST has faculties where one may study not only computer science, telecommunications, automatics, robotics, new materials, technical physics and applied mathematics, but also management and sociology. The following new disciplines are being introduced as well: Mechatronics (the combination of electronics, mechanics and robotics), Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science and Econometrics, as well as Technical and Computer Science Education.
