Koszalin is one of 19 Polish cities with a polytechnic or university, and with 18,500 students Politechnika Koszalińska accounts for 16 per cent of its population. The Koszalin University of Technology attracts many outstanding specialists and highly talented students in technical areas such as electronics, computer science, telecommunications, automatics and robotics, machine building technology, civil and environmental engineering and geodesy and cartography as well as other fields such as economics, management and marketing, and all aspects of design.