The Technological Physics programme was inaugurated in 1974. It involves a study period of 5 years, at the end of which students are qualified as physicist engineers. The two programmes have a common syllabus in the first three years of study, but diverge thereafter. In the 4-year physics programme, the emphasis is on the study of physics as a fundamental discipline, and many graduates of this programme go on to become school teachers of physics, while in technological physics the emphasis is on applied aspects and engineering, and in particular on high-technology industrial production. In fact transfer between the two sections is frequent, and is facilitated by the flexible syllabus, in which optional courses play an important part in the upper years of study.
