The University has large departments in physics, chemistry, engineering, economics, and English.

One of the largest departments is the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) with about 500 students in the undergraduate program and about 200 students in various graduate and PhD programs. The department has about 60 professors of which many have built their scientific career in Europe or in the USA. Owing to its origin as a former iron and steel university the university has one of the strongest departments in the field of materials science with strong international visibility and reputation particularly in the field of physical metallurgy and metal physics of the microstructures of structural and functional materials.