As we turn the pages of history we find out that on March 7, 1816, the institute was started as Tsisar-Royal Real School in Lemberg (Lviv). A technical school which was initiated with the help of the freshly introduced local industrial tax. In the syllabuses of the Royall School, the focus were the subjects of the natural-mathematical cycle, drawing, drawing & also on the study of new modern languages in order to maximize the reach to knowledge of the subjects beyond borders. The system royal-school educational adapted was based on German educational systems and the programs that it offered according to their local requirements. The newly built Royal School was made in a beautiful building on a street now known as Virmenska.

In 1825, by the powers of Royal Decree of the Austrian Emperor Franz I, the Tsissar-Royal Real School was updated into the Tsissar-Royal School of Technical Sciences & Trade and in the year 1835, it was turned into Tisar-Royal Real-Trade Academy, this is where the faculty of technical education was opened.

In 1844, the Tsisars-Royal Technical Academy started its operations in Lviv with technical & trade departments/faculties. At the time, it was one of the initial academic technical schools in Europe and definitely the first one in Ukraine. In 1877, when the new academic year started construction of a new building to the academy begun (in the present Stepan Bandera street) under the headship of the new rector Julian Zachariewicz, who was an accomplished architect.

Today, the university has more than 35,000 National and International students and their training is carried out in 64 bachelor’s degree areas and in 124 specialities, and 123 of those are master’s level.

The university has a teaching staff of over 2,200 people, out of which more than 320 are doctors of sciences and around 1200 are associate professors, PhD. The educational process LPNU has implemented not only involves the Doctors and Associate Professors but also scientists from scientific institutions of the National Academy of Sciences as well as from production enterprises and various well-known design institutes.