The VSB – Technical University of Ostrava is a polytechnics  university located in the city of Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region in Czech Republic.

The institution was founded on 23 January 1849 as the Mining Academy in Příbram. In 1894, it was promoted to university status and in 1904, it was renamed to Vysoká škola báňská. In 1945, it was moved to Ostrava, then, the centre of Czechoslovak mining industry.

Today, the university has a total of about 20,000 students and consists of the following seven faculties:

• Faculty of Economics (Czech: Ekonomická fakulta – EkF)
• Faculty of Civil Engineering (Czech: Fakulta stavební – FAST)
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (Czech: Fakulta strojní – FS)
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Czech: Fakulta elektrotechniky a informatiky – FEI)
• Faculty of Mining and Geology (Czech: Hornicko-geologická fakulta – HGF)
• Faculty of Metallurgy and Material Engineering (Czech: Fakulta materiálově-technologická – FMT)
• Faculty of Safety Engineering (Czech: Fakulta bezpečnostního inženýrství – FBI)