At the Faculties of Civil Engineering and Business and Management a distance form of study is also possible. At the beginning of the nineties, BUT made numerous contacts and started co-operation with universities abroad, particularly in Great Britain, France, Germany and Austria. Thanks to the agreements concluded the students of BUT can saty at foreign universities for short study periods. There are several foundations active at the faculties of TU Brno whose aim it is to support various student projects and activities and make it possible for talented students to study at universities abroad. The Brno University of Technology puts in considerable efforts to develop and equip libraries, buy foreign journals and databases, which available to the students and staff in the Central Libraries or in faculty libraries with reading rooms.
Considerable attention is paid to the construction of a network connecting the libraries.
All BUT first-year students will attend courses in modern information technologies. The Centre of Computing and Information services of TU Brno, which runs the university information systems, provides computing services for research workers and is engaged in the development of a computer network at TU Brno within the framework of the Metropolitan Academic Computer Network. TU Brno also comprises the Institute of Forensic Engineering, which is on the list of expert institutes of the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic. The accommodation for the students is provided by the Administration of Dormitories and Refectories. TU Brno can offer 6,700 beds in the Brno halls of residence.