A polytechnic is a higher education institution which organizes and carries out professional courses of study, and also develops highly professional, artistic and in some cases research work. Organizational units within polytechnics are polytechnic schools. Polytechnics can also operate without polytechnic schools but with internally organized departments according to the decision of its foundation and the statutes.
Professional studies qualify a student for highly professional or artistic work.
They are organized and carried out as undergraduate studies, graduate professional studies and graduate artistic studies.