Gdańsk University of Technology is one fo the 8 Polish universities classified in the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking. Each year, ARWU ranks over 2 000 universities and publishes a list of top 1 000 best ones. Gdańsk University of Technology was classified in the 801-900 range in 2021.Gdańsk University of Technology is the second-best research university in Poland in the ‘Initiative of Excellence - Research University’ competition of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. It is here where inventions used in Poland and around the world are created - communication with the use of eyes, an ecological medicine for osteoporosis, biodegradable materials and many more. In 2017, the European Commission granted Gdańsk Tech the right to use the prestigious HR Excellence in Research logo. Gdańsk University of Technology was thus recognized as an institution that creates some of the best working and development conditions for researchers in Europe.

The Faculty of Chemistry is one of 8 organizational units of the Gdańsk University of Technology, a technical research university with great teaching and research potential, established in 1945. The organizational units of the Faculty of Chemistry at GUT distinguished in addition to administrative units include, inter alia, 13 Departments, Laboratory of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics and Laboratory of Regenerative Biotechnology. The didactic offer of the Faculty of Chemistry is wide and varied: 8 first-cycle and 9 second-cycle fields of study, including 2 inter-faculty first and second-cycle courses and 1 inter-university first-cycle field of study. At the Faculty of Chemistry, doctoral students of the Doctoral School established at the Gdańsk University of Technology on April 18, 2019, and conducted jointly with two Gdańsk institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences - the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery (IMP PAN) and the Institute of Hydroengineering (IBW PAN), carry out their work at the Faculty of Chemistry. The Unit offers several postgraduate courses. The Faculty of Chemistry of the Gdańsk University of Technology is currently one of the largest chemical faculties in Poland, educating approximately 2,500 students and over 150 doctoral students. In addition to teaching activities, WCh undertakes numerous collaborations with business entities, and above all actively participates in the implementation of various research projects. It is worth emphasizing that the Faculty of Chemistry of the Gdańsk University of Technology obtained the A + category, which indicates the high level of research carried out at the Faculty and its high potential.