universities, depending on the university's policies on transfer credits. The only university in Singapore with the term "institute of technology", most notably the Singapore Institute of Technology were developed in 2009 as an option for Polytechnic graduates who desire to pursue a bachelor's degree. Other technological university in Singapore includes the Nanyang Technological University and the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Slovakia Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava The world's first institution of technology or technical university with tertiary technical education is the Banská Akadémia in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia, founded in 1735, Academy since December 13, 1762 established by queen Maria Theresa in order to train specialists of silver and gold mining and metallurgy in neighbourhood. Teaching started in 1764. Later the department of Mathematics, Mechanics and Hydraulics and department of Forestry were settled. University buildings are still at their place today and are used for teaching. University has launched the first book of electrotechnics in the world. Technical University of Košice University of Žilina Technical University in Zvolen Trenčín University in Trenčín Dubnica Technology Institute South Africa In South Africa, there was a division has existed in South Africa between universities and technikons (polytechnics), as well between institutions servicing particular racial and language groupings. By the mid-2000s, former technikons have either been merged with traditional universities to form comprehensive universities or have become universities of technology; however, the universities of technology have not to date acquired all of the traditional rights and privileges of a university (such as the ability to confer a wide range of degrees). Spain Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Universitat Politècnica de València Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena Sri Lanka University of Moratuwa Institute of Technology, University of Moratuwa University of Vocational Technology Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology Technical College Sweden KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University, Lund Luleå University of Technology, Luleå Blekinge Institute of Technology, Blekinge Switzerland Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Taiwan The question of Taiwanese college education is, the students either from high school (the aims is to go to normal college) or tech high school(the aims is to go to work or technology university), almost all of the students take the same test(the score can go to two kinds of school), and the school would not care what