The Department of Electronics AGH exists since November 1st 1973, first as the Institute of Electronics at the Faculty of Mining Electrotechnology, Automatics and Electronics. In 1975 the Faculty was renamed to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics and Electronics, and in 1998 to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics. During the restructuration of the whole University in 1993 the Institute was converter to the Department of Electronics.
Since 2012 the Department of Electronics together with Department of Computer Science and Department of Telecommunications formed a new Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications.