Wrocław University (WU)
About the University
We have been operating since 1702 and are one of the oldest universities in Central Europe. We build on the historical heritage of Silesia and the legacy of Austrian, Prussian, Czech and Polish culture, continuing also the traditions of the Polish universities in Lviv and Vilnius.
We hold the title of Research University as the only university in Lower Silesia and one of ten in Poland. This means that in the coming years we will receive additional funding for the implementation of the University of Wrocław project, which was awarded in the competition “Initiative of Excellence – Research University”. The project envisages many benefits for current and future students of our University, including scholarship and grant programmes, tutoring, reducing the size of class groups and expanding the offer of programmes in English, as well as the introduction of additional single-degree studies intended for particularly talented and ambitious people.
We employ the best specialists, also from foreign academic centres. We operate like a small city – our academic community amounts to 30 thousand people. At our 10 faculties (Faculty of Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Faculty of Letters, Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science) you will find a wide range of diverse fields of study – from humanities, law and social sciences, to biological, chemical and geographical sciences, as well as mathematics, computer sciences and science.
Bachelor's Degree
Master's Degree
Our Mission and strategy
All activities of the University of Wrocław are based on two fundamental values: the truth and the freedom of expression. The European character of an open and tolerant institution of higher education is emphasized by its geographic and cultural situation – on the borderland between Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany.
Our mission is to conduct and promote highest, top quality research. We maintain close relations with Wrocław and Lower Silesia. We are also open to cooperation with other institutions of higher education and domestic and foreign businesses. We desire to build a centre for scientific, intellectual and cultural life together.
We believe that a high level of education, an exchange of concepts and ideas, and multiculturalism – of students and lecturers – constitute a foundation for a civic society, for which development is the most important goal.
Strenght in numbers
- Nearly 22,000 students study at the University of Wrocław, including around 15,500 in full-time studies. More than 1 300 of them are foreigners.
- Almost 900 doctoral candidates attends doctoral studies and the Doctoral School at our university. The University of Wrocław provides doctoral training programmes in more than 20 scientific disciplines.
- Close to 150 fields of study are available to candidates wishing to study at the University of Wrocław, as many as 30 of which are taught in English.
- Nearly 4,000 people work at the university, including almost 2,000 as academic teachers and the rest as administrative staff.
- Among the academic staff we have more than 500 full professors and university professors.
- The University of Wrocław cooperates with around 800 foreign universities from nearly 40 countries around the world. We have signed around 1,100 partnership agreements with foreign higher education institutions.
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