University of Wroclaw

University of Wrocław has a rich history of more than three centuries. Founded by Leopold I Habsburg, the university evolved from a modest school run by Jesuits into one of the biggest academic institutions in Poland. At the beginning of the 19th century, the university had five faculties: philosophy, Catholic theology, evangelical theology, law, and medicine. Later, it was expanded by numerous sections, laboratories, and a natural museum, which still exists today.

After the Second World War a group of Polish professors, formerly from Lvov, started teaching and research activities at the University of Wrocław. Initially, they created the Faculties of law and administration, arts, natural sciences, agriculture, veterinary, medicine, mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Some of these Faculties were soon transformed into other universities.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the University of Wrocław produced 11 Nobel Prize winners, such as Theodor Mommsen, Philipp Lenard, Eduard Buchner, Paul Ehrlich, Fritz Haber, Friedrich Bergius, Erwin Schrödinger, Otto Stern and Max Born.

Today, the first and foremost focus of the University of Wrocław is scientific research. Our scholars have numerous links with their fellow researchers from other higher education institutions in Poland and throughout the world. The success of our researchers has been recently recognised by Polish authorities, who significantly increased funding for both equipment and research at our university by 80% compared to previous years.

Currently, the University of Wrocław is the largest university in the region and teaches over 20,000 students and around 660 doctoral students at 12 faculties. 9000 students graduate from the university every year.

The faculties run nearly 80 fields of study in firstcycle (bachelor’s) programmes, 2 fields in engineering degree programmes, 2 fields in uniform master’s programmes, and nearly 60 fields in secondcycle (master’s) programmes. We also offer more than 30 fields in English.