University of Wroclaw

The University of Wrocław is a public research university located in Wrocław, Poland. Founded in 1702, it is one of the oldest collegiate-level institutions of higher education in Central Europe with around 30,000 students (2012). Throughout its history it remained a great learning center of a German-speaking countries until territorial changes of Germany after World War II. Following the territorial changes of Poland after World War II academics primarily from Jan Kazimierz University of Lwów restored the university building heavily damaged and split as a result of the Siege of Breslau. The first lectures were conducted in the halls with broken windows. The University is currently the largest in Lower Silesia with over 100,000 graduates since 1945 including some 1,900 researchers among whom many received the highest awards for their contribution to the development of scientific scholarship.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the University of Wrocław produced 9 Nobel Prize winners, such as Theodor Mommsen, Philipp Lenard, Eduard Buchner, Paul Ehrlich, Fritz Haber, Friedrich Bergius, Erwin Schrödinger, Otto Stern and Max Born.

City

Wrocław

Facts & figures

• 10 Faculties and Department of Fundamental Studies
• Over 40000 students
• 1300 Doctoral Students
• Over 9000 students graduate every year

Study programmes

• BSc in Political Science
• BSc in International and European Law LLB
• BSc in Biotechnology
• BSc in European Cultures
• BSc in Antiquity and Archaeology
• BSc in Chemistry
• BSc in English Philology
• BSc in Economics and Sustainable Business
• BSc in Classics and European Identity
• MSc in Managerial Economics
• MSc in Chemistry
• MSc in International Relations-Global Studies
• MSc in Political Science
• MSc in European Studies
• MSc in Journalism and Social Communication
• MSc in Tourism
• MSc in Administration in International Organizations
• MSc in Sociology-Intercultural Mediation
• MSc in Cultural Communication
• MSc in English Philology
• MSc in Image Communication (advertising, public relations, branding)
• MSc in Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics