Adam Mickiewicz University

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:39:32 +0000

Adam Mickiewicz University is one of the largest academic centers in Poland. The University currently employs nearly 3,000 teaching staff, including 301 full professors, 373 AMU professors and 897 senior lecturers. A smooth daily functioning of the University rests in the hands of about 2,000 administrative and technical staff members.

The University serves 52,000 students with 14 faculties offering BA, MA and PhD programmes. Students can choose from 190 majors. Among most popular degree courses are psychology, biotechnology, tourism, and political science. The newest programmes include film studies, sound editing, ethnolinguistics, social communication, protection of cultural heritage, and hydrobiology.

Adam Mickiewicz University cooperates with over 100 partner universities abroad.

The first institution of higher learning in Pozna?, was founded in 1519 by Bishop Jan Lubra?ski. Another institution of higher learning in Pozna? was the Jesuit College, founded in 1573. Its founder and first rector was the reverend Jakub Wujek, author of a well-known Polish translation of the Bible. On October 28th, 1611, King Sigismund III Vasa granted the Jesuit College the status of a university.

Unfortunately, the King’s decree evoked a sharp protest on the part of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow as a result of which Pope Paul V issued a bulla in which the Cracow Academy’s privileges had been reconfirmed. The Jesuit College managed to maintain a high level of academic instruction, it conferred academic degrees and continued extensive publishing activities. In 1772, Russia, Prussia and Austria accomplished the First Partition of Poland. The College was closed in 1773, following the annulment of the Jesuit Order.

Throughout the 123 years of the Prussian Partition, the idea of creating an institution of higher education in the Wielkopolska region had never vanished. Shortly after Poland had regained independence, on May 7th, 1919, the University of Pozna?, initially named the Piast University, officially inaugurated its activities. Dr. Heliodor ?wi?cicki, whose portrait opens a gallery of 27 portraits of former Rectors of the Pozna? University hanging on the walls of the Rector’s Office, was elected the first Rector of the newly-established University. In 1920, the University changed its name to that of the University of Pozna?. In the period before the Second World War, the University was organized into five faculties and offered academic education in the following disciplines: law, economy, medicine, humanities, mathematics, natural sciences, agriculture and forestry.

During World War II, the Pozna? University was closed, however the teachers and researchers did not stop working and organised the Underground University of Western Lands in Warsaw. Owing to their devotion and heroism about 2,000 students graduated from the Underground University. As the war drew to a close in February 1945, and while Pozna? was still the scene of heavy fighting, the University was re-opened. In December 1955, it was named after great Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz.

Admissions Office serving DEGREE STUDENTS: undergraduate and MA students
Prospective students

Admissions Office
Collegium Minus
ul. Wieniawskiego 1
61-712 Pozna?, PL
e-mail: dnuam@amu.edu.pl

International Office serving GUEST, EXCHANGE, SOCRATES and PhD students
Prospective students

International Office
Collegium Minus
ul. Wieniawskiego 1
61-712 Pozna?, PL

Phone: +48 61 8294435
Fax: +48 61 8294406
e-mail: dwzuam@amu.edu.pl
The year 1989, the end of communism and the rapid growth of Poland’s economy offered a great chance to Polish HEI. The number of AMU students grew from 13,000 in 1989 to 51,000 in the year 2005.

The Wroc?aw University of Economics

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:23:38 +0000

The Wroc?aw University of Economics commenced its activities in 1947 as a private, one-faculty College of Commercial Education.

The University has four faculties: Economic Sciences , Management, Computer Science and Finance, Engineering and Economics and Regional Economy and Tourism, the latter located in Jelenia Góra. Altogether it employs 784 academic teachers including 142 professors. There is strong interest in economic studies, in the current academic year 2007/2008 the University has about 17,000 students, and so far it has produced over 60,000 graduates.

The University is authorized to grant degrees, among them PhD and doctor habilitatus of economic science, organisation and management.

The University is organized into 66 departments, and the didactic process is supported by such units as the Library, the Department of Foreign Languages , the Department of Sports and Physical Education, and the Publishing House.

The main Library houses 340,000 volumes and nearly1,000 periodicals, a quarter of which are foreign. The Library operates an electronic system which catalogues and registers the lending of materials. The Publishing House produces academic publications presenting the results of research and scientific reports, conference materials, textbooks and books which are also used by students of other Universities, as well as other reference literature.

The University is equipped with a modern computer base and access to the Internet is widely available. Our University is located within a compact campus in Komandorska Street in central Wroc?aw. The Department of Regional Economy and Tourism has its own separate facilities and premises in Jelenia Góra.

Education

The University prepares highly qualified analysts and business practitioners, able to perform and to solve business problems of their own accord, within its six majors:

economics
management
finance and accountancy
international relations
management and engineering of production
computer science and econometrics.

The students can choose from 40 specializations within the range of courses offered by the faculties.

The University of Economics has introduced a system of information and controlling the realization of a program of studies according to the principles of the European system of credit points (ECTS).

Due to public demand, other forms of further education are also on offer in the form of post-graduate courses and studies in specialist areas of economics.

The courses organized by the University of Economics, which are divided into semesters, are run in one or two level systems and can be attended as full-time day courses, part-time weekend courses and in the form of evening classes. The University is authorized to run an Executive MBA Program for graduates, and is available in a Polish or English language version, and is organized in conjunction with universities from Belgium, France, Ireland, Germany and Great Britain.

While conducting the program of continous education,the university runs post-graduate courses in over fifty specialities, the list of which is constantly extended.

Curricula realized in the University include foundation subjects, general and specialist subjects and ensure full complementarity with other European universities curricula, which enables our students to participate in academic exchange and to study abroad as a part of their course. In several areas of education there is close co-operation with the ERASMUS program. Foreign graduates are also accepted here to complete their master’s and doctoral degrees.

Contact

The candidates should apply to:

Prof. Jaros?aw Witkowski
Vice Rector for International Co-operation
Wroclaw University of Economics Komandorska Street 118/120
53-345 Wroclaw
Poland
phone: +48 71 36 80 160

For further information please contact:

International Co-operation Office
Iwona Dzwilewska
phone: +48 71 36 80 151

Erasmus Institutional Coordinator:

Iwona D?wilewska
iwona.dzwilewska@ue.wroc.pl

phone: +48 71 36 80 151

fax: +48 71 367 27 84

Erasmus Staff

Marianna Patalas

Marta Walesiak

building G, room 211

erasmus@ue.wroc.pl

phone: +48 71 36 80 131

fax: +48 71 36 80 131

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