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The Wroc?aw University of Economics
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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 80Â 151
fax: +48 71Â 367 27 84
Erasmus Staff
Marianna Patalas
Marta Walesiak
building G, room 211
phone: +48 71 36 80Â 131
fax: +48 71 36 80 131