Bydgoszcz, Poland
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz
Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy
University type: universities
Status: public
Contact:
J. K. Chodkiewicza 30 street
85-064 Bydgoszcz
phone: (48 52) 341 91 08
Fax: (48 52) 341 91 07
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz is a dynamically developing
school of higher education, today the largest in the city and the
second largest in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Province, both as for number
of professors, number of majors and educational forms offered and the
number of students and graduates.
Over 700 academic staff
members share their knowledge, including about 150 professors, with
over 60 professors titular. Today a rich educational range of studies
covers 21 majors at three levels: bachelor and bachelor in engineering,
master and doctoral studies. The university also provides over 30
postgraduate courses, developing qualifications and conferring new
rights. Step by step new majors are approved by the State Accreditation
Committee.
Over the last few years our University has offered
education to about 5 thousand newly admitted students annually. At the
beginning of the present decade the total number of students was about
21 thousand. Only 1/3 of all students live in Bydgoszcz, with its
population of about 400 thousand, and over 20% of students come from
outside the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Province. Kazimierz Wielki University
has a greater and greater impact on the region and the surrounding
provinces.
Since 1997, when the Senate of the then WSP passed a
resolution on academic and research staff enhancement as well as on
developing humanities majors and accelerating the development of
mathematical and natural sciences, which would facilitate the
conversion into a university, the University has doubled its scientific
and teaching potential as well as its infrastructure. Contrary to other
Polish cities which, while creating a new university, combined the
potential of different schools of higher education, our University has
walked, on its own and in a relatively short time, quite a long way to
convert from a teacher training school to a multi-profile university of
humanities and natural sciences. We are the 18th youngest multi-profile
university in Poland. We are aware of a multitude of tasks to be
completed. In years to come, today’s UKW will become stable in the
Polish multi-profile university rankings. Professors at our University,
however, have shown themselves to be determined and effective in their
pursuits. They are credible!
Address:
Chodkiewicza 30
85-064 Bydgoszcz
Tel: (48 52) 341 92 00
Fax: (48 52) 341 35 33
