University of Białystok
Uniwersytet w Białymstoku | |
| Latin: Universitas Bialostocensis | |
| Type | Public |
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| Established | June 19, 1997 |
| Rector | Robert Ciborowski |
Administrative staff | 808 |
| Students | 7,972 (12.2023) |
| Address | Świerkowa 20B, 15-328 , , |
| Affiliations | Socrates-Erasmus |
| Website | www.uwb.edu.pl |
Building details | |
Campus in Ciołkowskiego street | |
| University rankings | |
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| Regional – Overall | |
| QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia | 180 (2022) |
The University of Bialystok is the largest university in the north-eastern region of Poland, educating in various fields of study, including humanities, social and natural sciences and mathematics. It has nine faculties, including a foreign one in Vilnius. Four faculties have been awarded the highest scientific category “A”. The University of Bialystok has the right to confer doctoral degrees in ten fields, as well as postdoctoral degrees in law, economics, chemistry, biology, history and physics.
Over 13,000 students are being educated in 31 fields of study, including doctoral studies and postgraduate studies. The university employs nearly 800 academics, almost 200 professors among them.
Every year the university carries out approximately 60 research projects, financed from domestic and foreign funds; it also benefits from the structural funds. Among the university's many accomplishments are its participation in 6th and 7th Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration, Horizon 2020, Comenius and Aspera as well as the DAPHNE III programme.