THE UNIVERSITY’S STRUCTURE T
he basic units in the Jagiellonian University are its faculties. Since 2005 Poland’s oldest University has been organised in 15 faculties, including three in its Medical College. The teaching activities of the medical faculties are financed by the Ministry of Health, while the remaining faculties receive funds from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The University’s day-to-day teaching and research is conducted by its chairs and departments, of which there are over 300. Most chairs and departments belong to the institute that conducts a given field of study. The faculties are made up of several institutes. The organisation of the Jagiellonian University has a diversified structure. Not all the faculties are composed of institutes; some consist of chairs
and departments directly, which are then responsible for teaching and research. This is true of the Faculty of Law and Administration, the Faculty of Chemistry, and the Faculty of Polish Studies. The key factor in the reputation of the Jagiellonian University is its academic staff, who conduct its teaching and research activities. At the Jagiellonian University teaching (now within the framework of the Bologna system with its first-, second-, and third-cycle programmes of study) has always been integrated with research. Its faculty members are engaged on hundreds of national and international research projects. One of the features which has fostered research is the University’s investment programme for new technologies, such as the Jagiellonian
Centre of Innovation, and the Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, which is due to open in the near future. Currently the Jagiellonian University (including its Medical College) employs 7,400 persons, nearly 4 thousand of whom are academic tutors. For many years the numbers of its full professors have been growing steadily (477 in 2005, and 532 in 2013). But there is also a rising number of employees who are not academic tutors (3,067 in 2005, to 3,472 in 2013). This is an outcome of the University’s expanding teaching and research resources, and also of the employment of new staff for its research projects.
Jacek Popiel
Vice-Rector of the Jagiellonian University for Finance and Human Resources
RECTOR Vice-Rector for Research and Structural Funds
Vice-Rector for Educational Affairs
Vice-Rector for Medical College
Vice-Rector for University Development
Vice-Rector for Human Resources and Financial Management
Administrative Chancellor
Faculty of Law and Administration Faculty of Philosophy Faculty of History Faculty of Philology Faculty of Polish Studies Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty of Chemistry Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Pharmacy Faculty of Health Sciences Faculty of Management and Social Communication Faculty of International and Political Studies 26
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Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology
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