Our free monthly magazine for those visiting Cracow, ‘Welcome to Cracow & Małopolska’, has been published for almost 20 years. Both tourists and those in the city on business are thus able to find useful information about Cracow’s attractions, the relics of its past, its...

The beginnings of academia in Cracow go back as far as the end of the Piast epoch, the Piasts being the first family to rule Poland, with later family representatives founding the State of Poland in 966AD. However, it took considerable time and effort before King Casimir III the Great (Kazimierz...

There are many ways to demonstrate Cracow’s position on the scientific map of Poland, but we will use the latest and the most symbolic example. Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej (The Foundation for Polish Science) has recently selected 159 of the most talented scientists in the whole country...

An interview with Prof. Dr hab. Eng. Antoni Tajduś, Rector of AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow.
• AGH recently won a competition organised by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, in which several foreign universities...

An interview with Prof. Lech A. Bukowski, Dean of the Faculty of Management, A.G.H. University of Science and Technology.
• At present the number of places for students at Polish universities outnumber the number of possible applicants. How does your...

To study in Cracow or to visit it to participate in a conference? This is the dream of many young Poles and more and more frequently the goal of others from across Europe. Why? What is it that is at the root of this dream? Apart from the quality of the education at the local universities, the...

The monthly magazine Welcome to Cracow and Małopolska has prepared a special issue of the magazine devoted exclusively to the world of Cracow academia for 12 years. We treat it as a natural obligation of a periodical that was created and has been published for 16 years for foreign visitors to...

Professor Karol Musioł, Rector of the Jagiellonian University and President of the Council of Rectors of Cracow’s Schools of Higher Education, talks to Welcome
- Professor Musioł, what, in your opinion, is the biggest asset of Cracow as a scientific...

Studies without boundaries

The International Students Office, as the admissions office for international students of the Jagiellonian University, provides information and counselling for foreign students wishing to study at this institution.
The university...

The AGH-UST, one of the Polish best and most prestigious universities, has ranked for years with top state technical colleges. It’s the country leading institution of higher education in modern technology, rating high internationally. Also a long and rich tradition makes for the popularity of...