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...

Cracow University of Technology is a public university with over 60 years of academic tradition. At present CUT offers 19 courses within seven faculties:
Architecture
architecture and urban design, landscape architecture
Physics, Mathematics...

University of Agriculture in Krakow is a state higher education institution. It emerged from the Jagiellonian University – the oldest one in Poland and has been operating as an independent scientific and higher education institution since 1953.
The University provides education...

When Pope John Paul II transformed the Faculty of Theology in Cracow into a three-faculty academy in 1981, the events in the Gdańsk Shipyards of August 1980 and the emergence of the Solidarity movement had already been part of history. Despite this, the Communist regime tried hard to destroy our...

The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1872 and was known initially as the Academy of Arts and Sciences. The present name was taken in 1919 when Poland regained its independence. Till 1952, with an obvious break during the German occupation when the Academy did not work, PAU played...

Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) is a corporation of eminent scientists and plays the role of a research organization composed of 76 research institutes. 54 Members of PAS residing in Krakow form the Krakow Branch of PAS, where 11 research institutes and 13 research laboratories are located. These...

The Institute of Nuclear Physics, located at Bronowice, now within the Krakow city area, was established in 1955 by Professor Henryk Niewodniczański, a leading Polish physicist whose scientific interests ranged from atomic optics to nuclear physics. Over the last 53 years of the...