Higher Education Sector (Universities)
LIST of Higher Education Institutions
According to the Act on Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), these are third‑level educational, scientific and art institutions. The major task of HEIs is to provide higher education and creative scientific research or creative artistic activity.
Based on founding and funding there are 3 types of HEIs:
1. Public Higher Education Institutions are established by law. They are funded mostly by the government. They are statutory and self-governing institutions. At present, there are 20 public HEIs in Slovakia, comprising 9 more or less traditional universities, 5 universities of technology, 3 HEIs of art and music, 1 university of economics, 1 university of veterinary medicine and pharmacy and 1 university of agriculture.
2. State Higher Education Institutions (3 HEIs) are military, police and medical schools. They are established by law and governed by the state through the respective ministries of the government. The state HEIs are fully funded from the state budget.
3. Private Higher Education Institutions (10 HEIs) need state approval issued by the Government of the Slovak Republic. They are established and funded by non-governmental institutions or founders. Most of the private HEIs provide education in the fields of economics, business, management, public administration, law, international relations, regional development, medical and social work.
HEIs can be divided into organisational units, i.e. faculty (“fakulta”; a self-governing unit with a higher level of autonomy), institute (“ústav”; governed by the respective HEI or faculty, mostly comprising more departments) and department (“katedra”).
Also, foreign HEIs established and situated in the territory of another member state of the European Union, the European Economic Area or Switzerland may provide higher education following the law of their country of origin in the territory of Slovakia once they have been granted official approval by the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic.
Public higher education institutions
State higher education institutions
Private higher education institutions
Foreign higher education institutions
List of Higher Education Institutions - HEIs are listed in alphabetical order according to the university towns. More information is available at the websites of the respective higher education institutions.
You can find more and detailed information about HEIs in Slovakia on the website www.portalvs.sk/en.
PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
BANSKÁ BYSTRICA
| Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica | www.umb.sk |
| Faculty of Arts | |
| Faculty of Economics | |
| Faculty of Education | |
| Faculty of Law | |
| Faculty of Natural Sciences | |
| Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations | |
| Faculty of Sport Science and Health | |
BRATISLAVA
| Comenius University in Bratislava | www.uniba.sk |
| Faculty of Arts | |
| Faculty of Education | |
| Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty | |
| Faculty of Law | |
| Faculty of Management | |
| Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics | |
| Faculty of Medicine | |
| Faculty of Natural Sciences | |
| Faculty of Pharmacy | |
| Faculty of Physical Education and Sport | |
| Roman Catholic Faculty of Theology | |
| Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences | |
| Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin | |
| Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava | www.stuba.sk |
| Faculty of Architecture and Design | |
| Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology | |
| Faculty of Civil Engineering | |
| Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology | |
| Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies | |
| Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava | |
| Faculty of Mechanical Engineering | |
| Institute of Management | |
| University of Economics in Bratislava | www.euba.sk |
| Faculty of Applied Languages | |
| Faculty of Business Economy in Košice | |
| Faculty of Business Management | |
| Faculty of Commerce | |
| Faculty of Economic Informatics | |
| Faculty of International Relations | |
| Faculty of Economics and Finance | |
KOMÁRNO
KOŠICE
| Technical University of Košice | www.tuke.sk |
| Faculty of Aeronautics | |
| Faculty of Arts | |
| Faculty of Civil Engineering | |
| Faculty of Economics | |
| Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics | |
| Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies in Prešov | |
| Faculty of Mechanical Engineering | |
| Faculty of Materials, Metallurgy and Recycling | |
| Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies | |
NITRA
| Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra | www.uniag.sk |
| Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources | |
| Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences | |
| Faculty of Economics and Management | |
| Faculty of Engineering | |
| Faculty of European Studies and Regional Development | |
| Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering | |
PREŠOV
| University of Prešov in Prešov | www.unipo.sk |
| Faculty of Arts | |
| Faculty of Education | |
| Faculty of Health Care | |
| Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences | |
| Faculty of Management and Business | |
| Faculty of Orthodox Theology | |
| Faculty of Sports | |
| Greek-Catholic Theological Faculty | |
RUŽOMBEROK
TRENČÍN
| Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín | www.tnuni.sk |
| Faculty of Healthcare | |
| Faculty of Industrial Technologies | |
| Faculty of Social and Economic Relations | |
| Faculty of Special Technology | |
| Department of Political Science | |
| FunGlass - Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass | |
TRNAVA
ZVOLEN
ŽILINA
| University of Žilina in Žilina | www.uniza.sk |
| Faculty of Civil Engineering | |
| Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology | |
| Faculty of Humanities | |
| Faculty of Management Science and Informatics | |
| Faculty of Mechanical Engineering | |
| Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications | |
| Faculty of Security Engineering | |
STATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
BRATISLAVA
LIPTOVSKÝ MIKULÁŠ
PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
BANSKÁ ŠTIAVNICA
BRATISLAVA
DUBNICA NAD VÁHOM
KOŠICE
PREŠOV
SLÁDKOVIČOVO
TRENČÍN
FOREIGN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN SLOVAKIA
Foreign higher education institutions provide higher education in Slovakia in accordance with the legislation of the state of their headquarters based on the permit issued by the MESRS SR. The rights and obligations of students of foreign higher education institutions are not governed by the Higher Education Act, but by the legal regulations of the country in which the institution is based. Currently, there are 6 foreign university branches operating in Slovakia.
