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 (11 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, Science, Research and Sport 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
BRATISLAVA
| Comenius University in Bratislava | www.uniba.sk |
| Faculty of Arts | |
| Faculty of Education | |
| Faculty of Evangelical Lutheran Theology | |
| 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 Sports | |
| Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of Cyril and Methodius | |
| 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 National Economy | |
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 Geotechnology | |
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 | |
| Faculty of Orthodox Theology | |
| Faculty of Sports | |
| Greek-Catholic Theological Faculty | |
RUŽOMBEROK
TRENČÍN
TRNAVA
ZVOLEN
ŽILINA
| University of Žilina in Žilina | www.uniza.sk |
| Faculty of Civil Engineering | |
| Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies | |
| 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.
| Institut Supérieur Spécialisé de la Mode (Mod'Spé Paris), France | |
