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Comenius University
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public university in Bratislava, Slovakia
Key facts
- Former names
- Bratislava University of Czechoslovakia Slovak University
- Type
- Public
- Academic affiliations
- Erasmus , Utrecht Network
- Budget
- € 185 million (2020)
- Rector
- Marek Števček
- Academic staff
- 2,152 (2020–2021)
- Students
- 22,817 (2020–2021)
- Undergraduates
- 10,198 (2020–2021)
- Doctoral students
- 1,884 (2020–2021)
- Website
- www .uniba .sk
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Education, Funder
- Founded
- 1919
- Location
- Bratislava, Slovakia
- Also known as
- Univerzita Komenského
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.7634.6 · ISNI 0000 0001 0940 9708
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- John Amos Comenius
- Official name
- Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
- Country
- Slovakia
- Located in
- Bratislava
- Official website
- uniba.sk
- Image
- Univerzita Komenského.jpg
- Students count
- 22536
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- topic's main category
- Category:Comenius University
- Commons category
- Comenius University in Bratislava
- category for employees of the organization
- Category:Academic staff of Comenius University
- rector
- Karol Mičieta
- inception
- 1919-00-00
- IPv4 routing prefix
- 158.195.0.0/16
- native label
- Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
- category for alumni of educational institution
- Category:Comenius University alumni
- P8168
- Mehmet Shehu
- P12749
- Aloe Blacc
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Encyclopedic overview
Comenius University Bratislava (Slovak: Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave) is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is named after Jan Amos Comenius, a 17th-century Czech teacher and philosopher.
In 2020, Comenius University had about 23,000 students and 2,500 faculty members. As are most universities in Slovakia, it is funded mostly by the government.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Comenius University” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.