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Public Higher Education Institutions

Comenius University Bratislava

Rector

prof. JUDr. Marek Števček, DrSc.

Šafárikovo námestie 6, P.O.BOX 440, 814 99 Bratislava 1, Slovak Republic

Short description

Comenius University Bratislava (CU) is a modern European university. It is the only Slovak university to be regularly placed in the international rankings of the best universities in the world. With thirteen faculties, it offers the widest selection of study programmes (currently 731) at three levels, and several of these study programmes are the only ones of their kind offered in Slovakia. There is a wide range of areas of human knowledge to choose from when studying, be it in medicine, humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, theology, and much more.

List of faculties

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Arts

Faculty of Natural Sciences

Faculty of Education

Faculty of Pharmacy

Faculty of Physical Education and Sport

Jessenius Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics

Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of Cyril and Methodius

Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty

Faculty of Management

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences

Scientific research/artistic projects

Comenius University Bratislava (CU) has achieved significant success in the area of scientific research and projects. In 2023, Michal Májek, a researcher at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of CU, was awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grant worth EUR 1.55 million for the CAPELE project, which focuses on chemical catalysis using piezoelectric materials. Comenius University received a grant of EUR 700,000 from the Horizon Europe scheme in 2023 for the BEATsep project. Its team at the Faculty of Medicine is studying changes in the blood microenvironment and the molecular mechanisms of immune and neurological disorders caused by sepsis. In 2024, the CU Science Park succeeded in the twinning scheme of the Horizon Europe programme with the FORGENOM II project, which aims to enhance scientific excellence in the field of biomedical genomics and proteomics.

Comenius University Bratislava’s strong position in Slovak science was also confirmed by the results of

VER (Verification of Excellence in Research) from 2023. A quarter of all Slovak scientific output published globally was produced by CU researchers. This trend is further confirmed by the new automatic and continuous system for rewarding outstanding scientific performance and innovation, introduced by the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic. The first round of this new subsidy was distributed in early 2025, and Comenius University received 54.10 % of the total amount.

International relations

Comenius University Bratislava (CU), as Slovakia’s foremost educational and scientific research institution, actively fosters both bilateral and multilateral international relationships, supports student and staff mobilities, as well as undertakes development projects aimed at enhancing internationalisation. In that regard, in 2024, through its International Relations Section, the University secured a project under the Recovery and Resilience Plan, titled “Audit of the Level of Internationalisation and Implementation of Internationalisation Projects of Higher Education Institutions and Research Institutions.” Additionally, the External Relations Office, in collaboration with the International Relations Office, obtained a project from the same Plan under the call for “Support for the Promotion of Higher Education Institutions Abroad.” Furthermore, the International Relations Office continued to address the needs of Ukrainian students and, in December 2024, established a partnership with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to facilitate focus group discussions across all faculties. Comenius University also enhances its international profile through active membership in various associations, most notably UNICA (the Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe), where it stands

as the sole Slovak institution represented.

CU is member of European University alliance of ten comprehensive, research-intensive universities from ten European countries – European university Network to promote equitable quality of Life, sustaInability and Global engagement through Higher education Transformation (ENLIGHT, https://enlight-eu.org/).