| Opole University | |
|---|---|
| Uniwersytet Opolski | |
| Latin: Universitas Opoliensis | |
| Established | 1994 |
| Rector | Prof. dr. Krystyna Czaja |
| Location | Opole, Poland |
| Website | www.uni.opole.pl |
Opole University (Polish: Uniwersytet Opolski) is a university in Opole. It was founded in 1994 from a merger of two other educational institutions.
It has eight faculties:
The university has 17,500 students doing 32 majors and 53 specializations. The staff members numbers 1380 - among them 203 professors and habilitated doctors and 327 doctors.
The university confers licentiate, master and doctoral degrees.
Opole University publishes the peer reviewed academic journal Economic and Environmental Studies (print: ISSN 1642-2597, online: ISSN 2081-8319), a publication which deals with economics, environment, and sustainable development, with a focus on Eastern Europe. Within the field of economics it belongs to the new institutional economics.[1] The journal is published by the University of Opole and was established in 2001. The editors-in-chief are Joachim Ahrens and Joost Platje.[1]