University of Žilina

University of Žilina
founding	1953
Sponsorship	state
place	Žilina , Slovakia
Rector	Jozef Jandačka
Students	approx. 8,800 (2017)
Employee	approx. 1,500 (2017)
Website	www.uniza.sk

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The Žilina University in Žilina , in Slovak Žilinská univerzita v Žiline ( UNIZA for short ), is a public university in the Slovak city ​​of Žilina with around 8,800 students and 1,500 employees (2017).

The Žilina University in Žilina was split off from the Czech Technical University in Prague on October 1, 1953 as the University of Railways . In 1959 it was renamed the School of Transport and on September 6, 1960, it was moved from Prague to Žilina. The university was later called the University for Transport and Information Science . It was given its current name in 1996 when the government of the time created several new universities in Slovakia.

Faculties

The Žilina University in Žilina is divided into 7 faculties:

• Faculty of Civil Engineering
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Faculty of Management and Computer Science
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Faculty of Humanities
• Faculty for Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications
• Faculty of Security Technology
• Research Institute for High Mountain Biology

Web links

Commons : University of Žilina  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the University of Žilina