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Public university in Bratislava, Slovakia

Comenius University Bratislava Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave Comenius University building in central Bratislava Latin: Universitas Comeniana Bratislavensis[1] Former names Bratislava University of Czechoslovakia Slovak University Type Public Established 1919 Academic affiliations Erasmus, Utrecht Network Budget € 185 million (2020) [2] Rector Marek Števček Faculty 2,152 (2020–2021)[3] Students 22,817 (2020–2021)[3] Undergraduates 10,198 (2020–2021)[3] Doctoral students 1,884 (2020–2021)[3] Location Bratislava , Slovakia 48°8′28.4″N 17°6′57.4″E / 48.141222°N 17.115944°E / 48.141222; 17.115944 Website www.uniba.sk Location in Slovakia

University rankings Global – Overall ARWU World[4] 901–1000 (2023) QS World[5] 771–780 (2024) THE World[6] 1001–1200 (2024) USNWR Global[7] =639 (2023) Regional – Overall QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[8] 58 (2022)

**Comenius University Bratislava** ([Slovak](/source/Slovak_language): *Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave*) is the largest [university](/source/University) in [Slovakia](/source/Slovakia), with most of its faculties located in [Bratislava](/source/Bratislava). It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of [Czechoslovakia](/source/Czechoslovakia). It is named after [Jan Amos Comenius](/source/John_Amos_Comenius), a 17th-century [Czech](/source/Czechs) teacher and [philosopher](/source/Philosopher).

In 2020, Comenius University had about 23,000 students and 2,500 faculty members.[3] As are most universities in Slovakia, it is funded mostly by the government.

## History

The Comenius University was established in 1919 with assistance from the more established [University of Prague](/source/Charles_University_in_Prague). It was meant to replace the former [Elisabeth University](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elisabeth_University&action=edit&redlink=1) [[sk](https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%C5%BEbet%C3%ADnska_univerzita)], which had been located in Bratislava since 1912, as the latter had been forcefully disbanded in 1919 by [Samuel Zoch](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Zoch&action=edit&redlink=1), plenipotentiary [župan](/source/%C5%BDupan) of Slovakia, after Hungarian professors refused to take an oath of allegiance[9] at that time in the [First Czechoslovak Republic](/source/First_Czechoslovak_Republic).[10] This had caused the majority of the university's professors (and some of the students) to take refuge in [Budapest](/source/Budapest), where the Elisabeth University was re-established. It was later moved to [Pécs](/source/P%C3%A9cs) and renamed to [University of Pécs](/source/University_of_P%C3%A9cs). This persecution of former (predominantly Hungarian) pillars of education in Bratislava necessitated the recruitment of [Czech](/source/Czech_people) academicians. Therefore, many [professors](/source/Professor) of the newly established university, including its first rector, Prof. MUDr. [Kristian Hynek](/source/Kristian_Hynek), were Czechs, since Slovakia at that time did not have enough educated [Slovak](/source/Slovaks) speakers who could serve as faculty members. In spite of personnel, financial, and space difficulties, the university developed research and teaching programs. The Faculty of Medicine opened in 1919, and was quickly followed by the Faculties of Law and Philosophy in 1921. The Faculty of Philosophy, besides offering programs in the [humanities](/source/Humanities) and [social sciences](/source/Social_science), also educated much-needed teachers for Slovakia's [high schools](/source/High_school).

In 1937, a new university building for the Faculties of Law and Philosophy was opened in the centre of Bratislava. The building includes the Aula (hall), used for graduation ceremonies and other formal functions.

During [World War II](/source/World_War_II), Slovakia became nominally a [republic](/source/First_Slovak_Republic) but was actually under the sway of [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany). The government reduced [academic freedoms](/source/Academic_freedom) at the university, and the Czech professors were forced out. The university was renamed *Slovak University* in 1939, though the original name was reinstated in 1954. The Faculty of Science opened in 1940 and the Roman Catholic Faculty of Theology was established in 1941. Academic freedom returned after the end of the war in 1945 but was again cancelled in 1948 as the [communists](/source/Communist) took power in [Czechoslovakia](/source/Czechoslovakia), enforcing the ideology of [Marxism-Leninism](/source/Marxism-Leninism) at Czechoslovak universities. The Roman Catholic Faculty of Theology was taken under direct control of the Ministry of Education.

However, the university continued to grow, and new faculties were established (mostly by splitting the existing faculties):

- Faculty of Education in 1946,

- Faculty of Pharmacy in 1952,

- Faculty of Physical Education and Sports in 1960,

- Faculty of Medicine in Martin in 1969,

- [Faculty of Mathematics and Physics](/source/Faculty_of_Mathematics%2C_Physics_and_Informatics) in 1980.

After the [Velvet Revolution](/source/Velvet_Revolution) in 1989, the university created a [democratic](/source/Democracy) self-government, and mandatory courses on [Marxist ideology](/source/Marxism) were abolished. The Roman Catholic Faculty of Theology and the Evangelical Theological Faculty joined the university.

The transformation of Slovakia into a market economy created a need for professionals in management and financial sciences. As a result, the university established the Faculty of Management (1991) and the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences (2002). In 2000, the [European credit transfer system](/source/European_credit_transfer_system) was implemented to improve student mobility and facilitate more ties with other European universities.

## List of faculties

This is a list of faculties of Comenius University in Bratislava with their official English names.[11]

Building of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, located in western part of Bratislava

Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in [Martin](/source/Martin%2C_Slovakia)

- Faculty of [Medicine](/source/Medicine)

- Faculty of [Law](/source/Law)

- [Faculty of Arts](/source/Faculty_of_Arts%2C_Comenius_University)

- [Faculty of Natural Sciences](/source/Faculty_of_Natural_Sciences_of_Comenius_University)

- Faculty of [Education](/source/Education)

- Faculty of [Pharmacy](/source/Pharmacy)

- Faculty of [Physical Education](/source/Physical_Education) and [Sport](/source/Sport)

- [Jessenius Faculty of Medicine](/source/Jessenius_Faculty_of_Medicine) in [Martin](/source/Martin%2C_Slovakia)

- [Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics](/source/Comenius_University_Faculty_of_Mathematics%2C_Physics_and_Informatics)

- Faculty of [Roman Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic) Theology of [Cyril and Methodius](/source/Cyril_and_Methodius)

- [Evangelical](/source/Protestantism) [Lutheran](/source/Lutheranism) [Theological](/source/Theology) Faculty

- Faculty of [Management](/source/Management)

- Faculty of [Social](/source/Sociology) and [Economic Sciences](/source/Economic_Sciences)

## Notable alumni

Main category: [Comenius University alumni](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Comenius_University_alumni)

- [Ľubomír Belák](/source/%C4%BDubom%C3%ADr_Bel%C3%A1k) – singer, musician, composer and TV producer

- [Emil Benčík](/source/Emil_Ben%C4%8D%C3%ADk) – journalist and translator

- [Zuzana Beňušková](/source/Zuzana_Be%C5%88u%C5%A1kov%C3%A1) – ethnologist

- [József Berényi](/source/J%C3%B3zsef_Ber%C3%A9nyi) – Chairman of the [Party of the Hungarian Coalition](/source/Party_of_the_Hungarian_Coalition)

- [Vladimír Fábry](/source/Vladim%C3%ADr_F%C3%A1bry) – lawyer and diplomat, personal secretary to [Dag Hammarskjöld](/source/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld)

- [Robert Fico](/source/Robert_Fico) – politician, [Prime minister of Slovakia](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Slovakia)

- [Miroslav Jenča](/source/Miroslav_Jen%C4%8Da) – diplomat and [United Nations](/source/United_Nations) official

- [Marja Holecyová](/source/Marja_Holecyov%C3%A1) - mathematician and fantasy writer

- [Eva Kolníková](/source/Eva_Koln%C3%ADkov%C3%A1) – numismatist and archaeologist

- [Rudolf Macúch](/source/Rudolf_Mac%C3%BAch) – Protestant theologian and expert on Mandaean language and Samaritan language

- [Zora Mintalová – Zubercová](/source/Zora_Mintalov%C3%A1_%E2%80%93_Zubercov%C3%A1) – ethnographer, historian and museologist

- [Milan Mišík](/source/Milan_Mi%C5%A1%C3%ADk) – geologist and university professor

- [Vladimír Palko](/source/Vladim%C3%ADr_Palko) – former [interior minister](/source/Interior_minister) of Slovakia

- [Ladislav Pataki](/source/Ladislav_Pataki) – [sports scientist](/source/Sports_scientist), [athletics](/source/Athletics_(sport)) [coach](/source/Coach_(sport)), [masters athletics](/source/Masters_athletics) champion

- [Ester Plicková](/source/Ester_Plickov%C3%A1), ethnographer

- [Julián Podoba](/source/Juli%C3%A1n_Podoba) – endocrinologist

- [Tomáš Raček](/source/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Ra%C4%8Dek) – actor and diplomat

- [Iveta Radičová](/source/Iveta_Radi%C4%8Dov%C3%A1) – former Prime minister of Slovakia

- Emire Khidayer – diplomat, entrepreneur and writer

- [Ernest Valko](/source/Ernest_Valko) – assassinated constitutional lawyer

- [Ján Vilček](/source/J%C3%A1n_Vil%C4%8Dek) – biomedical scientist, educator, inventor and philanthropist

- [Štefan Znám](/source/%C5%A0tefan_Zn%C3%A1m) – mathematician, first to ponder Znám's problem in modern mathematics

- [Miroslav Lajcak](/source/Miroslav_Laj%C4%8D%C3%A1k) – diplomat, [President of the United Nations General Assembly](/source/President_of_the_United_Nations_General_Assembly) for the [72nd session](/source/Seventy-second_session_of_the_United_Nations_General_Assembly)

- [Zuzana Čaputová](/source/Zuzana_%C4%8Caputov%C3%A1) – politician, [President of Slovakia](/source/President_of_Slovakia)

- [Lukáš Plank](/source/Luk%C3%A1%C5%A1_Plank) – award-winning [pathologist](/source/Pathologist) specializing in [hematopathology](/source/Hematopathology).

## See also

- [Utrecht Network](/source/Utrecht_Network)

- [Universitas Istropolitana](/source/Universitas_Istropolitana)

- [Jessenius Faculty of Medicine](/source/Jessenius_Faculty_of_Medicine) in Martin

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