History
The University of Prešov in Prešov was established by Act No. 361/1996 Coll. on the division of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, effective from 1 January 1997. At the beginning, it consisted of five faculties - the Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Philosophy, the Greek Catholic Theological Faculty, the Faculty of Pedagogy and the Orthodox Theological Faculty.