Jan Evangelista Purkyne University

The University's history dates back to 1954 when the Higher Teacher Training College was set up – to become the Pedagogical Insititute in 1959, and the Pedagogical Faculty in Ústí nad Labem (1964). The University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem was set up and solemnly inaugurated on 28 September 1991, priding itself with three faculties and an Institute.

The University offers a wide variety of study programmes and specialisations focusing on the most varied areas of human activities across eight faculties:

• Faculty of Art and Design
• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of the Environment
• Faculty of Health Studies
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Social and Economic Studies

Through the offer of doctoral studies in areas such as, e.g., engineering technologies or computer methods, the University keeps attracting very talented students; for these, UJEP increasingly becomes a way towards prestigious fulfilment in areas of science, research and development, or in top management of domestic and foreign companies.

Each year, the University produces 2,000 graduates who – in the very most instances – either succeed in entering the labour market, or make their way to higher level university studies. The certainty of a perspective placement is offered by all faculties of the University which – in absolute concurrence – nurture the shaping of a favourable profile of a UJEP graduate, namely both in terms of his or her future fulfilment in the problem area studied, and in terms of his or her flexibility.