Faculty of Economics

The Faculty of Economics has always been relatively independent from VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava. It was founded in 1977 and today it has approximately 5,200 students and is the biggest faculty of the University. Tuition at the Faculty is provided by 220 lecturers in addition to numerous external teachers and experts employed in industry, commerce and the public sector.

The Faculty of Economics offers a wide range of degree programmes – including Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctoral degrees – on a daily basis from the fields of economics, management, economic policy and administration, informatics and systems engineering. The Faculty also organises a number of short-term and long-term courses of lifelong education for companies, institutions and individuals.

Teaching and research activities are carried out by means of fifteen departments:

• Economics

• Management

• Marketing and Business

• Accounting, Regional Economics

• Law, European Integration

• Mathematical Methods in Economics

• Business Administration

• Public Economics, Finance

• Applied Informatics

• Systems Engineering

• National Economics

• Economics

• Journalism

• Institute of Doctoral and Managerial Studies.

The Faculty also includes the International Office and the Computer Unit.

Graduates of the Faculty of Economics go on to make careers in companies, public administration, banking and individual business activity.