University of Łódź


The University of Łódź is a public research university founded in 1945 in Łódź, Poland, as a continuation of educational institutions functioning in Łódź in the interwar period — the Teacher Training Institute, the Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences and a division of the Free Polish University.
The University of Łódź is a fully accredited, state-owned, traditional university. It is one of 18 institutions of its type in Poland.
It has more than 25,000 students and 2,600 teachers.
Its international cooperation includes 385 partner institutions from all over the world.
A range of BA, MA, and postgraduate courses held in English as a language of instruction are offered to Polish and overseas students.
As a result of widespread cooperation with universities all over the world, including Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Université François – Rabelais, University of Texas at Austin, Westfälische Wilhelms – Universität Münster, University of Baltimore, the R. H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, Centria University of Applied Sciences, and the Towson University, students of the University of Łódź can graduate with dual diplomas.

Reputation

The University of Łódź strives to maintain its high academics standards, the most recent testimonies of which include:
The library of the University of Łódź is one of the biggest and most modern academic libraries in Central Europe.
Its total collection amounts to 3 million volumes. The main part of the book collection is in library store-rooms. The remaining books and journals are placed in the reference sections: the Main Reading Room and Study Rooms. Registered users can use self checkout machines for lending and returning books in some collections. Apart from the Main University Library there are 106 branch libraries and their collections are adjusted to the scientific and didactic activities of the institutions. The number of registered library card holders is now over 20,000.

Authorities

Current term :
  1. Tadeusz Kotarbiński – 1945-1949
  2. Józef Chałasiński – 1949-1952
  3. Jan Szczepański – 1952-1956
  4. Adam Szpunar – 1956-1962
  5. Stefan Hrabec – 1962-1965
  6. Józef Stanisław Piątowski – 1965-1968
  7. Andrzej Nadolski – 1968-1969
  8. Zdzisław Skwarczyński – 1969-1972
  9. Janusz Górski – 1972-1975
  10. Romuald Skowroński – 1975-1981
  11. Jerzy Wróblewski – 1981-1984
  12. Leszek Wojtczak – 1984-1990
  13. Michał Seweryński – 1990-1996
  14. Stanisław Liszewski – 1996-2002
  15. Wiesław Puś – 2002-2008
  16. Włodzimierz Nykiel - 2008-2016
  17. Antoni Różalski - 2016 -

    Faculties

The university was created after the total destruction of Warsaw, during and after the Warsaw Uprising, and after the expulsion of Poles from Lviv. One of its leading founders was Professor Teodor Vieweger of the Free Polish University. During the first year of operation, the University of Lodz admitted over 7 thousand students and it was divided into 6 Faculties, which were later divided into the present 12 Faculties. In 1998, a branch campus of the University of Lodz was created in Tomaszów Mazowiecki.

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