John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

Voivodeship: lubelskie

City: Lublin

Description:

The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin is Lublin's oldest university and one of the oldest universities in Poland. It was founded in 1918 on the initiative of Fr. Idzi Radziszewski, who became the first rector. The Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) is a modern, innovative and rapidly growing university. The university, with its high quality of studies rooted in the world of values, offers its students many opportunities for professional and personal development.

Comprehensive research is conducted here, which includes not only fields characteristic of a Catholic university such as theology and philosophy, but also the humanities, legal, social, natural and exact sciences. The research programs are matched by a wide range of degree programs at all levels of study, organized both in Polish and English due to the university's growing internationalization.

The university currently has nearly 7,400 students, 66 percent of whom are women and 8.3 percent are foreigners.

Nearly 2,000 graduates left the university building last year. In the 2023/2024 academic year, nearly 3 thousand male and female students began their studies, including 251 foreigners.

The university employs 941 full-time academic staff, 49 percent of whom are women.

Prominent figures who have studied within the university's walls include Tadeusz Gocłowski, a clergyman and bishop of Gdansk, Stefan Wyszyński, a clergyman known as the "Primate of the Millennium," Marek Mendyk, a Catholic clergyman and bishop, Edmund Niziurski, a writer and screenwriter, and Julia Hartwig, a poet, translator and essayist.