OVERVIEW
PROFILE - SHORT DESCRIPTION
Nicolaus Copernicus University offers graduate and postgraduate courses in over 149 fields of study, including 25 doctoral programmes and 5 doctoral schools. As a result of our internationalization policy, number of foreign students is constantly rising. We can boast over 900 inter-institutional agreements within ERASMUS + exchange programmme.
Nicolaus Copernicus University, as one of 10 Polish universities, was granted the status of a research university in the first competition of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education "Excellence Initiative - Research University". The programme aims to select and support the best Polish universities, which will be able to compete successfully with foreign institutions in the coming years.
As the only university from Poland and one of ten European universities, the NCU is a member of the Young Universities for Future of Europe consortium.
Moreover, NCU was placed in several University Rankings such as ARWU, QS World University Rankings, U.S. News Best Global Universities. The above confirms high standards of education, as well as constant development.