Žilinská univerzita v Žiline (Slovakia)

Žilinská univerzita v Žiline (University of Žilina) – UNIZA – with 70 years of history belongs to one of the leading educational and scientific institutions in Slovakia. It has seven faculties. The profile consists of: transport (road, railway, water, air), transport and postal services, traffic routes, transport and civil engineering, electrical engineering, telecommunications, informatics, information and communication technologies, management and marketing, mechanical engineering, materials and technologies, robotics, machinery design, energies, civil engineering, crisis and security management, civil security, fire protection, forensic engineering, applied mathematics, teaching of academic subjects, library and information science, high mountain biology.
At present there are about 7 408 students being educated at seven faculties in 169 accredited study programmes in all forms and degrees of university studies at the University. In its successful existence it has become the alma mater for almost 89 707 graduates, highly skilled professionals specialising mostly in transport and technical fields as well as management, marketing or humanities.
The University of Žilina has signed bilateral agreements with more than 60 countries worldwide, not only within Europe, but also in America (USA, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba), Asia (Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan) and Africa (South Africa). In the field of university bilateral cooperation, the university moves forward in developing with the universities, higher education institutions and other institutions concerning the scientific and educational activities. In the history of the ERASMUS programme, the University of Žilina belongs to the most active and successful Slovak universities in terms of student motilities.
Faculty of Management Science and Informatics (FRI) was founded on July 17th 1990 by approval of University Senate. It offers the study in all three levels programmes of study (Bachelor, Master and Doctoral), mostly focusing on the Informatics, Data management, Management, Bio-informatics, Intelligent information systems and Networks. All programmes are officially approved by the Accreditation Commission of the Slovak Republic.