Masaryk University in Brno

Faculty of Arts

Faculty of LawFaculty of Science

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Faculty of Social StudiesFaculty of Education

Faculty of Informatics

Faculty of Sports Studies

Campus

Rector’s office

As you can see from enumeration of faculties, Masaryk university offers degrees in a wide spectrum of traditional as well as newly-emerging disciplines and is one of the fastest growing higher education institutions in Europe.

Masaryk University was one of the first to introduce a three-tier structure of studies based on the ECTS system for the transfer and accumulation of credits.

Masaryk University is the single higher education institution in the Czech Republic to hold the European Credit Transfer System Label.

A special feature of the university is its policy with regard to students with sensory or physical disabilities.

Masaryk University in Brno

In 2005 Masaryk University’s information system received the prestigious EUNIS Elite Award in recognition of the university’s leading position in the use of information technology within the university community. It was the first university in the Czech Republic and in the new European Union member countries to win the award.

Masaryk University in BrnoMasaryk University is firmly committed to electronic forms of communication. To improve access to information and the qualityof studies it has developed its own intranet system featuring a number of tools designed for assessing tens of thousands of application forms for studies, implementing e-learning, registering students for examinations, helping staff to work more efficiently and supporting rapid communication between offices and departments.

MU in numbers

• the second largest university in the Czech Republic • the largest in Moravia• 4779 employees, of whom 2314 are academic staff • 9 faculties of more than 200 departments, institutes and clinics • It is the most selective university in the Czech Republic, in 2010 there were registered 68000 applicants for studies in all fields, of whom 24206 were admitted • 44370 students enrolled in regular degree programmes • Since 1922 Masaryk University has graduated 144043

students

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk – he stood behind the campaign to establish new university. Back in the 1880s he was already stressing the need for the widest possible variety in scientific and scholarly life, pointing out that the single Czech university then in existence - Charles University in Prague - needed a counterpart within the country

Brief history - BeginningsMasaryk University was established in 1919 (not long after the creation of an independent Czechoslovak state) with four faculties - of law, medicine, science and arts

From the beginning it took the name of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Like the other Czech universities, it was closed down on 17 November 1939 by the Nazi occupiers

During the six years of war, the university suffered incalculable losses. But even greater than the material damage was the loss of professors and other employees, of the university, the result of direct Nazi persecution. The number of professors of Masaryk University who were executed or tortured is exceptionally high. This is reflected, for example, in the fact that, as a direct consequence of the Nazi terror, the Faculty of Science lost one whole quarter of its teaching staff.

The successful renewal of university life after the end of the war was brought to a halt in 1948 with the communist putsch.

After this communist putsch the university lost its original name, becoming the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Brno.

It was only after November 1989 that the university was able to leave behind torpidity and stagnation. In 1990 it was given back Masaryk's name.

Brief history – Later period

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