The university in numbers

The University provides education in six faculties and a branch, with 58 fields of study in almost all academic disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, medical and health sciences, sciences and life sciences, and the arts.

Faculties and branches

University-wide and inter-faculty units

Employees

Staffing levels at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce as at 1 July 2022 are:

• 1595 people, including 1004 academic teachers and
• 591 employyes who are non-academic staff.

Academic teachers	Amount
Professor	83
Habilitated doctor	241
PhD	453
Master	161
Doctor	66
Total	1004

Studies, students and doctoral students

• Total number of students: 9 751 (as of 1.06.2023)
  - full-time, first, second and long cycle master studies: 6743
  - part-time, first, second and long cycle master studies: 2737
  - foreign students: 365
• Number of first-year students:
  - full-time, first-cycle and long-cycle master studies: 1673
  - part-time, first-cycle and long-cycle master studies: 648
  - full-time, second-cycle: 599
  - part-time, second-cycle: 228
• Total number of doctoral students: 185
  - full-time, third-cycle studies: 126
  - part-time, third-cycle studies: 59
  - foreign doctoral students: 9
• Number of powers to confer degrees:
  - habilitation: 4
  - doctoral: 13
• Number of programmes: 58
• Number of curricula: 105
• Total Doctoral School: 50
  - foreigners: 12
• Number of postgraduate students: 114

• Students are active in 86 scientific associations

Student dormitories:

• 5 student dormitories in Kielce

• Erasmus+ student exchanges:
• The total number of Erasmus beneficiaries between 2006 and 2014 was 502, including: 270 students for studies 49 students for internships 183 lecturers

University of the Union

The most important projects carried out by the JKU between 2004 and 2019

Thanks to the support of EU funds, the University Campus on Świętokrzyska Street was built. In the first stage, the building G of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences was constructed (project value 43 million PLN). Phase II is the construction of the University Library, the Foreign Language Centre and ICT infrastructure with a total value of PLN 160 million.

As part of a project with the Swietokrzyska University of Technology (value: PLN 44 million), laboratories at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences were modernised.

A Centre for Arts Education (value: PLN 10 million) has been built next to the Faculty of Pedagogy and Arts building.

In the following years, the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business is being built on the Campus, where, among other things, the Academic Career Office (value: PLN 22.3 million) will have its headquarters.

Expansion of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is underway at the complex on Aleja IX Wieków Kielc. The most important projects carried out there are MEDIC, MEDREH, MEDPAT and medical simulation centres for doctors and nurses and midwives. The value of all projects is PLN 130 million. Some of these are still being implemented.

Thanks to EU support, a Centre for Rehabilitation and Sport at the JKU Campus was built in 2015 with a value of PLN 11 million. To date, the university has not had its own sports facilities.

Thanks to the EU funds, the buildings of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Arts and the Rector's Office of the JKU were thermo-modernised - (the total cost is PLN 7.5 million)

Science and research

The university carries out many scientific and research projects. Thanks to EU funding, projects were implemented to improve the quality of education. New faculties have been created, including biotechnology and design. There has been funding for in-service teacher training and projects aimed at students. One of the major projects on a nationwide scale was the Diagnosis of Polish six-year-olds (2007), the results of which formed the basis for the reform of Polish schooling. Great support is also given to university graduates who, thanks to EU funding, are given internships and traineeships to help them find their way in the labour market.

Research and its commercialisation for the needs of local companies and institutions is a key task carried out at the Jan Kochanowski University. Our researchers win numerous grants, projects and research programmes on a regional, national and international scale. The Jan Kochanowski University is present both for research into the history of the shrine and the monuments of Holy Cross, and for research into proton, hadron and nucleus collisions at the CERN laboratories near Geneva. We have a research station at the Paradise Cave and are creating a Botanical Garden near Karczówka in Kielce.

List of fields of study conducted at the Jan Kochanowski University:

Faculty of Humanities:

• Journalism and Social Communication
• English philology
• German Philology
• Russian Philology
• Polish philology
• History
• General Logopaedics
• Applied linguistics

Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences

• Biology
• Biotechnology
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Geography
• Mathematics
• Environmental protection
• Tourism and recreation

Collegium Medicum

• Dietetics
• Physiotherapy
• Medical programme (also in English)
• Cosmetology
• Nursing
• Obstetrics
• Emergency medical services
• Physical education
• Public health

Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology

• Pedagogy
• Pre-school and early childhood pedagogy
• Social work
• Psychology

Faculty of Arts

• Artistic education in the musical arts
• Visual arts
• Design

Faculty of Law and Social Sciences

• Administration
• National security
• Economy
• Finance and accounting
• Applied criminology
• Logistics
• Political science
• Law
• International relations
• Scandinavian studies (in English)
• Management

Branch in Sandomierz

• English philology
• Cosmetology
• Mechatronics
• Pedagogy
• Administration

Update: (01.06.2023)

• Centre for Teacher Education