| Logo |  |
| City | Gdansk |
| Website | visit website |
| Website in English | visit website |
| Website Fac Economics | visit website |
| Website International Office | visit website |
| NN-coordinator | Joanna Bednarz (j.bednarz@ug.edu.pl) |
| International Office | Erasmus.incoming@ug.edu.pl |
| Erasmus Code | PL GDANSK01 |
| Erasmus Charta | 50023 |
Brief description
The University of Gdańsk is a dynamically developing institution of higher learning, and one that combines respect for tradition with a commitment to the new. We offer a very wide range of academic subjects, and an equally wide range of subjects that lead to professional qualifications in demand on the job market. An increasingly large proportion of students pursue their studies in state-of-the-art facilities on the University’s Baltic Campus, which is one of the largest university complexes in northern Poland.
The University of Gdańsk was founded on 20 March 1970. It was formed from an amalgamation of two institutions of higher education: the Higher Economics School in Sopot and the Higher Pedagogical School in Gdańsk. Later, it also included the Higher Teacher Training School. The precursor of the Higher Economics School in Sopot was the Higher School of Maritime Trade in Sopot, which opened in 1945 and awarded its first degrees in 1947.
Currently, the University of Gdańsk is the largest educational institution in the Pomerania region. We have eleven faculties with over thirty thousand students, doctoral students and post-graduates, who are taught by one thousand seven hundred academic staff. In such fields of study as Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Oceanography, Quantum Physics, Pedagogy, Psychology, Law and Economic Sciences, the University of Gdańsk is one of the best institutions in Poland.