This is a list of universities and colleges in Slovakia.

Terminology

The Slovak term "vysoká škola" ("school of higher education", literally "high school", compare the German name ''

Hochschule ' (, plural: ') is the generic term in German for institutions of higher education, corresponding to ''universities'' and ''colleges'' in English. The term ''Universität'' (plural: ''Universitäten'') is reserved for institutions with the right t ...

''), which for lack of other expressions is also translated into English as "college", can refer to all schools of higher (i.e. tertiary) education, or in a narrower sense only to those schools of higher education that are not universities. For an explanation of the terms public/state/private school see

Education in Slovakia Education in Slovakia consists of a free education system based on 10 years of compulsory school attendance. General characteristics Most schools, especially universities, are owned by the state, though since the 1990s there are also church-owne ...

Current schools of higher education

''The schools are ordered by the name of their seat.''

Public schools of higher education

Matej Bel University Matej Bel University (commonly referred as Matej Bel or UMB), ( sk, Univerzita Mateja Bela) is a public research university in the central Slovak town of Banská Bystrica. The university was established in 1992. It bears the name of Matthias B ...

in Banská Bystrica * Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica *

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) ( sk, Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave) is the biggest and oldest university of technology in Slovakia. In the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities it was ranked in the fir ...

Comenius University Comenius University in Bratislava ( sk, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave) is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is name ...

in Bratislava *

University of Economics in Bratislava The University of Economics in Bratislava ( sk, Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislave) is the oldest university of economics in Slovakia. History The university was established in 1940 as a private university under the name Vysoká obchodná škol ...

* Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava *

Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava The Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava ( sk, Vysoká škola múzických umení v Bratislave, abbr. VŠMU) is a university founded on June 9, 1949. The university consists of three faculties: *''Theatre Faculty'' (Acting, Directing, Dramat ...

Selye János University J. Selye University ( hu, Selye János Egyetem, sk, Univerzita J. Selyeho) is the only Hungarian-language university in Slovakia. It was established in 2004 in Komárno (Hungarian: ''(Rév)Komárom'') and it has three faculties. It is named afte ...

in Komárno – the only Hungarian language school of higher education in Slovakia *

University of Veterinary Medicine in Košice A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice ( Slovak ''Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach'') is a university located in Košice, Slovakia. It was founded in 1959 and is organized into five faculties. The university is named after P ...

in Košice *

Technical University of Košice Technical University of Košice (Slovak: ''Technická univerzita v Košiciach'') is the second largest university of technology in Slovakia. University structure * Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnology, * Faculty of Ma ...

University of Constantinus the Philosopher Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra ( sk, Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre) is a co-educational public university in Nitra, located in southwestern Slovakia. It is a modern educational, scientific and artistic research inst ...

in Nitra * Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra *

University of Prešov The University of Prešov ( sk, Prešovská univerzita v Prešove) is the only public university in the Prešov self-governing region of Slovakia. It focuses on the areas of social, natural, and theological sciences, sport, arts, management, and ...

in Prešov *

Catholic University in Ružomberok Catholic University in Ružomberok (CU) is a public university with religious character. The Conference of Slovak Bishops and National Council of the Slovak Republic took part in its foundation in 2000. CU performs its activities especially in t ...

University of Trnava The University of Trnava (in Trnava) ( sk, Trnavská univerzita v Trnave) is one of the oldest universities in Slovakia. It is based in Trnava, in the west of Slovakia. Historical university The original Jesuit university was founded in 1635 by ...

in Trnava * University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius of Trnava * Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín in Trenčín *

Technical University in Zvolen Technical University in Zvolen or Technická univerzita vo Zvolene is a public university located in Zvolen, Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked countr ...

University of Žilina The University of Žilina was established on 1 October 1953 as the College of Railways in Prague. In 1959, the institution changed its name to the University of Transport and moved to Žilina. As a result of the increasing role of communications ...

in Žilina

State schools of higher education

Police Academy in Bratislava The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and th ...

Slovak Medical University The Slovak Medical University in Bratislava - SMU ( sk, Slovenská zdravotnícka univerzita v Bratislave) is a state "college of university type" seated in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was created by law from 25 June 2002 with effect from 1 September ...

in Bratislava *

Armed Forces Academy of General Milan Rastislav Štefánik The Armed Forces Academy of General Milan Rastislav Štefánik, located in Liptovský Mikuláš, is Slovakia's only Military academy. It was originally established in 1945, right after the end of World War II, first as a High School and from 197 ...

in Liptovský Mikuláš

Private schools of higher education

College of International and Public Relations Prague The College of International and Public Relations Prague (in Czech: Vysoká škola mezinárodních a veřejných vztahů Praha) is a private university in Prague, specializing in bachelor's and master's degrees in international and public relations ...

Bratislava School of Law The Pan-European University (PEVŠ) is a private university based in Bratislava. Its founding in 2004 as the Bratislava University of Law was mainly due to its co-founder and co-owner Ján Čarnogurský. The school gradually expanded the number o ...

Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts The Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (BISLA), located in the Old Town of Bratislava, Slovakia, is the first liberal arts college in Central Europe Central Europe is an area of Europe between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, ...

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BISLA The Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (BISLA), located in the Old Town of Bratislava, Slovakia, is the first liberal arts college in Central Europe Central Europe is an area of Europe between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, ba ...

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School of Economics and Management in Public Administration in Bratislava A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compuls ...

* Dubnica Technology Institute in Dubnica nad Váhom * St. Elizabeth College of Health and Social Work in Bratislava, n. o. *

Security Management College in Košice Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) caused by others, by restraining the freedom of others to act. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be of persons and social ...

International Business College ISM Slovakia in Prešov International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ...

* Danubius University * College of Management in Trenčín – a subsidiary of the foreign City University * Ján Albrecht Music and Art Academy in Banská Štiavnica * DSA - Deutsch-Slowakische Akademien

Historical schools of higher education

''Chronological development of (known) schools of higher education up to the present'' *cca. 864–885:

Great Moravian Academy Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" *Artel Great (born ...

(probably in Devín) * 1465–1491:

Universitas Istropolitana The Universitas Istropolitana (since the 16th century frequently – but incorrectly – referred to as Academia Istropolitana) in Bratislava ( hu, Pozsony / german: Pressburg) was arguably the third university to be found in the Kingdom of Hungar ...

( Academia Istropolitana) * 1635–1777:

(1777 moved to Buda, 1786 to Pest) * 1657–1777/1921:

University of Košice A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

(1777-1850 turned to a Royal Academy, 1850-1921 to a Law Academy) * 1667–early 20th century: Prešov Collegium * 1763-1919:

Mining and Forestry Academy Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic vi ...

in Banská Štiavnica (1919 moved to Sopron, Hungary) * 1768-1776:

Collegium oeconomicum A (plural ), or college, was any association in ancient Rome that acted as a legal entity. Following the passage of the ''Lex Julia'' during the reign of Julius Caesar as Consul and Dictator of the Roman Republic (49–44 BC), and their reaf ...

in Senec * 1777-1912: Royal Academy (in

Trnava Trnava (, german: Tyrnau; hu, Nagyszombat, also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia, to the northeast of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of a ''kraj'' ( Trnava Region) and of an '' okres'' ( T ...

first, 1784 moved to Bratislava, 1850 – 1912 called Imperial and Royal Academy, 1912 part of the Elizabethan University-see below) * 1860-1919: Law Academy in Prešov * 1880-?: Greek Catholic Academy of Divinity in Prešov * 1882-?: Evangelic Lutheran Theological Academy in Prešov * 1892-?:

Evangelic Lutheran Theological Academy in Bratislava Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual exper ...

* 1906 - 1918:

Agricultural Academy The Agricultural Academy ( bg, Селскостопанска академия) is an organization with headquarters in Sofia, Bulgaria, for scientific research, for applied, service and support activities in the field of agriculture, animal h ...

in Košice * 1912-1919: Elizabethan University in Bratislava * since 1919:

(1939-1954 called Slovak University) * since 1937:

Slovak University of Technology Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) ( sk, Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave) is the biggest and oldest university of technology in Slovakia. In the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities it was ranked in the fi ...

(initially called Slovak College of Technology, 1938 moved to Martin, 1939 to Bratislava) * since 1940: University of Economics (1940-1945 called Commercial College, 1945-1949 Slovak Commercial College, 1949 – 1952 College of Economic Sciences, 1952 – 1990s Economic College) * 1946 – 1952: College of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering in Košice (1952 divided to the College of Agriculture in Nitra and the College of Forestry and Wood Processing in Zvolen) * since 1949: College/Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava * since 1949: College/Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava * since 1952:

(initially called College of Technology) * since 1952: Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (initially called College of Agriculture in Nitra, in 1992 part of the Nitra University) * since 1952:

(initially called College of Forestry and Wood Processing in Zvolen) * od 1959/1992:

in Nitra (1959-1964 a pedagogical institute, 1964 – 1992 an independent Pedagogical Faculty, in 1992 part of Nitra University, 1992-1996 called Pedagogical College) * od 1960:

(initially called College of Transportation, 1979 – 1990s College of Transportation and Communications) * 1953 – 1959:

Pedagogical College in Bratislava Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken a ...

(1959 again part of the Comenius University) * since 1959:

in Košice (it arose from a subsidiary of the Faculty of Medicine of the Comenius University in 1948) * 1969 – (?)1974: so-called University of November 17 in Bratislava (a subsidiary of the university of the same name in Prague) * 1969(?) – (?)1990:

Military Political Academy of Klement Gottwald A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...

(until 1972 a political faculty of the Military Academy of Klement Gottwald, 1969 moved from ? to Bratislava) * 1970 – (?)1990: an independent faculty of the Political College in Prague established by the Central Committee of the

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( Czech and Slovak: ''Komunistická strana Československa'', KSČ) was a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992. It was a member of the Comint ...

* since 1970:

(initially called Veterinary College, it arose from a faculty of the College of Agriculture that stayed in Košice after the College of Agriculture and Forestry Engineering has been abolished.) * 1973 – 1990: Faculty of Investigation of the ŠtB (a KGB equivalent) in Bratislava of the College of National Security Corps (i.e. police academy) based in Prague (in 1990 a part of the employees switched to the Institute for Education and Teaching of the Federal Ministry of the Interion, see also below since 1992) * since 1991: City University, Bellevue, USA (grants diplomas accredited in the US, not in Slovakia) * since 1991/92: University of Matej Bel in Banská Bystrica (arose from an independent Pedagogical Faculty founded in 1959 and from a faculty of the University of Economics having been active in Banská Bystrica since 1973) * since 1992: (the new)

* 1 July 1992 – 11 Dec. 1992:

Nitra University Nitra (; also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia, situated at the foot of Zobor Mountain in the valley of the river Nitra. It is located 95 km east of Bratislava. With a population of about 78,353, it is the fifth l ...

(arose through a - temporary - merge of the Pedagogical Faculty in Nitra and of the College of Agriculture in Nitra) * 2005-2021:

University of Central Europe The University of Central Europe (in Slovak Stredoeurópska vysoká škola v Skalici (SEVŠ)) was a private university located in Skalica. The university was founded in 2005 with the ambition to become a "Slovak Cambridge", but struggled with ...

in Skalica * since 1992:

* since 1993: General Milan Rastislav Štefánik Armed Forces Academy in Liptovský Mikuláš (until 2004 called the Military Academy in Liptovský Mikuláš) * since ? - 2004: General Milan Rastislav Štefánik Air Force Academy in Košice (until 1993 called Air Force College of the Slovak National Uprising in Košice, in 2004 merged with the University of Technology in Košice) * since 1997: University of St. Cyril and Methodius of Trnava * since 1997: Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín in Trenčín (until 2002 called the University of Trenčín (?)) * since 1997: Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica * since 1997:

in Prešov (arose by splitting from the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University) * since 1999: College of Management in Trenčín * since 2000:

(arose from the Religions Teacher's Faculty of the University of Žilina, which had been created within the Trnava University in 1996 from a pedagogical institute and made part of the University of Žilina in 1997) * since 2002:

in Bratislava (it arose from the Slovak Postgraduate Academy founded in ?) * od 2003: St. Elizabeth College of Health and Social Work, n. o. * since 2004:

Ján Selye University J. Selye University ( hu, Selye János Egyetem, sk, Univerzita J. Selyeho) is the only Hungarian-language university in Slovakia. It was established in 2004 in Komárno (Hungarian: ''(Rév)Komárom'') and it has three faculties. It is named afte ...

in Komárno (a Hungarian language university) * since 2004:

Bratislava College of Law The Pan-European University (PEVŠ) is a private university based in Bratislava. Its founding in 2004 as the Bratislava University of Law was mainly due to its co-founder and co-owner Ján Čarnogurský. The school gradually expanded the number o ...

* since 2004: College of Public Administration Economics and Management in Bratislava * since 2005:

College in Sládkovičovo A college (Latin: ''collegium'') is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offerin ...

* since 2005:

* since 2006: Dubnica Technology Institute in Dubnica nad Váhom * since 2006:

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