Facts and figures

Labore creata, labori et scientiae servio

University

University status Research University (*)
Faculties 18
Research centres 1
Degree programmes 88 (**)
Disciplines at the AGH University Doctoral School 17
Non-degree postgraduate programmes 93 (**)

* AGH University is one of 10 higher education institutions in Poland with the status of a research university.
** in the academic year 2024/2025

Students

Students (as of 31 December 2025) 21,121
Bachelor and Master students 20,212
Doctoral students 909
Non-degree postgraduate programmes students 1,735
Student Research Clubs 140
Student organisations 31
Sports sections in the Academic Sports Association 32

Employees

Academic and research employees (as of 31 December 2025) 2,362
Professors 265
Associate Professors 535
Assistant Professors 1,159
Assistants 327
Other academic employees 72

Research and science

Laboratories 800         
Research and development agreements 1000 (*)    
Patents (annually) 100 
Spin-off companies 25
UNIVERSEH partner universities 7 (**)  
General agreements with universities worldwide 300
Supercomputers 3 (***)
Main Library' traditional collection 936,002 (****)
Main Library' electronic resources 287,418 (****)

 * Our university carries out about 1,000 R&D agreements anually, 75% of which comissioned by industry.
** The UNIVERSEH consortium was established in 2020 by 5 European universities, i.e. AGH University, Université de Toulouse (France), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Germany), Luleå University of Technology (Sweden), and University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg). In 2023, two more universities joined the consortium, namely the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (Italy) and the University of Namur (Belgium).
*** Our university boasts three supercomputers: Ares, Athena, and Prometheus. In 2022, they performed over 6 million tasks with a total calculation time of over 420 million computing hours, which is over 48,716 years.
**** as of 2022