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Facts and figures

Motto

Labore creata, labori et scientiae servio

University

University status Research University (*)
Faculties 17
Research centres 1
Degree programmes 81 (**)
Disciplines in the AGH University Doctoral School 17
Non-degree postgraduate programmes 90

* The AGH University is one of 10 higher education institutions in Poland with the status of a research university.
** in the academic year 2023/2024

Students

Students (as of December 31, 2023) 18,887
including female students 6,172
Bachelor and Master students 18,074
Doctoral students 813
Non-degree postgraduate programmes students 1,930
Student Research Clubs 140
Student organisations 31
Sports sections in the Academic Sports Association 32

Employees

Academic employees (as of December 31, 2023) 1,877     
Research employees 247
Professors 242 
Associate Professors 536
Assistant Professors 1,052  
Assistants 294
Other academic employees  79

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. the 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

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