Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
About university
Constantine the Philosopher University (UKF) is a leading educational, scientific, and artistic institution. It is named after an important historical figure of Nitra and Slovakia—Constantine the Philosopher (Saint Cyril, 827–869). It has embarked on the path of developing the Cyril and Methodius tradition, promoting education, humanism, democracy, and tolerance. UKF is shaping itself as a modern European comprehensive university, where science, spiritual quality, high expertise, pedagogical mastery, and broad communication both internally and with the world take precedence. Its strong point lies in its extensive offering of study programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels, characterized by flexibility, innovation, and diversity.
Study programs
In addition to the traditional training of teachers for primary and secondary schools, UKF prepares future social workers, specialists for cultural institutions, political scientists, catechists, journalists, archaeologists, historians, museologists, biologists, environmentalists, mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, psychologists, gemologists, and other professionals through scientific and specialized study programs.
A unique feature of UKF is the training of teachers in the Hungarian language to meet the needs of ethnically mixed regions. The scientific potential of UKF is concentrated in unique facilities—scientific institutes and specialized laboratories—which ensure high-quality outputs of the scientific research activities of the university’s scientific and research-pedagogical staff and doctoral students, as well as fostering the professional growth of the younger generation of researchers.
Faculties
The university currently consists of five faculties:
- Faculty of Natural Sciences,
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Health Care,
- Faculty of Central European Studies,
- Faculty of Arts
- and Faculty of Education.