Comenius University in Bratislava is the Slovakia’s biggest university. Most of its faculties are located in Bratislava. It was founded in the same time with the creation of the state Czechoslovakia in 1919. Comenius University has around 30,000 students and 2,000 faculty members.

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) is the most significant university of technology in Slovakia. Since its foundation in 1937 more than 115.000 students have graduated. In average, about 19.000 students study at the STU every year.

The Technical University of Kosice (TUKE) is the second largest university of technology in Slovakia. It was established in 1952, with the aims to satisfy the needs of Eastern Slovakia in education and research. Today the TUKE has nine faculties and around 16,000 students.

The Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice was founded in 1959. The university is named after a 19th century Slovak philologist, poet, and historian.
It comprise 5 different faculties: Faculty of Medicine; Faculty of Science; Faculty of Law; Faculty of Public Administration and Faculty of Arts.

The University of Economics in Bratislava (EUB) is the oldest university of economics in Slovakia, established in 1940. The University provides higher education in the field of economics and business in Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral programs for full-time and part-time students. There are currently around 13.000 students enrolled in all forms of studies.

University of Zilina is providing technological, economics, management and a limited range of humanistic and natural science education at under-graduate, graduate and post-graduate levels. 40,000 graduates have graduated from the University, 1,500 of them were from abroad. There are currently around 13.000 students enrolled in all forms of studies.

Constantine the Philosopher University (UKF) is a public university in Nitra, known for the traditions of Old Slavonic education and culture of the Great Moravia period. UKF is providing study programmes in education, arts, social, human and natural sciences and health care. With more than 14,000 full-time and part-time students, UKF belongs to the larger Slovak universities.

The Slovak University of Agriculture (SUA) is the only agricultural university in Slovakia. SUA is operating in a wide range of scientific fields such as genetics, biotechnology, agriculture, environment, food sciences, horticulture, landscape engineering and design, technology, engineering, economics, management, marketing with focus on rural regions and regional development.

Matej Bel University (UMB) is a university in the central Slovak town Banska Bystrica. Banska Bystrica has a long tradition in schooling and culture. It is named after Matej Bel, an outstanding Hungarian-Slovak scholar in the 18th century. The University is one of the biggest universities in Slovakia.

University of Trnava (UT) follows the traditions of one of the oldest universities in Central Europe. The original Jesuit university was founded in 1635 by the Archbishop of Esztergom, Peter Pázmány. University of Trnava currently has five faculties, 4 of them seated in Trnava and 1 in Bratislava.