Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (Slovak: Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, UPJŠ) is a public university in Košice, the second-largest city of Slovakia.科希策帕沃尔·约瑟夫·沙法里克大学（斯洛伐克语：Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach，简称UPJŠ）是斯洛伐克第二大城市科希策的一所公立大学。

It was founded in 1959 and is named after Pavel Jozef Šafárik, a nineteenth-century Slovak philologist, poet and historian, and it continues the older university tradition of Košice.该校创立于1959年，以十九世纪斯洛伐克语文学家、诗人兼历史学家帕沃尔·约瑟夫·沙法里克命名，并延续科希策更早的大学传统。

With five faculties and about 7,200 students, it was placed in the 1001-1200 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings and in the 1601-1800 band of the Times Higher Education ranking of the same year.该校设五个学院、学生约7200人，在2027年QS世界大学排名中位列第1001-1200位区间，在同年的泰晤士高等教育排名中位列第1601-1800位区间。

History

• University education in Košice goes back to 1657, when the bishop Benedikt Kishdy founded an academy by a memorandum of Studium Universale and endowed it with forty thousand thalers.科希策的高等教育可追溯至1657年，主教贝内迪克特·基什迪依「普遍学社」备忘录创办了一所学院，并捐赠四万塔勒作为办学基金。
• The academy, run by the Jesuits, was granted the same privileges as the universities of Vienna, Prague, Cologne, Graz, Trnava and Olomouc by the Golden Bull issued on 6 August 1660 by the Roman emperor Leopold I.1660年8月6日，罗马皇帝利奥波德一世颁授金玺诏书，使这所由耶稣会经营、名为科学院的学生享有与维也纳、布拉格、科隆、格拉茨、特尔纳瓦与奥洛穆茨各大学相同的特权。
• Its structure followed the Jesuit study rules, with a rector, vice-rector and chancellor at its head, and the theological faculty was the strongest alongside the philosophical and law faculties.其建制依循耶稣会学规，由校长、副校长与校监主导，神学院与哲学院、法学院并列其中最强者为神学院。
• Teaching was conducted in Latin and covered philosophy, history, languages and the natural sciences, and the university had its own library, church and printing press.教学以拉丁语进行，内容涵盖哲学、历史、语言与自然科学，该大学还拥有自己的图书馆、教堂与印书所。
• Professors such as Martin Palkovič, Samuel Timon, Štefan Kaprinai and Juraj Sklenár gave the university a strong reputation in the Habsburg Monarchy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.马丁·帕尔科维奇、萨穆埃尔·蒂蒙、什捷潘·卡普里纳伊与尤拉伊·斯克莱纳尔等教授，使该校在十七、十八世纪的神圣罗马帝国哈布斯堡君主国中享有很高声誉。
• In 1773 the university passed out of Jesuit control and became a public institution known as Academia Regia, and in 1777 it was reorganised as a two-year law faculty with a philosophical orientation.1773年，该大学脱离耶稣会的管理，成为名为「皇家学院」的公共机构；1777年又改组为带有哲学取向的两年制法学院。
• In 1850 Academia Regia was transformed into a Law Academy, which continued to exist until 1921 and provided legal education in the city for some seventy years.1850年，皇家学院改制为法学院，一直存续至1921年，在这座城市提供法学教育约七十年。
• In 1921 the university ceased to exist for thirty-eight years, although the founding of the Dr Milan Rastislav Štefánik Technical University made Košice a university seat again until it was cancelled by law in 1939.1921年，该大学一度中断达三十八年；尽管米兰·拉斯蒂斯拉夫·什特凡尼克技术大学的创立曾使科希策重新成为大学所在地，但该校于1939年被法律废止。
• After the Second World War several institutions were established in successive steps, among them a subsidiary of the Medicine Faculty of Comenius University in 1948 and a University of Veterinary Medicine in 1949.第二次世界大战后，多所院校相继设立，其中包括1948年考门斯基大学医学院在科希策的分部，以及1949年设立的兽医学大学。
• In 1959 the present university was founded by joining the Košice branch of the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University with the Philosophical Faculty formed from the Prešov Pedagogical College.1959年，现今这所大学由考门斯基大学医学院科希策分部与自普雷绍夫师范学院分立出的哲学院合并而成立。
• The new university took the name of Pavel Jozef Šafárik, the Slovak philologist and historian, thereby linking the renewed institution to the older scholarly tradition of Košice.新大学以斯洛伐克语文学家兼历史学家帕沃尔·约瑟夫·沙法里克命名，从而把重建的机构与科希策更早的学术传统连接起来。
• The Faculty of Science was established in Košice in 1963, broadening the university beyond medicine and the humanities.理学院于1963年在科希策设立，使该校的教学领域超出医学与人文学科。
• A Faculty of Education was created in Prešov in 1964 and a Faculty of Law in Košice in 1973, giving the university a wider regional footprint.教育学院于1964年在普雷绍夫创设，法学院则于1973年在科希策设立，使该校的区域影响进一步扩大。
• In 1990 two further faculties were established in Prešov, a Greek-Catholic Theological Faculty and an Orthodox Theological Faculty.1990年，普雷绍夫又设立了两个学院，即希腊天主教神学院与东正教神学院。
• On 1 January 1997, after difficult discussions in the university and the Slovak parliament, the institution split into Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and the University of Prešov in Prešov.1997年1月1日，经大学与斯洛伐克议会内多番艰难讨论，该校拆分为科希策的沙法里克大学与普雷绍夫大学。
• After the split the Košice university was reduced to three faculties, namely Medicine, Science and Law, and it then rebuilt its academic profile.拆分后，科希策的这所大学仅保留医学、理学与法学三个学院，其后重新构建了自身的学术格局。
• A new Faculty of Public Administration was founded in 1998, and in 1999 the Faculty of Science opened an educational unit in the mining town of Rožňava near Šafárik's birthplace.1998年新设公共管理学院；1999年理学院又在靠近沙法里克出生地的矿区城镇罗日尼亚瓦开设了一个教学分部。
• The university's fifth faculty, the Faculty of Arts, came into being in January 2007, completing the present five-faculty structure.该校的第五个学院文学院于2007年1月成立，由此形成如今五个学院的格局。
• Daniel Pella was sworn in as rector on 22 August 2023, succeeding Pavol Sovák, who had led the university from 2015 to 2023.丹尼尔·佩拉于2023年8月22日宣誓就任校长，接替自2015年至2023年领导该校的帕沃尔·索瓦克。
• In the 2024/25 academic year 7,213 students were enrolled at the university, and its Faculty of Medicine was the most sought-after faculty in Slovakia with 2,752 applications.2024至2025学年，该校共有7213名学生注册，其医学院以2752份申请成为全斯洛伐克最受欢迎的学院。
• In August 2025 the university signed a framework agreement with the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser Facility in Hamburg, extending its research collaboration in the physical sciences.2025年8月，该校与设在汉堡的欧洲X射线自由电子激光设施签署框架协议，扩展其在物理科学领域的研究合作。

Academics

• Pavol Jozef Šafárik University is organised into five faculties, namely Medicine, Science, Law, Public Administration and Arts.沙法里克大学设五个学院，即医学院、理学院、法学院、公共管理学院与文学院。
• The university offers more than 250 study programmes, spanning bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels in the natural sciences, medicine, law, social sciences and the humanities.该校开设250多个学习项目，涵盖自然科学、医学、法学、社会科学与人文学科的学士、硕士与博士层次。
• In the 2024/25 academic year the university had 7,213 students across the first, second and combined study levels, and 1,661 of them completed their studies.2024至2025学年，该校第一、第二及本硕连读各层次共有7213名学生，其中1661人完成学业。
• Its Faculty of Medicine is the university's largest and most competitive faculty, with eleven accredited doctoral programmes and about 2,752 applications in 2024/25.其医学院是该校规模最大、竞争最激烈的学院，设有十一个获认证的博士课程，2024至2025学年收到约2752份申请。
• The Faculty of Science, founded in 1963, is the university's centre for mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and earth sciences, and it also teaches in Rožňava.理学院创设于1963年，是该校数学、物理、化学、生物与地球科学的教学中心，并在罗日尼亚瓦设有教学点。
• The Faculty of Science's educational unit at Rožňava, opened in 1999, offers degree study in a mining region near the birthplace of Pavel Jozef Šafárik.理学院于1999年在罗日尼亚瓦开设的教学分部，在靠近帕沃尔·约瑟夫·沙法里克出生地的矿区提供学位课程。
• The Faculty of Law, based in Košice since 1973, trains jurists and offers legal study programmes in Slovak and in foreign languages.法学院自1973年起设于科希策，培养法律人才，并以斯洛伐克语与外语开设法学课程。
• The Faculty of Public Administration, established in 1998, focuses on public policy, economics and administration for the public sector.公共管理学院成立于1998年，面向公共部门，聚焦公共政策、经济学与行政管理。
• The Faculty of Arts, the university's youngest faculty, was founded in January 2007 and covers philosophy, history, philology and related humanities disciplines.文学院是该校最年轻的学院，于2007年1月成立，涵盖哲学、历史、语言学及相关人文学科。
• Teaching is delivered mainly in Slovak, with a growing number of programmes offered in English, and some courses taught in German.该校教学以斯洛伐克语为主，以英语开设的项目不断增多，另有部分课程以德语授课。
• The university attracts international students through English-taught programmes and through cooperation agreements with universities in Europe and Asia.该校通过以英语授课的项目以及与欧亚多所大学的合作协议，吸引国际学生前来就读。
• The university takes part in the Erasmus+ programme and other European mobility schemes, sending students to partner universities and hosting incoming exchange students.该校参与伊拉斯谟加强版计划及其他欧洲流动项目，向合作大学派出学生并接收交换学生。
• Medical teaching is supported by the Louis Pasteur University Hospital in Košice, which serves as the clinical base of the Faculty of Medicine.医学教学以科希策的路易·巴斯德大学医院为支撑，该院是医学院的临床基地。
• The university cooperates with Chinese institutions, and in December it signed a memorandum of cooperation with the China University of Mining and Technology.该校与中国院校开展合作，并于当年12月与中国矿业大学签署合作备忘录。
• Research at the university spans medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, materials science and the social sciences, supported by its doctoral programmes.该校的研究横跨医学、物理、化学、生物、材料科学与社会科学的领域，并由各博士课程提供支撑。
• Research links the university with the Slovak Academy of Sciences and with hospitals, institutes and industry across eastern Slovakia.该校的研究与斯洛伐克科学院以及斯洛伐克东部的医院、研究机构与产业界保持联系。
• The university offers lifelong-learning and further-education courses for teachers, health professionals and public administrators in the region.该校为所在地区的教师、卫生专业人员与公共管理人员提供终身学习与继续教育课程。
• According to the OpenAlex scholarly database, the university is credited with about 16,124 research works and some 656,898 citations.据学术数据库OpenAlex统计，该校约有16,124项研究成果与约656,898次被引用。
• The university hosts summer schools and short programmes that attract visiting students and researchers from other European countries.该校举办暑期学校与短期项目，吸引来自其他欧洲国家的访问学生与研究人员。
• Academic staff conduct research in university institutes and laboratories, and the Faculty of Medicine works closely with the regional health system.该校教师在各学院的研究所与实验室开展研究，医学院则与地区卫生体系紧密合作。
• The university maintains doctoral schools across its faculties and supervises dissertations in Slovak and in English.该校各学院均设有博士学院，并以斯洛伐克语和英语指导学位论文。

Campus

• The university is based in Košice, the second-largest city of Slovakia, in the eastern part of the country near the borders with Hungary and Ukraine.该校位于斯洛伐克第二大城市科希策，地处该国东部，靠近与匈牙利和乌克兰的边界地区。
• Its faculties are distributed among several addresses in the city, among them the Faculty of Arts on Šrobárova and the Faculty of Science on Moyzesova.其各学院分布于城中多处地址，其中文学院位于什罗巴罗瓦街，理学院位于莫伊泽索瓦街。
• The university's Šrobárova building houses the Faculty of Arts, while the science and medical faculties occupy larger sites elsewhere in the city.该校位于什罗巴罗瓦街的大楼设文学院，而理学院与医学院则在城中别处占用更大的场地。
• The Faculty of Medicine and the Louis Pasteur University Hospital form a clinical campus in the city, where medical students carry out their practical training.医学院与科希策的路易·巴斯德大学医院在城中构成一个临床校区，医学学生在此进行实践培训。
• Student dormitories are located close to the faculties, and the university provides accommodation for students from across Slovakia and from abroad.学生宿舍邻近各学院，该校为来自斯洛伐克各地与国外的学生提供住宿。
• The faculties are linked by Košice's tram and bus network, and the city's compact layout keeps travel between the university sites short.各学院由科希策的有轨电车与公交网络相连，城市紧凑的布局使各校园之间的往来距离很短。
• Košice has a well-preserved historic centre, with St Elisabeth's Cathedral and the singing fountain on its main street, within reach of the university buildings.科希策拥有保存完好的历史城区，其主街上有圣伊丽莎白主教座堂与音乐喷泉，距该校各教学楼均在可达范围内。
• Košice is served by its own international airport and by direct rail links to Bratislava and beyond, making the university accessible from across Slovakia.科希策设有自己的国际机场，并有直达列车通往布拉迪斯拉发及更远地区，使该校可从斯洛伐克各地抵达。
• The city was a European Capital of Culture in 2013, and its museums, galleries and student quarter shape the setting of university life.科希策于2013年当选欧洲文化之都，其博物馆、美术馆与学生街区共同塑造了大学生活的氛围。
• Two universities and several research institutions share the city, giving Košice a dense academic and student community in which UPJŠ takes part.该市还有另一所大学与若干研究机构，使科希策拥有密集的学术与学生社群，该校亦是其中一员。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice is placed in the 1001-1200 band, a shared range rather than a single position.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，科希策的沙法里克大学位列第1001-1200位区间，属并列区间而非单一席位。
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the 1601-1800 band.在2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列第1601-1800位区间。
• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it stands at number 1,784 in the world.在2026-2027年度US News全球最佳大学排名中，该校位居全球第1784位。
• The university was not included in the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.该校未进入软科发布的2026年世界大学学术排名主榜。
• Its Faculty of Medicine was the most in-demand faculty in Slovakia in the 2024/25 admissions round, with 2,752 applications recorded by the Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information.其医学院在2024至2025学年招生中为全斯洛伐克申请人数最多的学院，斯洛伐克科学技术信息中心记录到2752份申请。
• In 2024/25 the university as a whole ranked fourth in Slovakia by the number of applications received, underlining its standing among the country's leading institutions.2024至2025学年，该校整体在斯洛伐克收到的申请数量位居第四，凸显其在国内领先院校中的地位。
• OpenAlex attributes about 16,124 research works and some 656,898 citations to the university, reflecting its strong output in medicine and the natural sciences.OpenAlex收录该校约16,124项研究成果与约656,898次被引用，体现其在医学与自然科学领域的强劲产出。
• The university continues the scholarly tradition of the Košice academy founded in 1657 and is named after the philologist Pavel Jozef Šafárik.该校延续1657年创立的科希策学院的学术传统，并以语文学家帕沃尔·约瑟夫·沙法里克命名。
• Its rector was elected vice-president of the Slovak Rectors' Conference in May 2025, giving the university a voice in national higher-education policy.2025年5月，该校校长当选斯洛伐克校长会议副主席，使该校在全国高等教育政策中拥有一席发言之地。
• Within Slovakia the university is recognised above all for medicine and the natural sciences, and its medical faculty is among the most competitive in the country.在斯洛伐克国内，该校尤以医学与自然科学著称，其医学院是全国竞争最激烈的学院之一。

Student life

• The university honours its namesake, the nineteenth-century philologist Pavel Jozef Šafárik, whose scholarly legacy stands in place of a formal motto.该校尊崇其命名的来源、十九世纪语文学家帕沃尔·约瑟夫·沙法里克，以其学术遗产代替正式的校训。
• Students are housed in university dormitories in Košice, and the faculties provide canteens, libraries and study facilities across the city.学生住在科希策的大学宿舍，各学院在城中提供食堂、图书馆与学习设施。
• The university has run its Univerzita bez hraníc summer camp for children for fifteen editions, introducing young pupils to university life.该校为儿童举办名为「没有边界的大学」的夏令营，已办至第十五届，让年幼学生了解大学生活。
• An annual open day brings prospective students to the faculties, and in 2023 the university held the thirteenth edition of the event.该校每年举办开放日，吸引有意报考的学生走进各学院；2023年已是该活动第十三届。
• Student societies and sports clubs operate across the faculties, and the university marks the Slovak Day of Teachers with a rector's address to staff.各学院设有学生社团与体育俱乐部，该校并以校长致辞纪念斯洛伐克的教师节。
• Students are supported by scholarships, counselling and careers services, and the university takes part in national employability and graduate-tracking events.学生由奖学金、咨询与就业服务提供支持，该校并参与全国性的就业与毕业生追踪活动。
• Košice's theatres, music venues and student cafes, together with the university's own societies, provide students with a lively cultural and social life.科希策的剧院、音乐场所与学生咖啡馆，连同该校自身的社团，为学生提供了活跃的文化与社交生活。
• Košice's status as a European Capital of Culture in 2013 and its compact historic centre give students a rich cultural setting for their studies.科希策2013年当选欧洲文化之都，其紧凑的历史城区为学生的求学提供了丰富的文化环境。
• International students take part in exchange programmes and summer schools, and the university supports them through its international relations office.国际学生参加交流项目与暑期学校，该校并通过其国际关系办公室为他们提供支持。
• The university's location in eastern Slovakia places it near the High Tatras and the Slovak Paradise, which students use for outdoor activities.该校地处斯洛伐克东部，邻近高塔特拉山与斯洛伐克天堂国家公园，学生可在此开展户外活动。

Notable people

• Rudolf Schuster, who served as President of Slovakia from 1999 to 2004, was born in Košice and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university.1999年至2004年出任斯洛伐克总统的鲁道夫·舒斯特生于科希策，并获该校授予荣誉博士学位。
• Vladimir Hajko, a physicist specialising in solid-state physics and magnetic phenomena, was the first dean of the Faculty of Science in 1963 and rector of the university from 1969 to 1974.专长固体物理与磁现象的物理学家弗拉基米尔·哈伊科于1963年出任理学院首任院长，并于1969年至1974年任该校校长。
• Ladislav Mirossay, a pharmacologist who graduated from the university in stomatology in 1979, served as its rector from 2007 to 2015.1979年在该校取得口腔医学学位的药理学家拉迪斯拉夫·米罗萨伊，于2007年至2015年出任该校校长。
• Juraj Vancik, a cardiologist and the director of a private hospital in Košice, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in 1974.心脏病专家、科希策一家私立医院院长的尤拉伊·万奇克，于1974年毕业于该校医学院。
• Pavol Joppa, a pulmonologist and associate professor of internal medicine, heads the Clinic of Pneumology and Phthisiology at the university and its teaching hospital.肺科专家、内科副教授帕沃尔·约帕，主管该校及其教学医院的肺病与结核病科。
• Jozef Skotnicky, who qualified as a lecturer in medical physics in 1943, helped establish medical physics teaching when the Faculty of Medicine was created in Košice.1943年取得医学物理讲师资格的约瑟夫·斯科特尼茨基，在科希策创建医学院时协助建立了医学物理教学。
• Peter Jarcuska, a professor of internal medicine, serves as dean of the Faculty of Medicine and leads its doctoral training in clinical disciplines.内科教授彼得·亚尔丘什卡任医学院院长，并主管该校临床学科的博士培养。
• Daniel Pella, a professor of medicine, has been rector of the university since he took the oath of office on 22 August 2023.医学教授丹尼尔·佩拉自2023年8月22日宣誓就任以来，一直担任该校校长。
• Pavel Jozef Šafárik, the philologist, poet and historian after whom the university is named, is honoured as the scholarly patron of the institution.该校命名的来源——语文学家、诗人兼历史学家帕沃尔·约瑟夫·沙法里克，被尊为该机构的学术守护者。
• Benedikt Kishdy, bishop of Eger, founded the academy that began university education in Košice in 1657, and Samuel Timon was among its celebrated professors of the eighteenth century.埃格尔主教贝内迪克特·基什迪于1657年创办了在科希策开启大学教育的学院，萨穆埃尔·蒂蒙则是其十八世纪的著名教授之一。