Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích
Public university · České Budějovice · jcu.cz
Students, 2025
9,728
70% women
Foreign students
9.6%
935 students
New students, 2025
2,356
156 foreign
Graduates, 2025
1,930
New students are those enrolling in higher education for the first time; entrants to follow-on master's and doctoral programmes aren't included, per the ministry's definition.
Fees
Studying in Czech at a public university is free for students of every nationality. Programmes taught in a foreign language — usually English — charge tuition, set by each university. Private universities set their own fees.
3 self-paying students in 2025. Self-paying students pay their own tuition. Per the ministry's own definition they are, as a rule, foreigners studying in a foreign language — so this is the closest published measure of a university's fee-paying English-taught enrolment.
Faculties (8)
| Faculty | Students | Foreign |
|---|---|---|
| Pedagogická fakulta | 2,066 | 0.8% |
| Zdravotně sociální fakulta | 1,806 | 1.7% |
| Přírodovědecká fakulta | 1,417 | 39.1% |
| Ekonomická fakulta | 1,405 | 10.6% |
| Filozofická fakulta | 1,127 | 3.0% |
| Zemědělská fakulta | 1,015 | 6.2% |
| Teologická fakulta | 768 | 5.5% |
| Fakulta rybářství a ochrany vod | 165 | 27.9% |
Faculties needn't add up to the university: a student enrolled at two faculties counts at each, and some study at university-level institutes outside any faculty.
Admissions, 2025: Czech applicants
In the 2025 admission cycle (1 November 2024 to 31 October 2025), 5,523 Czech citizens applied to Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích and took part in the admission procedure; 3,973 were admitted — 72% — and 3,072 enrolled.
Czech citizens only — the ministry's overview leaves out foreign applicants because it can't identify them uniquely. Entry to bachelor's and long (non-follow-on) master's programmes; follow-on master's and doctoral admissions aren't included.
| Faculty | Applicants | Admitted | Share admitted | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedagogická fakulta | 1,614 | 837 | 52% | 587 |
| Zdravotně sociální fakulta | 1,258 | 942 | 75% | 693 |
| Ekonomická fakulta | 1,186 | 736 | 62% | 521 |
| Filozofická fakulta | 638 | 598 | 94% | 393 |
| Zemědělská fakulta | 596 | 481 | 81% | 337 |
| Teologická fakulta | 529 | 345 | 65% | 260 |
| Přírodovědecká fakulta | 483 | 366 | 76% | 248 |
| Fakulta rybářství a ochrany vod | 84 | 84 | 100% | 56 |
| Whole university (each person once) | 5,523 | 3,973 | 72% | 3,072 |
Share admitted = Czech applicants who took part and were admitted, 2025; not shown under 20 applicants. Faculties add up to more than the university, because someone applying to two faculties counts at each but once for the university.
| Share admitted, by cycle | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedagogická fakulta | 64% | 49% | 48% | 47% | 50% | 52% |
| Zdravotně sociální fakulta | 87% | 86% | 84% | 81% | 74% | 75% |
| Ekonomická fakulta | 70% | 99% | 99% | 73% | 68% | 62% |
| Filozofická fakulta | 73% | 72% | 77% | 76% | 71% | 94% |
| Zemědělská fakulta | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 81% |
| Teologická fakulta | 100% | 73% | 82% | 84% | 69% | 65% |
| Přírodovědecká fakulta | 90% | 86% | 68% | 77% | 66% | 76% |
| Fakulta rybářství a ochrany vod | 67% | 94% | 63% | 69% | 74% | 100% |
People, not applications. Applicants are those who applied, excluding anyone who didn't turn up to any entrance exam; admitted and enrolled each count a person once, however many programmes admitted them.
This is how contested a place was among Czech applicants, not a cut-off and not the marks you need: each faculty sets its own entrance exam. The overview counts no foreign applicants and doesn't separate programmes by language of instruction, so it says nothing about an international applicant's chances, or about entry to a programme taught in English.
| Cycle | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applicants | 4,553 | 4,658 | 4,692 | 5,035 | 5,140 | 5,523 |
| Admitted | 3,714 | 3,754 | 3,700 | 3,758 | 3,671 | 3,973 |
| Share admitted | 82% | 81% | 79% | 75% | 71% | 72% |
| Enrolled | 2,684 | 2,653 | 2,556 | 2,739 | 2,670 | 3,072 |
Czech citizens, whole university; each cycle runs from 1 November of the year before to 31 October.
Students over time
| Year | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | 11,476 | 10,563 | 10,079 | 9,378 | 8,798 | 8,643 | 8,811 | 8,773 | 8,710 | 9,030 | 9,083 | 9,728 |
| Foreign | 328 | 385 | 442 | 460 | 481 | 541 | 581 | 644 | 815 | 915 | 905 | 935 |
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Source: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MŠMT), “Výkonové ukazatele VŠ”, table F12 — students, entrants and graduates by university and faculty, as at 31 December; and MŠMT, “Přehled o přijímacím řízení” (Uchazeč), applicants, admitted and enrolled by university and faculty, Czech citizens. Shares are our calculation. City and website from Wikidata (CC0) where available.