Západočeská univerzita v Plzni
Public university · Plzeň · zcu.cz
Students, 2025
12,439
55% women
Foreign students
5.8%
719 students
New students, 2025
3,111
186 foreign
Graduates, 2025
2,459
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.
55 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 (9)
| Faculty | Students | Foreign |
|---|---|---|
| Fakulta pedagogická | 2,303 | 1.7% |
| Fakulta ekonomická | 2,069 | 5.0% |
| Fakulta právnická | 1,935 | 1.3% |
| Filozofická fakulta | 1,745 | 12.1% |
| Fakulta zdravotnických studií | 1,015 | 2.9% |
| Fakulta aplikovaných věd | 990 | 7.7% |
| Fakulta elektrotechnická | 857 | 6.7% |
| Fakulta designu a umění L. Sutnara | 825 | 15.9% |
| Fakulta strojní | 781 | 5.9% |
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), 8,195 Czech citizens applied to Západočeská univerzita v Plzni and took part in the admission procedure; 5,256 were admitted — 64% — and 4,113 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fakulta ekonomická | 1,855 | 1,284 | 69% | 838 |
| Fakulta pedagogická | 1,750 | 1,086 | 62% | 702 |
| Fakulta právnická | 1,514 | 489 | 32% | 489 |
| Fakulta zdravotnických studií | 1,085 | 621 | 57% | 419 |
| Filozofická fakulta | 1,022 | 897 | 88% | 664 |
| Fakulta designu a umění L. Sutnara | 707 | 206 | 29% | 149 |
| Fakulta aplikovaných věd | 631 | 430 | 68% | 311 |
| Fakulta elektrotechnická | 495 | 436 | 88% | 323 |
| Fakulta strojní | 416 | 342 | 82% | 276 |
| Whole university (each person once) | 8,195 | 5,256 | 64% | 4,113 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fakulta ekonomická | 54% | 50% | 54% | 68% | 76% | 69% |
| Fakulta pedagogická | 57% | 54% | 48% | 35% | 56% | 62% |
| Fakulta právnická | 70% | 67% | 72% | 73% | 66% | 32% |
| Fakulta zdravotnických studií | 59% | 48% | 52% | 55% | 55% | 57% |
| Filozofická fakulta | 74% | 66% | 79% | 81% | 86% | 88% |
| Fakulta designu a umění L. Sutnara | 40% | 36% | 30% | 31% | 29% | 29% |
| Fakulta aplikovaných věd | 88% | 60% | 66% | 70% | 72% | 68% |
| Fakulta elektrotechnická | 98% | 77% | 82% | 85% | 86% | 88% |
| Fakulta strojní | 94% | 96% | 84% | 81% | 86% | 82% |
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 | 6,618 | 7,056 | 7,137 | 7,340 | 7,526 | 8,195 |
| Admitted | 4,802 | 4,501 | 4,648 | 4,729 | 5,236 | 5,256 |
| Share admitted | 73% | 64% | 65% | 64% | 70% | 64% |
| Enrolled | 3,658 | 3,527 | 3,513 | 3,673 | 3,947 | 4,113 |
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 | 12,428 | 11,523 | 10,876 | 10,719 | 10,421 | 10,722 | 10,912 | 10,968 | 11,069 | 11,210 | 11,710 | 12,439 |
| Foreign | 384 | 416 | 456 | 445 | 450 | 475 | 512 | 555 | 664 | 649 | 685 | 719 |
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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.