Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice
Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach (UPJŠ)
Public university · Košice · upjs.sk
Slovak applicants, 2024
3,119
4,472 applications
Admitted
1,756
56% of applicants
Enrolled
1,311
Planned places
2,345
2024 admissions, full-time study. Slovak citizens only: CVTI's overview counts applicants with Slovak citizenship. Full-time study, entry to bachelor's and to long-cycle programmes (such as medicine); part-time study, follow-on master's and doctoral admissions aren't included.
Admissions by faculty, 2024
| Faculty or unit | Planned places | Applicants | Admitted | Share admitted | Enrolled | Applications |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ústav telesnej výchovy a športu | 50 | 54 | 40 | 74% | 35 | 55 |
| Lekárska fakulta | 655 | 1,351 | 491 | 36% | 430 | 1,797 |
| Prírodovedecká fakulta | 590 | 659 | 474 | 72% | 212 | 778 |
| Právnická fakulta | 220 | 409 | 314 | 77% | 212 | 413 |
| Fakulta verejnej správy | 270 | 251 | 171 | 68% | 107 | 270 |
| Filozofická fakulta | 560 | 890 | 445 | 50% | 317 | 1,159 |
| Whole university (each person once) | 2,345 | 3,119 | 1,756 | 56% | 1,311 | 4,472 |
Indented rows are workplaces (detached sites and institutes) inside the unit above; they add up to it. Faculties add up to more applicants than the university, because someone applying to two faculties counts at each but once for the university. Share admitted is not shown under 20 applicants. Faculty names are CVTI's, in Slovak.
Share admitted is admitted ÷ applicants, from CVTI's figures: how contested a place was among Slovak applicants, not a cut-off and not the marks you need — each faculty sets its own entrance requirements. A share can exceed 100%; the figures are shown as CVTI publishes them.
Applicants, admitted and enrolled are people, each counted once per faculty and once per university however many programmes they applied to. Applications and accepted applications count every programme applied for.
Study programmes, 2023 admissions
75 full-time programmes in CVTI's 2023 list: 6,100 applications, 2,929 accepted (48.0%) and 1,884 enrolments in all. Most applied-for first.
Lekárska fakulta · Košice
| Programme | Applications | Accepted | % accepted | Enrolments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Všeobecné lekárstvo | 2,004 | 850 | 42.4% | 616 |
| Zubné lekárstvo | 541 | 146 | 27.0% | 98 |
| Ošetrovateľstvo | 87 | 67 | 77.0% | 44 |
| Fyzioterapia | 74 | 19 | 25.7% | 15 |
| Laboratórne vyšetrovacie metódy v zdravotníctve | 62 | 36 | 58.1% | 15 |
| Verejné zdravotníctvo | 36 | 35 | 97.2% | 14 |
Právnická fakulta · Košice
| Programme | Applications | Accepted | % accepted | Enrolments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Právo | 433 | 317 | 73.2% | 204 |
Fakulta verejnej správy · Košice
| Programme | Applications | Accepted | % accepted | Enrolments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Európska verejná správa | 298 | 121 | 40.6% | 100 |
| Verejná správa | 207 | 132 | 63.8% | 96 |
| Informačné systémy vo verejnej správe | 37 | 14 | 37.8% | 11 |
Filozofická fakulta · Košice
| Programme | Applications | Accepted | % accepted | Enrolments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychológia | 385 | 64 | 16.6% | 46 |
| Slovakisticko-mediálne štúdiá | 90 | 52 | 57.8% | 35 |
| Anglický jazyk pre európske inštitúcie a ekonomiku | 88 | 56 | 63.6% | 37 |
| Politológia | 87 | 56 | 64.4% | 35 |
| Britské a americké štúdiá | 68 | 43 | 63.2% | 22 |
| Filozofia - psychológia | 67 | 31 | 46.3% | 25 |
| Sociálna práca | 58 | 40 | 69.0% | 24 |
| Britské a americké štúdiá - psychológia | 54 | 35 | 64.8% | 25 |
| Slovenský jazyk a literatúra - psychológia | 46 | 28 | 60.9% | 15 |
| História - psychológia | 33 | 18 | 54.5% | 15 |
| História - slovenský jazyk a literatúra | 33 | 16 | 48.5% | 11 |
| Slovenský jazyk a literatúra - britské a americké štúdiá | 32 | 23 | 71.9% | 12 |
| História - britské a americké štúdiá | 30 | 21 | 70.0% | 13 |
| História - filozofia | 27 | 15 | 55.6% | 7 |
| Filozofia | 25 | 15 | 60.0% | 4 |
| História | 23 | 13 | 56.5% | 7 |
| Slovenský jazyk a literatúra - biológia | 22 | 19 | 86.4% | 9 |
| Britské a americké štúdiá - filozofia | 18 | 12 | 66.7% | 5 |
| Slovenský jazyk a literatúra - geografia | 17 | 15 | 88.2% | 7 |
| Britské a americké štúdiá - biológia | 12 | 10 | 83.3% | 8 |
| Britské a americké štúdiá - geografia | 12 | 9 | 75.0% | 4 |
| História - geografia | 12 | 7 | 58.3% | 3 |
| Nemecký jazyk a literatúra - psychológia | 8 | 4 | 50.0% | 4 |
| Britské a americké štúdiá - informatika | 7 | 4 | 57.1% | 4 |
| Britské a americké štúdiá - nemecký jazyk a literatúra | 7 | 6 | 85.7% | 3 |
| Slovenský jazyk a literatúra - matematika | 6 | 5 | 83.3% | 2 |
| Britské a americké štúdiá - matematika | 5 | 2 | 40.0% | 0 |
| Latinský jazyk a literatúra - britské a americké štúdiá | 5 | 3 | 60.0% | 1 |
| Slovenský jazyk a literatúra - filozofia | 5 | 3 | 60.0% | 0 |
| Latinský jazyk a literatúra - história | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 2 |
| Nemecký jazyk a literatúra - geografia | 2 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
| Slovenský jazyk a literatúra - nemecký jazyk a literatúra | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 0 |
| História - nemecký jazyk a literatúra | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 0 |
| Latinský jazyk a literatúra - filozofia | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 1 |
| Nemecký jazyk a literatúra - filozofia | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 1 |
| Slovenský jazyk a literatúra - informatika | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
Prírodovedecká fakulta · Košice
| Programme | Applications | Accepted | % accepted | Enrolments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biológia - chémia | 176 | 108 | 61.4% | 39 |
| Biológia | 151 | 54 | 35.8% | 15 |
| Chémia | 114 | 81 | 71.1% | 37 |
| Biológia - psychológia | 79 | 35 | 44.3% | 17 |
| Aplikovaná informatika | 70 | 27 | 38.6% | 12 |
| Informatika | 62 | 24 | 38.7% | 14 |
| Analýza dát a umelá inteligencia | 48 | 22 | 45.8% | 14 |
| Fyzika | 30 | 21 | 70.0% | 12 |
| Biológia - geografia | 27 | 17 | 63.0% | 11 |
| Matematika - informatika | 20 | 18 | 90.0% | 9 |
| Geografia a geoinformatika | 19 | 15 | 78.9% | 10 |
| Biofyzika | 16 | 10 | 62.5% | 7 |
| Ekonomická a finančná matematika | 16 | 8 | 50.0% | 5 |
| Fyzika - chémia | 14 | 8 | 57.1% | 4 |
| Geografia - psychológia | 14 | 6 | 42.9% | 4 |
| Matematika - biológia | 14 | 11 | 78.6% | 3 |
| Matematika - geografia | 14 | 9 | 64.3% | 7 |
| Matematika - fyzika | 13 | 8 | 61.5% | 7 |
| Matematika - psychológia | 12 | 8 | 66.7% | 4 |
| Biológia - informatika | 10 | 3 | 30.0% | 3 |
| Matematika | 9 | 5 | 55.6% | 4 |
| Matematika - chémia | 8 | 6 | 75.0% | 4 |
| Chémia - geografia | 7 | 5 | 71.4% | 1 |
| Fyzika - biológia | 5 | 3 | 60.0% | 3 |
| Fyzika - informatika | 5 | 1 | 20.0% | 0 |
| Geografia - informatika | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | 1 |
| Geografia - filozofia | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | 0 |
| Chémia - informatika | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 0 |
Ústav telesnej výchovy a športu · Košice
| Programme | Applications | Accepted | % accepted | Enrolments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Šport a rekreácia | 68 | 41 | 60.3% | 37 |
Programme figures come from CVTI's programme lists for the 2023 admissions, a year before the faculty figures. They count applications, not people: an application naming several programmes is registered at each, so a university's programme totals are higher than its faculty figures and can't be compared with them or added to them. The lists don't say they are limited to Slovak citizens. % accepted = accepted applications × 100 ÷ applications, as CVTI prints it; CVTI notes that accepted applications can exceed applications when applicants are admitted to a different programme or form of study than the one they applied for, and its column then shows 0 — we show “over 100%”.
Fees
At public and state universities, full-time study of one programme within its standard length is free: the Higher Education Act (300/2025, § 96(5)) charges tuition only for a second parallel programme, for exceeding the standard length, for part-time study, and for study taught only in a foreign language where the university decides so — with no distinction by citizenship. Programmes in English or another foreign language cost about €750–€11,000 a year, according to the European Commission's Study in Europe profile. Private universities set their own fees.
Visas, living costs and how applications work in Slovakia are in our Slovakia study guide.
CVTI's website doesn't answer connections from where this site is built, so its files were read from the Internet Archive's copies of CVTI's own links.
Source: CVTI SR (Centrum vedecko-technických informácií Slovenskej republiky), admission statistics: “Prehľad prijímacieho konania na vysoké školy na dennú formu štúdia v roku 2024” (sr1den24.pdf) and “Rebríček študijných programov vysokej školy v prijímacom konaní v roku 2023”, one file per university. Read on 23 October 2026 from the Internet Archive's copies of CVTI's links, because cvtisr.sk doesn't answer connections from where this site is built. Facts re-keyed by CollegeMatcher; shares, sums and English names are ours.
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