The new academic year has started at UVLF for more than 2200 students
The new academic year 2024/25 started on Monday 16 September 2024 for 2286 students in all study programmes at the University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice. Of this total, 1603 students are in programmes taught in Slovak and 570 in English. Another 113 students are in the third cycle, the so-called doctoral studies. Rector Jozef Nagy, Vice-Rectors Jana Koščová and Zuzana Kostecká, Vice-Rectors Martin Tomko and Boris Vojtek, Bursar Róbert Schréter, Chairman of the UVLF Academic Senate Slavomír Marcinčák, Chairman of the UVLF Board of Trustees Miroslav Martinček, scientific, pedagogical and non-teaching employees of the school, students and guests took part in the opening ceremony of the academic year.
In his speech to the employees and students, the Rector of UVLF prof. MVDr. Jozef Nagy, PhD., outlined the most important challenges of the beginning of the academic year. After the process of assessment of the internal quality system at the national level, one of the key challenges will be the international accreditation by the European Association of Institutions for Veterinary Education, which is coming after a ten-year period. "Our long-term goal in the field of education for the period 2024 - 2029 is to maintain the position of the University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice as a prestigious university that provides education in the fields of veterinary medicine, pharmacy and biology. Our main focus is on veterinary medicine, hygiene, technology and health food safety and pharmacy at the level of first, second, combining first and second, and third level of higher education. In Slovakia and in the international education space, we strive to do this in accordance with the needs of practice and the requirements of society, backed by quality standards, research and innovation. These words may sound abstract, formal or impersonal, but in our everyday life they are reflected in the performance of smaller or larger tasks, in the search for procedures and solutions, in hard work and perhaps also in amazing results," said, among other things, Rector Jozef Nagy.
The largest number of young people, 1608 in total, will study in the combined first and second cycle of higher education in the study programmes of general veterinary medicine (707 students, including 120 freshmen), general veterinary medicine in English (450, including 88 freshmen), pharmacy (367, including 61 freshmen) and food hygiene (84 students, including 13 freshmen). 484 students enrolled in the first cycle, i.e. bachelor studies, in both full-time and part-time form in the programmes of cynology (165 students), veterinary nursing (117), human-animal relationship and its use in canister therapy and hippotherapy (56), feed and food safety (26), animal science - a joint study programme with the partner Nord University in Bodø, Norway (120 students). A total of 81 students are enrolled in the second master's degree. 8 students in the Food Market and Quality programme and 73 students in the Animal Welfare and Protection programme, both full-time and part-time. There are 113 PhD students enrolled in the third cycle of higher education at ULVF, of which 81 in full-time and 32 in part-time study.
Apart from the large group of Norwegian students in the Joint Study Programme, young people studying in English come mainly from France, Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Hungary, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Spain, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, India, Iran, Canada, Malta, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey and Ukraine.