The University of Opole was established in 1994 as a result of the fusion of Higher Pedagogical College in Opole and Opole branch of the Catholic University in Lublin. It comprises twelve faculties and nineteen sceintific institutes cooperating with other university units. It is member of Forthem Alliance and runs Europa Master's Programme in Political Sciences.
The academic history of Opole for over half a century was created by outstanding intellectuals, who came to Silesia after World War II from the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. There were first-rate professors who held the positions of rectors and deans, such as prominent professors Stanisław Rospond and Henryk Borek; a professor in the history of literature Stanisław Kolbuszewski (before the war he was a professor at Riga University in Latvia); a logician born in Harbin (China) prof. Jerzy Słupecki; a historian-medievalist prof. Maurycy Róg from Lviv; an outstanding historian Władysław Dziewulski (who was born in Moscow); a lawyer and political scientist prof. Józef Kokot (who had been director of the Silesian Institute in Opole for a long time); a historian of antiquity prof. Eugeniusz Konik from Lviv and many others are outstanding specialists.
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