Pan-European University is a modern teaching and scientific-research institution, which is committed to the Humboldt idea of higher education grounded on the latest knowledge of science and research focusing on practice. Currently, the school has five faculties: Faculty of LawFaculty of Economics and Business Faculty of Psychology Faculty of Informatics Faculty of Mass Media The school also offers lifelong learning at the University of the Third Age at the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Psychology.
International cooperation
PEU supports the continuous exchange of knowledge, ideas, information, researchers, educationists and students with the world. Since its establishment it cooperates with prestigious foreign universities and research institutions. It is a member of the four world university clusters, it has partnerships under Erasmus+ and other 40 universities. In addition to domestic experts, a high percentage of foreign teachers mainly from the Czech Republic, Austria, Russia, the USA and Hong Kong give lectures at the Faculties. Headquarters of the President and the Faculties Bratislava, Tomasikova 20 – Office of the President, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Psychology Bratislava, Tematinska 10 – Faculty of Economics and Business, Faculty of Mass Media, Faculty of Informatics Bratislava, Nevadzova 5 – Media Centre
History
Education at the Bratislavska University started in 2004 when as the first private university of legal specialization accepted the first students at the Faculty of Law. In 2005, the Faculty of Economics and Business was opened; the next opened ones were the Faculty of Mass Media in 2007 and the Faculty of Informatics in 2009. The youngest faculty of the school is the Faculty of Psychology established in 2011. Since 2010, the school has been called Pan-European University after the paneuropanism concept, which was represented by Richard Nicolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi in 1923. There was an announcement in 2015 that the school would be taken over by the Czech holding owned by Miroslav Kurka. Jan Carnogursky left the school in 2014, the school was owned by Russians. The school has been said to struggle with financial problems since 2013.
Faculty of Law focuses on international and European law.
Faculty of Economics and Business prepares students for working in the global economic environment.
Faculty of Mass Media . The University has expanded into the field of media studies.
Faculty of Informatics was established as a response to the dynamic developments in information technologies. It is the only private faculty in Slovakia with a focus on applied informatics.
Faculty of Psychology is the youngest faculty, which was established in 2011. It is the first and only private faculty of psychology in Slovakia. The education is focused on work and school psychology, but also on social and counselling.
Study programmes
PEU has at its five faculties 21 accredited study programmes at all three university levels, both internal and external forms.
* Media and Marketing Communication – Media Design
* Media Studies
Faculty of Informatics
* Applied Informatics
* Applied Informatics
Faculty of Psychology
* Psychology
* School and Work Psychology
* School Psychology
PEU also offers interdisciplinary education – a possibility of simultaneous study at some faculties in several study programmes in a foreign language, bilingual and multilingual lectures. PEU four faculties are authorized to conduct rigorous examination and defence of thesis. After the successful completion, the particular faculty has right to award degrees. Faculty of Law: Doctor of Laws, Faculty of Mass Media and Faculty of Psychology: Doctor of Philosophy and the Faculty of Informatics: Doctor of Natural Sciences. The school has a modern material and technical equipment.
PEU pays attention to extra-curricular activities of students. Student Club and University Paneuropa Kings hockey team are active at the school. In 2013, the school opened its premises to a permanent exhibition of Karol Kallay, an important Slovak photographer. There is Silencium Fine Arts Gallery exhibition in the building on Tomasikova Street, Bratislava, Slovakia. A school radio began broadcasting in the academic year 2014/2015 and since 2011 the students publish the LIKE University magazine. The students and the school have received several prestigious awards at home and abroad for their projects.
2012 – Students of the Faculty of Law received the top award in mediation and 3rd prize of the overall evaluation on simulated commercial arbitration at the City University of Hong Kong.
2012 – A student of the Faculty of Law was awarded the Hospodarske noviny Prize in the Student of the Year contest.
2012 – Students of the Faculty of Mass Media won 1st prize in the category of Arts & Showbiz and the third prize in the category of Sports in the prestigious Slovak Press Photo photographic competition
2013 – The Faculty of Law students received the top award in mediation and third prize as the best speakers and in arbitration to simulate commercial arbitration at the City University of Hong Kong
2013 – Students of the Faculty of Informatics won in Starfit competition with a drone project
2013 – 2nd prize for the Like magazine in the national Sturovo pero competition in the category of University magazines
2014 – 1st prize for the Like magazine in the national Sturovo pero competition in the category of University magazines
