The University of Zilina as a public university provides education at all three levels of higher education (Bachelor’s degree, Engineer/Master’s degree and Doctoral degree) in both full-time and part-time forms. So far approximately 63 000 graduates have finished their studies (1800 graduates from abroad) at the University. Approximately 11 000 students currently study in all forms of study. There are more than 1,500 employees and 650 of them are university teachers. With its more than a half century history, the University has taken a prominent place in the Slovak educational space not only with the number of its students, with the range of accredited study programmes, but also with its scientific and foreign activities based on cooperation with domestic and foreign companies and institutions. In the field of science and research, individual working places of the University have been involved in solving of more than 150 scientific and research projects financially supported from public sources through countrywide grant schemes in the sum of 2,1 mil EUR. Currently, scientific teams have been working on 35 projects supported from abroad, mainly within the EU 6th and 7th Framework Programmes. Except for solving project tasks, the issues of quality technical equipment of experimental working places and increasing quality of human sources have been monitored. (Source: the university’s website)