Medical University of Gdansk

Institution Info

Teaching activities are carried out by near by one thousand of academic teachers with over one hundred of them holding the professor’s position. Students may choose to live in the comfortable campus, placed close to the main university buildings and the modern library.

Our academy aside from educational activity highly focuses on scientific research, which is proved by the top positions in the ranking of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and many awards gained by its researchers, among many others a prestigious Award of the Foundation for Polish Science received by the Professor Roman Kaliszan in 2003 and Professor Janusz Limon in 2004.

The University constantly modernizes its clinical and teaching facilities. In year 2007 the process of modernization of the main teaching hospital, University Clinical Centre has been launched. The investment is co-financed by the state budget with the subsidy of 480 mln Polish zlotys (ca 140 mln EUR).

The University participates in the international cooperation with more than 50 universities and scientific centers, i.e. carries the wide exchange of students and teachers in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme and is an active member of many European organizations and institutions. Since their foundation our school takes also an active part in the working of two regional organizations – ScanBalt and Baltic Sea Region University Network.