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UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF GDANSKOF GDANSK

FACULTY OF ECONOMICSFACULTY OF ECONOMICS

Marta StaszyńskaMarta Staszyńska

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TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Where is it?2. History.3. The University in Figures.4. The Faculties.5. Faculty of Economics.6. About Sopot.

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WhereWhere Is Is It?It?

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HistorHistoryy

1942- Maritime Institute in Sopot as a part of the Secret University of Western Lands.

1945- The Higher Economic School in Gdynia.

1946 - Formal creation of the Higher School of Maritime Trade in Gdynia.

1952- The Higher School of Economics in Sopot.1970- University of Gdansk (The Higher School The Higher School

of of Economics in SopotEconomics in Sopot + The Higher School The Higher School of of Pedagogics in WrzeszczPedagogics in Wrzeszcz).

1993- both Faculties of the Economics changed their Names:The Faculty of the Economics of Production into The Faculty of Management.The Faculty of Management.The Faculty of the Economics of Transportation into The Faculty of Economics.The Faculty of Economics.

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The The UniversityUniversity in in figuresfigures

• 9 faculties • 27 major fields of study • 106 specializations • 1700 academic staff • 33,000 students • 716 doctoral students • 70 post-graduate departments • 3,000 post-graduate students • 11 student hostels • over 3000 places in student

hostels

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The Faculties

• The Faculty of Biology, Geography and Oceanology

• The Faculty of Chemistry • The Faculty of Economics • The Faculty of Philology and History• The Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and

Informatics• The Faculty of Social Sciences• The Faculty of Law and Administration • The Faculty of Management • The Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG

and MUG

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The Bologna system of The Bologna system of educationeducation

For the 2005/2006 academic year, the University of Gdansk has introduced in almost all fields of day studies a two-tier system of education.

•The first tier of education embraces three years of vocational studies leading to the vocational degree of licencjat (Bachelor).

•Each graduate of vocational studies will be able to continue education with a two-year course of Master’s studies, and then a three- or four-year course of Doctoral studies.

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FacultyFaculty of of EconomicsEconomics

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FacultyFaculty of of EconomicsEconomics

• The studies are carried in daily, extramural and evening classes.

• Classes are carried according to international standards which include:

microeconomics and macroeconomics

global economy numeral economic methods organization and management

knowledge about companies

civil and trade law foreign languages exact sciences subjects

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SpecializatioSpecializations:ns:

• Economy and European Business• International Finances and Banking• International TradeInternational Trade• Maritime Trade and Tourism• Marketing• Economic Policy and Enterprise

Strategy• Internet Enterprises• International Market and Global

Economy• Theory of Enterprises• Transportation and Logistics.

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Our faculty prides Our faculty prides itself on:itself on:

• fifty years of experience in research and collecting

documentation connected with European integration • research and didactic staff which has experience in

practice• possibility of teaching the students how to conduct a

stock-exchange transaction in real time in the only dealing room of that kind in Poland

• cooperation with foreign research centers• 42 agreements with European high schools concluded

within Erasmus/Socrates programmes; about 100 students studied abroad in 2003

• cooperation with economic practice

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AboutAbout SopotSopot

Wooden PierWooden Pier511,5 m511,5 m

Crooked HouseCrooked House

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