| Pan-European University | |
| Native Name: | Paneurouni / Paneurópska vysoká škola |
| Image Alt: | Pan-European University, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Image Upright: | 0.7 |
| Established: | 2004 |
| Type: | Private |
| Rector: | prof. Ing. Dr.h.c. Juraj Stern, PhD. |
| Director: | RNDr. Michal Mutňanský |
| Students: | 2811 |
| City: | Tomášikova 20, 821 02 Bratislava |
| Country: | Slovakia |
| Coordinates: | 48.159°N 17.1646°W |
| Website: | https://www.paneurouni.com/en/home |
The Pan-European University (PEVŠ) is a private university based in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was founded in 2004 as the Bratislava University of Law, primarily due to its co-founder and co-owner Ján Čarnogurský. The school gradually expanded the number of faculties, and since 2010, it has changed its name to the Pan-European University.
PEVŠ operates as a university with a reputation as a dynamically developing institution of higher education with the ambition to become a center of modern education and research. The very motto "education without borders" of its time captured the essence of taking new paths in higher education and bringing practice-oriented education, in which academics from many countries will participate, while highlighting other aspects of the international dimension of education. PEVŠ has the rights of a doctoral degree (PhD.), It is authorized to conduct rigorous proceedings, as well as habilitation proceedings and appointment procedures of professors. The Pan-European University currently has more than 40 accredited study programs.
The rector since March 15, 2017 is Prof. Juraj Stern. His predecessor was two terms prof. JUDr. Ján Svák, Ph.D.
At present, PEVŠ offers higher education at 5 faculties:
Teaching at the Bratislava University of Law began in 2004, when it was the first private university of law in Slovakia to admit the first students to its Faculty of Law. The Faculty of Economics and Business was opened in 2005, the Faculty of Mass Media was established in 2007 and the Faculty of Informatics in 2009. The youngest faculty of the school is the Faculty of Psychology, which was established in 2011. Since 2010 the school is called the Pan-European University, according to the concept pan-Europeanism, presented in 1923 by Nicolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894 - 1972).
In January 2015, it was announced that the school would be taken over by a Czech holding company belonging to Miroslav Kurk. At the end of 2014, Ján Čarnogurský left the school, the school belonged to the Russians. She had financial problems in 2013. Time has passed since then and the school does not currently have any financial problems. According to the available information, its development has significantly improved and it operates as the best private school currently in Slovakia. Graduates of this school are the best paid economists from among private schools.
PEVŠ supports the constant exchange of knowledge, ideas, information, researchers, educators and students with the world. Since its inception, it has collaborated with prestigious foreign universities and scientific institutions. It is a member of 4 global university clusters, has Erasmus + partnerships and 60 other partner universities in EU countries and 24 other institutions outside Europe. In addition to domestic experts, a high percentage of foreign teachers also give lectures at the faculties, especially from the Czech Republic, Austria, Russia, the USA and Hong Kong.
Since 2011, five plagiarism cases involving German-language final theses at the Pan-European University have been documented. These include the dissertations of Julia Linnert-Kuhn (first reviewer: Eberhard Garbe) and Michael Linnert (supervised by Wolfgang Wiesner and Samuel Brečka), who are the children of Peter Linnert, the managing director of the Hohe Warte Study Center in Vienna. This centre places doctoral candidates from Austria at the Pan-European University in exchange for high fees. The dissertations of the Linnert siblings are almost entirely plagiarized. In the case of Julia Linnert-Kuhn, her father was the second reviewer, and he enlisted his management consultant friend, Heinrich Dick, to write the thesis as a ghostwriter. Linnert also supervised another plagiarism case. According to plagiarism researcher Debora Weber-Wulff, the "Doctor Bratislava" has a poor reputation in the German-speaking world due to such cases.