| University of Opole | |
| Native Name: | Uniwersytet Opolski |
| Language: | pl |
| Type: | Public |
| Established: | 1994 |
| Rector: | Marek Masnyk |
| City: | Opole |
| Country: | Poland |
| Affiliations: | Socrates-Erasmus |
| Students: | 8,734[1] (12.2023) |
| Qs Eeca: | 241-250 |
| Qs Eeca Year: | 2022 |
| Qs Eeca Ref: | [2] |
The University of Opole (pl|Uniwersytet Opolski) is a public university in the city of Opole. It was founded in 1994 from a merger of two parallel educational institutions. The university has 17,500 students completing 32 academic majors and 53 specializations. The staff numbers 1,380 - among them are 203 professors and habilitated doctors and 327 doctors.
The university confers Licentiate, Master's, doctoral, and post-doctoral degrees.
It educates students in forty-seven primary fields of study, both in full-time and part-time programs. For several years, the University of Opole has been an interdisciplinary institution with a predominance of humanities courses.[3] It consists of twelve faculties, twenty institutes, and twelve intercollegiate units, including the Main Library, the Foreign Language Centre, and the Physical Education and Sports Centre.[4]
The University of Opole publishes a peer-reviewed academic journal Economic and Environmental Studies (print:, online:), which deals with economics, environment, and sustainable development, with contributions from academics from all over Europe and Australia.[5] Within the field of economics it belongs to the new institutional economics.[6] The journal is published by the University of Opole and was established in 2001. The editors-in-chief are Joachim Ahrens and Joost Platje.[6]