University of Economics in Bratislava

Study programmes in foreign languages

University of Economics in Bratislava also offers fully accredited study programmes in the English language on a daily basis. One Bachelor and three Master programmes provided by professors-experts from Slovakia and abroad.  In the preparation of the study programmes the employability of special international graduates was taken into account. Our experience confirms that the graduates of these programmes are employable at important positions in Europe and worldwide. All study programmes can be studied in collaboration with prestigious business schools in Europe and Asia and thus, it is possible to obtain a joint or double degree that offers international employability to the graduates.

In the area of management it offers a three-year bachelor's degree programme, Bachelor in Business Economics and Management, which follows a two-year Master in General Management. Both programmes can be studied as a double diploma in cooperation with EM Strasbourg, the Master programme with the School of Business at Ningbo University in China. The area of Finance is covered by a programme Master in International Finance, which works in a partnership with the Nottingham Trent University for the award of the double degree, and the Master's in Global Finance, which can be taken as a double-degree programme in partnership with The National Institute of Development Administration in Bangkok.

In addition to the study programmes in English, the University offers its students more than 150 individual courses in foreign languages (French, German, Spanish, Russian).

Bachelor programmes (in Slovak)

Faculty of National Economy

• Economic Theory and Economic Journalism
• Economics and Law
• Finance, Banking and Investment
• Human Resources and Social Management
• National Economy
• Insurance
• Public Administration and Regional Development

Faculty of Commerce

• International Business
• Business in Tourism and Services
• Business in Trade

Faculty of Economic Informatics

• Economic Informatics
• Decision-making in Management
• Accounting

Faculty of Business Management

• Economy and Management (also in English)
• Financial Management

Faculty of International Rrelations

• International Economic Relations

Faculty of Applied Languages

• Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication

Faculty of Business Economy with seat in Kosice

• Economics and Business Management
• Business and Trade

Master programmes (in Slovak)

Faculty of National Economy

• Banking
• Taxation and Tax Consulting
• Economic Theory and Economic Journalism
• Finance
• Global Finance (in the English language)
• International Finance (in the English language)
• Economic Policy
• Insurance
• Law and Economics
• Social Development and Social Policy
• Public Administration and Regional Development

Faculty of Commerce

• Marketing and Business Management
• International Trade Management
• Tourism Management    
• Sales Management (in French language)

Faculty of Economic Informatics

• Actuarial Science
• Information Management
• Operations Research and Econometrics
• Statistical Methods in Economics
• Accounting and Auditing
• International Finance Management (in German)
• Accounting and Financial Management

Faculty of Business Management

• Business Economics
• Management and Economic Expertise
• Production Management and Logistics
• Corporate Human Resource Management
• Corporate Finance
• General Management

Faculty of International Relations

• Economic Diplomacy

Faculty of Applied Languages

• Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication

Faculty of Business Economy with seat in Kosice

• Financial Management of the Company

PhD programmes (in Slovak)

Faculty of National Economy

• Economic Theory
• Finance and Banking
• Economic Policy
• Insurance
• Public Administration and Regional Development

Faculty of Commerce

• Marketing and Business Management
• International Trade Management

Faculty of Economic Informatics

• Operations Research and Econometrics
• Quantitative Methods in Economics
• Accounting

Faculty of Business Management

• Financial Business Management

Faculty of International Relations

• International Economic Relations

Faculty of Business Economy with seat in Kosice

• Economics and Company Management

Faculty of National Economy

Faculty of National Economy is the oldest faculty at the University of Economics in Bratislava, which plays an important role in education of the economists and belongs to the most respected economic faculties in Slovakia. Training, as well as the scientific research activities of the UEBA in the long term do not only focus on the national economy – on macro-economic level of the national economy, but also on business domain in micro economic areas.

It offers 7 Bachelor's study programmes - economic theory and economic journalism, finance, banking and investing, human resources and social management, the national economy, insurance, public administration and regional development. On the second level it offers 11 Master programmes – banking, taxation and tax consulting, economic theory and economic journalism, finance, economic policy, international finance, insurance, social development and social policy, public administration and regional development. In addition, it offers two programmes in English - the International Finance and Global Finance. In cooperation with the Legal faculty of the Comenius University they provide a bachelor's degree programme in economics and law, and Master's programme Law and Economy. They also offer Slovak and English study in doctoral programmes, such as economic theory, economic policy, finance and banking, insurance, public administration and regional development.

More than 1 500 students study at this Faculty each year, including students from abroad. Students from more than 30 countries from different parts of the world have already studied at this Faculty. The Faculty has developed intensive international cooperation, resulting in a joint double degree with the Nottingham Trent University in the UK, a joint double degree with International College NIDA Bangkok in Thailand and it was hosting foreign professors from top universities. Each year, we send out and host dozens of students in the framework of international exchange programmes, in particular the Erasmus programme. Students of the Faculty often achieve high scores in various economic competitions and awards. The Faculty, for example, can be proud of its awarded student's personalities of the years 2016 and 2017 in the field of economics.

Graduates of the Faculty were engaged in important working positions. Unemployment of the graduates has long marked one of the lowest rates within all Slovak faculties. In addition to the former or current ministers, directors or partners of major national and international companies, three of the four previous Governors of the National Bank of Slovakia are graduates of the Faculty of National Economy. Each year the Faculty intensively cooperates with the practitioners in various forms, there are more than 180 companies involved in cooperation with the Faculty, including major international corporations and international consulting companies.

The core areas of research of the Faculty are economic growth – in particular, its social and environmental consequences, the economic cycle and challenges of economic politics, the labour market, employment and labour market policies, social inclusion and social quality, migration of labour, monetary policy, banking, financial markets, international finance, measurements of performance, risk and failure of business entities, the issues of fiscal stabilization and consolidation of public budgets, tax policy and its impact on the effective collection of taxes, and the elimination of tax evasion, insurance, regional policy of the EU and the Slovak republic and its evaluation, public administration and its reform in the Slovak republic.

Faculty of Commerce

The Faculty of Commerce of the University of Economics in Bratislava is a modern educational institution, which, in cooperation with the economic practices and international environment offers a high quality education in the popular disciplines of economy sciences. The Faculty has had a long and firm place  among other higher education institutions in Slovakia which provide economic education. In relation to the external environment the Faculty has developed a flexible approach to other faculties which offers study programmes based on international comparations, a high-quality professional and personal background,  elaborated literature, professional translations and practical use cases; material-technical applications, but also by its prestige in the economic practices. International relations are based on criteria that are set by the Accreditation Commission in this area. The Faculty prepares specialists for national and international commercial and industrial organizations, consulting companies, institutions of State and Government and the third sector.

The Mission of this Faculty is, in accordance with its statute, to provide a quality economic education, to bring up economic and highly qualified experts in the fields of marketing, trade, international business, tourism, hospitality, services, commercial law, business management and quality, able to succeed in the job market, not only in the region of Central Europe, but also in a broader European and international space, and also to prepare scientific experts for the economic-business studies to meet the needs of higher education and practices in terms  of highly competitive environment, in regard to the public interest.

Talentway as an integral part of education at the Faculty of Commerce is an innovative learning platform, unique not only to the university, but also at the national level, which corresponds to the requirements of the double education of students, linking theory with practice and integration of innovative forms of education. Activities in the framework of the Talentway include teaching in the form of workshops, within the club activities,  internships and job offers during the study for students of the Faculty, the drawing up of the final theses in direct cooperation with the partners from the practice, organizing excursions for students, student support and counseling in setting up their own business start-ups during the study, discovering the talents and the promotion of their placement in the labour market or into business teams.

Talentway enables students to choose one of many theme areas in which they want to improve, and consequently, make their profile in their professional life. Achievements of the Faculty in the past period have been the subject of a comprehensive accreditation, which was successfully held in the year 2015, on the basis of which the Faculty provides, and will continue to provide education in all degrees of higher education studies only in accredited study fields and programmes.

On the 1st degree of study we offer the following study programmes: business in trade, international business, business in tourism and services

On the second degree of study we offer the following  study programmes: marketing and business management, management in international business, management in tourism, management in trade (in the French language)

On the third degree of study we offer the following  study programmes: marketing and business management, management in international business

Faculty of Economic Informatics

The Faculty of Economic Informatics of  the University of Economics in Bratislava has had more than a 50-year history and its scientific activity focuses on the processes related to the preparation, planning, implementation and control of the strategic decisions in all areas of socioeconomic sphere, on processing social and economic information, with an emphasis on the implementation of results into practices within the European area and to work on international projects, in cooperation with foreign universities.

In the field of acturial studies the Faculty focuses on theoretical and practical knowledge of insurance mathematics and in particular on their application in the life, pension and health insurance, on risk modeling and simulations in non-life insurance and investments, on the portfolio theory and derivatives and bonds by using mathematical and actuarial software.

In the field of computer science the Faculty focuses on systemic aspects, mainly on designing, developing and evaluating database information and knowledge-based systems, the issues of decentralized and distributed database computing systems and information networks, information protection and the related areas of information security software and hardware units.

In the field of operation research and Econometrics the Faculty is oriented towards enhancing the general economic knowledge in the field of economic analysis of the national economy and its sectors, development of  methodological mechanism in using analytical methods for the management of economic processes, on macro-economic and micro-economic level, on the basis of methods in operation research and econometrics.

In the field of statistics the Faculty focuses on the development and application of statistical methods in solving current problems of socio-economic issues, particularly on the issue of statistical analyses of the labour market, the social situation of households, setting up and closure of enterprises, wage development, development of the insurance market, quality control, and lifelong learning.

In the field of accounting and auditing the Faculty focuses on exploration and development of the theory and practice of accounting and auditing, with a particular emphasis on the application of national and international (IFRS, IPSAS, ISA) norms and regulations. In particular, it deals with financial and tax accounting, accounting of budgetary and contributory organizations and municipalities, banks, insurance companies, forensic accounting, management accounting, accounting of commercial companies, the analysis of financial statements, internal audit, and the consolidated financial statements.

Graduates of the study programmes of the Faculty are experts in unique areas that are valued and sought by employers operating in the international area.

The quality of knowledge by employees is appreciated also in the labour market. The Faculty cooperates with Slovak and foreign  companies and by organizing seminars and workshops, it sets up a space for the exchange of knowledge and links the theoretical knowledge with the practical experience. The staff of the faculty are members and consultants of committees in the area of decision-making, in the national and international research programmes.

The awards which recognize the quality of students´s knowledge are certificates that students can obtain in the fields of accounting and auditing, ACCA, in the field of acturial science - certificate of the Slovak society of actuaries, in the area of statistics - SAS certificate. A bonus for students is an access to specialized software - SAS, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Pohoda, Datev and the IDEA, on their personal computers and mobile phones, as well as the ability to obtain a double diploma in the German-speaking study programme.

Faculty of Business Management

In the course of its rich history Faculty of business management UE in Bratislava has built up a stable position among institutions of higher education by providing economic education and gained acceptance in the ranks of professionals in Slovakia and abroad.

The scientific research activity of the Faculty-based to address the current problems of economic practices creates the preconditions for building up study programmes for the area of economics and the management of the company. Education and research activities guarantee an adequate training of managers and economists for the corporate and business sphere. The offered degree programmes enable the graduates to find application at different stages in the management of essential cross-cutting areas of corporate activity as well (purchase, production, sales, human resources management, financial and information flows), in different types of enterprises in private and public sector, they also train the students to set up and manage their own business.

The Faculty provides accredited education at all three university levels - Bachelor, Master and PhD.

At the first level the Faculty offers two study programmes:

• The graduate of the study programme economics and management of the company will be trained in the field of business administration and business management to analyze economic phenomena and processes in the company and take managerial decisions.
• The graduate of the study programme financial management gains the knowledge mainly in the field of business economics and corporate finance to apply the tools and methods of financial management in the company.

At the secondary level the Faculty offers six study programmes:

• Economy of the company mediates knowledge in the field of business administration, it focuses on analysis and management of economic processes.
• Management and economic expertise trains specialists for the quantification and evaluation of the level of economic and financial relations.
• Production management and logistics trains managers to manage the pre-production, production and post-production activities in relation to the corporate logistics.
• Personnel management of company provides complex knowledge in the area of human resource management and recruitment processes.
• Business finance train specialists in the area of financial management processes and the adoption of financial decisions.
• General management trains professionals who are capable to identify, analyze and evaluate the processes in the context of the whole company and its environment.

Other activities of the Faculty aimed at improving quality of educational process:

• the harmonization of curricula with comparable courses abroad,
• building and developing partnerships with leading institutions and organizations of the economic working environment,
• innovation forms and methods of education in line with technological progress,
• modernization of the Faculty environment and its communication platform,
• a wide range of subjects taught in foreign languages,
• the possibility of an exchange and internships for students abroad in the framework of mobility ERASMUS+, CEEPUS,  and others,
• the awards for the best students in the fields of study and the scientific research – the price of the Dean, the Platinum Fund.

Faculty of International Relations

Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics in Bratislava was founded in 2000 as the youngest faculty of the UE in Bratislava. The Faculty trains college/university educated professionals in the area of international economic relations. The main mission of the Faculty is to provide a quality education that includes training and mastery of the subject of international economic and political relations, international law and the European Union. A special attention is paid to language training. The Faculty at various stages of study within the field of international economic relations offers the following accredited  courses: international economic relations (Bachelor's degree), economic diplomacy (Master study), international economic relations (doctoral study).

Graduates of the Faculty can work as experts in the field of international relations, international economic relations, economic diplomacy, in the bodies of State administration, the private sector, creative industry, international governmental and non-governmental organizations, etc.

Faculty of international relations is based on the activities of three departments – the Department of international economic relations and economic diplomacy, the Department of international relations and the Department of international law. The purpose of this structure is to bring students a holistic, contextual and complex issues, the perception of international relations and at the same time to ensure the multidimensional research on the level of the Faculty and the University that follows modern trends in the given field.

All the departments in their pedagogical activities try to provide the subjects with a  focus on politics and economics (diplomatic protocol, international economic relations, theories of international economic relations, the European Union, world economics, cultures in international relations, international politics, international organizations and their agencies, international political relations, geopolitics, international trade law, international economic law, the law of the European Union, the international public law, the international criminal law, WTO law, etc.), security (intelligence services and world security, the global crisis at the beginning of the 21st century, security policy, etc.) and also, the territorial (economies of developing countries, the regional aspect of the world economy, the economy of the European Union, the political systems of the Anglo-Saxon countries, political systems of the countries of Latin America, the Middle East in international politics, Central Asia in world politics, etc.). Many of the mandatory subjects are, in accordance with the accreditation, taught in one of the world's languages – in English or Russian. Optional subjects can be studied in the German and the Spanish language.

The scientific research and publishing activities of the teaching staff of the Faculty is focused on the issues of the world economy, international economic and political relations, the European Union, International law and International security. The staff of the faculty are currently involved in national and international projects within their scientific and research activity. The results of the scientific research work of professors and doctoral students of the Faculty are published in hundreds of scientific articles in national and foreign journals, many of which are registered in the databases of Web of Science or Scopus.

The involvement of students in the life of the Faculty is carried out not only through a direct co-working with the teachers themselves, but also by organizations, such as the Student Parliament of the UEBA or the Euro-Atlantic center in Bratislava that offer students interesting extra-curricular opportunities. A rich network of international cooperation gives students the opportunity to spend a part of their studies at partner universities, not only in the EU, but also in other countries of Europe, America and Asia.

Faculty of Applied Languages

The main mission of the Faculty of applied languages at the University of Economics in Bratislava (FAL) is to provide a high-quality education, which involves a high level of communicative competence in two languages (English – German, English-French, English-Spanish, German-French, German, Spanish), intercultural communication, basic economics, law and selected disciplines in social sciences. In addition, Faculty of applied languages provides teaching foreign languages for all the faculties of the University of Economics in Bratislava.

The aim of the FAL concept is to prepare qualified professionals who meet the demanding criteria for the work in state administration, international institutions, multinational companies and national companies. Graduates of the faculty have a good communicative competence in a number of more languages, knowledge of the Slovak language, as well as the ability to apply the acquired knowledge in practice.

FAL is one of the few Slovak linguistic-focused institutions which does not offer the classic filology study, but it responds to the suggestions of the Slovak and European labour market. It provides the foreign language study in a modern way with a view to enhancing language skills in specific, particularly in economic and social fields. However, the traditional approaches towards the study and research of foreign languages are not left behind as well.

The Faculty consists of teachers participating in the programme “Foreign languages and intercultural communication” and of colleagues who teach foreign languages (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Russian) for other faculties of the University of Economics in Bratislava. Furthermore, the attractivity of the study at the faculties of the University of Economics, and a better position in the competition with other economy-focused institutions increases the quality of the language training provided.

An emphasis on the development of language skills and competences, intercultural communication and interdisciplinary approaches towards  the study fields belong to the principles of the educational process which enables the graduates of the new Faculty to find a wide range of working positions in the labour market. The foreign language acquisition and the acquisition of bi-cultural, and multicultural competence expands the European dimension of education in a compliance with the current trend.

An integral part of the international activities of the Faculty represents cooperation with foreign educational institutions, which include educational exchanges of teachers and students, research projects and lectures of international experts. Now the Faculty of applied languages of the University of Economics in Bratislava on the basis of the framework or bilateral agreements cooperates with 19 educational institutions in 7 countries of Europe.

FAL has an interdisciplinary character of study, which ranks among the modern educational institutions that respond to different conditions in different cultures of the globalized world.

FAL in the academic year 2009/10 started to provide a 3-year bachelor's degree programme of Foreign languages and intercultural communication, which formally ends with the defense of final thesis and a State exam. Since 2012/13 students can study a Master's study programme Foreign languages and intercultural communication.

Faculty of Business Economy with seat in Košice

University of Economics in Bratislava has 7 faculties and one of them is the Faculty of Business Economy of University of Economics in Bratislava with its seat in Košice (FBE), which was established in 1992 and is the only faculty located outside of Bratislava.

The FBE has a long history and experience in training of graduates in economy and management . The Faculty has existed since 1952, when the College of Economics in Bratislava as a consultative center for part-time courses was founded. The Faculty provides training for economists in all forms of study, in the internal form, external form, Bachelor study, Master study, and PhD study, based on the latest scientific knowledge in a broad international context. During its history, the FBE has brought up thousands of successful graduates who have found their jobs at all the high positions of private companies and also, in scientific institutions or organizations of public administration.

In addition to the newly-built and modern equipped rooms in the historic center of the city of Košice (Tajovsky street 13) the FBE offers a variety of study programmes, plus, since 1994 at the Institute of Pedagogy in Michalovce.

Since 2008 FBE has introduced a quality management system based on the standards of ISO 900X. In the years 2008 and 2010 the Faculty was given a National award of the Slovak Republic for quality, a price which annually goes from the Slovak office of standards, metrology and testing.  In 2008 the Faculty was awarded in the category C3 - other public sector organizations, and in the  2010 "Award winning finalist in the category C3 ".

Students of the FBE achieve significant success abroad as well. Examples include 4th place in the world finals of the international competition of the Global Management Challenge in Macao, China, in 2016, and participation in the world finals of the international competition of the Global Management Challenge in Qatar in 2017.

A great deal of attention is given to unique training programmes and subjects in cooperation with leading employers of the Faculty graduates. An example of this effort is a unique programme HONORIS based on the cooperation with the company T-Systems Slovakia s. r. o. It is a practically-oriented programme with an emphasis on the issues of project management, conducted in the English language and by experts from the company T-Systems Slovakia s. r. o. It has a 100% success in the employment of graduates who participated in the programme. This programme is offered only for students of the Faculty. 

The Faculty extensively collaborates with all relevant employers of the graduates of FBE, among which there are mainly companies, such as T-Systems Slovakia  s. r. o., Lafarge Holcim European Business Services, Embraco Slovakia s. r. o., as well as all relevant information- communication, banking, financial and audit companies operating in Slovak Republic.  Based on this cooperation, the Faculty can flexibly adapt their study programmes for the needs of market and  provide joint events for students in cooperation with businesses, lectures of experts, organizing workshops for students, practitioners, elaboration of Master theses in companies, as well as the possibility of participating in a variety of other programmes, internships and gaining job offers directly from companies. The positive results of study at the FBE are seen in graduates who have no difficulty to find employment in the labour market, to be self-employed or to set up a business.