The University of Zielona Góra was founded on the basis of the Parliamentary Law of June 07th, 2001. However, the date may be misleading. The academic tradition of the city goes back to 1965, when the Higher School of Engineering was founded, subsequently transformed into the Technical University.  In 1971 the academic offer of Zielona Góra was extended to prospective teachers, when the Teacher Training College was founded, in 1973 transformed into Tadeusz Kotarbiński Pedagogical University. The University of Zielona Góra was founded through a merger of the Technical University and the Pedagogical University, thus becoming the biggest state institution of higher education in the Lubuskie Province. In the academic year 2012/2013, the University offered undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral courses to 15,500 of intramural and extramural students.

The University of Zielona Góra is located in the elite group of classical Polish universities.

The University is entitled to confer post-doctoral degrees in five areas: Astronomy, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, History and Mathematics, and doctoral degrees in 15 areas: Astronomy, Automatics and Robotics, Biology, Machine Building and Operation, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Philosophy, Physics, History, IT, Environmental Engineering, Literature Studies, Mathematics, Environment Protection and Education.

The mission of the University:

The mission of the University of Zielona Góra is to equalize the opportunities for development of the region and its inhabitants and to increase the intellectual, economic and artistic potential by educating well-qualified staff and conducting advanced research. The task of the University is to prepare highly qualified employees demanded by the region, Poland and the United Europe.'

The vision of the University

‘As a full-fledged university, UZ intends to expand the scope of fields in which it can confer doctoral and post-doctoral degrees. All basic organizational units of the University are expected to be granted the highest research categories. The academic staff plans to conduct high standard academic and research work and participate actively in the European Research Space and the European System of Higher Education. To a large extent the work will be financed from state and EU academic and research grants. The University of Zielona Góra hopes to initiate and support the cooperation with public institutions and business.’

University's website:

http://www.uz.zgora.pl