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Masaryk University and the Faculty of Social Studies
Masaryk University
 Masaryk University is the second largest university in the Czech Republic in terms of number of students. It comprises of nine faculties - Law, Medicine, Science, Education, Economics and Administration, Informatics, Social Studies, and Sports Studies - and more than 200 departments and institutes.
Masaryk University links high requirements for original research with systematic efforts to create the conditions for quality university education, corresponding with the demands placed on the qualifications by the employment market in a modern society. The recent introduction of the three-year Bachelor's and two-year Master's degree model, as well as of a university-wide credit system based on the principles of the European Credit Transfer System has ensured greater flexibility and helped foster the internationalization of curricula. Masaryk University was the first university in the Czech Republic to accept applications electronically.
In 2009, Masaryk University ranked 27th among the Top 100 universities in Europe according to
Webometrics ranking.
Masaryk University promotional video (at youtube)
Faculty of Social Studies
The Faculty of Social Studies was established at Masaryk University in Brno in 1998. Until then, the social sciences had been part of the Faculty of Arts. The emergence of the independent faculty affirmed Masaryk University as an international center for sociological, psychological and political science research. The Faculty’s Department of Sociology was founded in 1921 and is one of the oldest workplaces of its kind in Europe.
The faculty focuses on both education and research in the fields of Sociology, Political Science, International Relations, European Studies, Psychology, Media Studies and Journalism, Social Policy and Social Work, and Environmental Studies, with the recent additions of Gender Studies, Social Anthropology and Strategic and Security Studies. It is fully committed to linking educational activities with its own research projects. Individual degree
programs are based on the internationally recognized credit system (ECTS) and are divided into Bachelor's, Master's, and doctoral levels. Degree
programs are continually being adapted in response to changes in society and its needs.
The Faculty achieved membership in two international degree
programs. Since 2005, Masaryk University is a member of the consortium that offers the interdisciplinary
European Master’s
Program in Human Rights And Democratization (E.MA) and from the 2008/2009 academic year, it was admitted into joint European PhD. on Social Representations and
Communication. It offers several graduate programs in English.
Each year, several international conferences featuring contributions from prominent
scholars take place. The opportunities for students and employees to study and work abroad are increasing from year to year: the Faculty’s numerous LLP/ERASMUS agreements with partner institutions all over Europe, and Masaryk University’s membership in international networks (Utrecht Network and the Compostella Group) and programs (Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window, ISEP, etc.) lead to other possibilities for studying abroad.
Contacts have been established with a wide range of universities in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and Australia.
University Development
 Masaryk University is undergoing dynamic development. Since 2000 the university has completely reconstructed several of its premises in the center of the city (including the new building of the Faculty of Social Studies) and has almost finished a new, modern teaching and
research area at the university campus Brno-Bohunice. The Faculties of Medicine, Sports and partly the Faculty of Sciences already benefit from this unique teaching and research complex. The university has also established the first Czech polar station in Antarctica.
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