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The Dean's Office:
ul. Ćwiklinskiej 2
35-601 Rzeszów
tel. +48 17 872 16 05 / 11

Pl. Ofiar Getta 4/5
35-002 Rzeszów
tel. +48 17 872 20 83

The Faculty employs 97 academic teachers including 4 professors, 13 post-doctoral degree holders, 53 doctors, 27 Master's degree holders, 10 technical staff.

The Faculty of Economics incorporates the following departments and units:

• Theory of Economics Department - head prof. dr hab. Michał Gabriel Woźniak
  
• International Economic Relations Department - head prof. dr hab. Stanisław Wydymus
  
• Marketing Department - head prof. dr hab. inż. Sylwester Makarski
  
• Finance Unit - head prof. UR dr hab. Jerzy Kitowski
  
• Economics and Enterprise Organisation Unit - head prof. UR dr hab. Roman Fedan
  
• Economic Policy and Agribusiness Unit - head prof. UR dr hab. Adam Czudec
  
• Econometrics and Statistics Unit - head prof. UR dr hab. Elżbieta Maksymiak
  
• Quantity Methods Unit - head prof. UR dr hab. Mieczysław Jan Król
  
• Scientific and Didactic Laboratory of Economic Information Technology - head dr inż. Colin F. Hales

Programmes offered by the faculty

• Full-time and part-time 3-year BA degree courses (daily, evening and weekend)
  
• Full-time and part-time 2-year complementary MA degree courses (daily, evening and weekend)
  
• Post-graduate

History of the faculty

The Faculty of Economics started its activity as part of the University on 1 September 2001. The Faculty is a young and still developing unit based on the attainments and perennial experience of the universities from which it emerged, namely: Rzeszów Faculty of Economics of the H. Kołłątaj Academy of Agriculture in Cracow and the Faculty of Economics of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Branch Rzeszów. The Faculty successfully continues their perennial academic tradition.

The main areas of academic research

Scientific research is the basis for the development of both the Faculty and the workplace of the academic teachers who influence the effective accomplishment of the didactic process and the goals associated with it. Detailed research focuses around current social and economic issues connected with:

• Processes of economic growth and development
  
• Development conditions of enterprise and adaptation of subjects to new market conditions
  
• Social, economic and institutional conditionings of agribusiness development
  
• Economics of agriculture and rural areas as well as the dynamics of structural changes in agriculture and rural areas
  
• Conditionings of the regional and local development with a focus on contemporary developmental priorities (competitiveness, cohesion, multi-functional sustainable development)
  
• Marketing management in companies and effective use of marketing tools and actions
  
• Market mechanisms of developing quality
  
• Economic effectiveness, assessment of a company's financial situation, financial assessment of investments
  
• Enterprise restructuring processes and transformations of social and economic structures
  
• Supporting economic processes with the use of modern information technology tools and network techniques

Within the above mentioned areas there are dozens of particular topics worked on, which constitute the basis of the staff scientific development (doctorate and post-doctoral dissertations).
Since 2005 the master's studies at the Faculty of Economics have been carried out in a two-stage system as a result of the adjustment to the guidelines of the "Bologna Declaration", which gives an opportunity of achieving knowledge and skills in compliance with the European Union standards. The first stage of education is completed with a vocational BA degree. The curriculum prepares a student for work or allows them to continue the studies for a master's degree. The continuation may cover the same or similar areas of studies.

The program of education carried out at the Faculty of Economics enables the achievement of a broad economic knowledge and the skills necessary to function on the competitive labour market. Within the Faculty the University offers the following specialties:

• Enterprise economics
  
• Agribusiness economics
  
• Regional and local economy

There are also post-graduate studies run at the Faculty of Economics.

International co-operation

The Faculty boasts scientific international co-operation which has been developed over a number of years. Our partners in that field are: Huddersfield University and Abertay Dundee in the UK, Stockholm University, Zaragoza University in Spain, the Jurij Fedkowicz National University in Czerniowce, Ukraine, Management Faculty of the University in Presov, Slovakia, Koszyce Faculty of Bratislava University.
The co-operation consists of conducting scientific research and exchanging both people (staff and students) and experience (didactic and scientific).
The students of the Faculty of Economics can also study at Huddersfield University and Abertay Dundee in the UK and within Socrates/Erasmus Programme at Universidad de Politecnica Valencia, Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha in Ciudad Real (Spain), Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden (Holland), Vitus Bering University College (Denmark), Thomas Bata University in Zlin (Czech Republic), University of Oradea (Romania), West University of Timisoara (Romania), "1 Decembrie 1918" University in Alba Iulia (Romania), Sakarya University (Turkey).
Moreover, the Faculty of Economics gives its students a chance to go for traineeships to the UK within the Leonardo da Vinci program. There are many students who are very interested in these.
Coordinator for International Programmes - dr inż. Bogdan Wierzbiński.

Under resolution no. 201/2006 PKA (The State Accreditation Committee) of 16th March 2006 on the "Assessment of the quality of Education" the Faculty of Economics received a positive assessment.