Metropolitan University Prague (, MUP) is one of the oldest and largest private universities in the

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. It was founded in 2001 as the University of Public Administration and International Relations. It has been ranked by the Czech Ministry of Education as the highest quality social science institution in the Czech Republic.

History

The university was founded in 2001 and is among the oldest private tertiary education institutions in the Czech Republic. In 2007, the school received the status of a university according to the Czech education law, allowing it to carry out

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study programs. In the same year, the school change its name from the University of Public Administration and International Relations to Metropolitan University Prague. Since its foundation until 2023, the university has produced more than 17 thousand graduates.

Academics

The university provides Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. studies as full-time or part-time study. Courses offered include:

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Studies,

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and

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and English),

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. The school hosts yearly around 200 students within the

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programmes. MUP is also recognized for its scientific and research activities in various social science fields. The university's academics actively contribute to numerous scientific projects both domestically and internationally, including grants awarded by the European Research Agency (REA), the Czech Science Foundation (CSF) and others. In terms of scientific performance, the university received the highest rating among all Czech private schools by the Government Council for Research, Development, and Innovation as of 2022. MUP houses several scientific centers, including the Center for Security Studies (C4SS), the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), and the African Studies Center (ASC). The university hosts invited lectures by notable global figures. On Saturday, March 14, 2009, the university organized a conference titled "European Model for Peace in the Middle East," featuring a speech by Álvaro de Soto, a Peruvian diplomat and former Special Envoy of the

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for the Middle East peace process. On May 9, 2016, seven African ambassadors to the Czech Republic and high commissioners participated in a discussion with students on the future of

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

. On November 22, 2022, the Japanese ambassador Hideo Suzuki delivered a lecture at the university, and on December 13 of the same year, the Mexican ambassador R. Leonora Rueda gave a presentation at MUP. Since 2007, the university's International Relations and European Studies Department has published a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal entitled the

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Alumni

Notable alumni include

Jana Černochová Jana Černochová (born 26 October 1973) is a Czech politician who has served as Ministry of Defence (Czech Republic), Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala since December 2021. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the C ...

, the Czech Minister of Defence since 2021, Markéta Sluková, the Czech volleyball player,

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, the former Czech Member of Parliament and Tomáš Drahoňovský, the Czech news reporter.

References

External links

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