Západočeská univerzita v Plzni branches

The Faculty of Education is the oldest faculty of ZČU offering both teacher and non-teacher study programmes (Bachelor, Master, Continuing Master and Doctoral). It also provides further education for teaching staff, Children's University and offers a number of courses and programmes for the public.

Since 2000, the Research Center has been dedicated to research and solutions for green technologies and advanced materials in the areas of green energy, smart transportation, and quality of human life and health.

The faculty consists of the departments of power machinery and equipment, machine design, materials and engineering metallurgy, industrial engineering and management, machining technology, physical education and sports. We operate the Research Centre for Forming Technologies and the Regional Institute of Technology.

The faculty consists of the departments of physics, computer science and computer engineering, cybernetics, mathematics, mechanics and geomatics. We offer bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs. We also provide a research programme on New Technologies for Information Societies.

The Department of Lifelong and Distance Learning Concepts coordinates activities and projects of the University of West Bohemia in the field of lifelong learning, e-learning and popularization of science. It provides organizational, methodological and technical support for e-learning at ZČU. The department provides courses for the public, companies and employees.

Consultancy on EU and other international educational projects, coordination of the ERASMUS+ programme, advice to foreign students, mediation of foreign contacts, information on scholarship opportunities abroad, organisation of a programme for foreign delegations.

The Faculty of Education is the oldest faculty of ZČU offering both teacher and non-teacher study programmes. We provide programmes of combined studies and lifelong learning for future teachers of the first level of primary school.