More than a thousand students study at the faculty, of which mainly students of master's and doctoral programmes are regularly involved in creative activities and the implementation of their own research activities. The study is carried out in a credit system based on the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).

The University of Ostrava provides higher education in bachelor, master, further master and doctoral study programmes. We offer the opportunity to study various disciplines at the Faculty of Social Studies, Faculty of Arts or Faculty of Philosophy, Medicine, Education or Science.

Faculty offering degree programs in general medicine and non-medical health professions. The faculty includes the departments of internal medicine, surgery, anatomy, histology and embryology or biomedical sciences, pathological anatomy and forensic medicine as well as others.

The SIMLEK Simulation Centre of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ostrava has the same equipment as a real hospital. There is medical equipment and parts of pre-hospital care.