Why Study with Us?

Our faculty offers courses that are unique in Poland and even Europe. We offer undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs, as well as postgraduate studies. Students may choose from a variety of specialisations to broaden their academic horizons and acquire essential professional skills.

Why study with us? Here’s why:

The highest-ranked history department in Northern Poland (fifth in Poland), renown throughout Europe and globally, an important unit of a thriving university with rich academic and teaching traditions.
Convenient and comfortable facilities for study in the modern, spacious, recently constructed Collegium Humanisticum UMK building, with a faculty library and workspaces. Wheelchair friendly.
A wide range of degree programs, including some unique in Poland and even Europe.
A diverse selection of specialisations that enhance professional and academic competence.
A wide range of foreign language learning opportunities (English, German, French, Russian, and Norwegian).
Outstanding academic staff who combine their passion with work and are keen to share their knowledge during classes, open lectures, workshops, and author’s meetings.
Strongly internationalised teaching and research (scholarships for study abroad – ERASMUS+ or under the Polish-Russian agreement). Professors from abroad.
Opportunity to study at other centres in Poland (the MOST program),
A full range of extra activities – research groups, conferences, and student events,
The only faculty in Poland with a foreign branch (the Polish Historical Mission at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany),
The Faculty of Historical Sciences received a positive institutional assessment from the Polish Accreditation Committee,
Toruń is a friendly and open city for young people curious about their past, with history around every corner,
Following a comprehensive assessment of research and development quality, the Faculty of Historical Sciences at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń was awarded the highest A+ rating.