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In 1970 the University of Ioannina, an independent Higher Education Institution was founded in Ioannina, which grew rapidly in the coming years.
Today, the University of Ioannina includes 17 academic Departments which altogether number 13,523 undergraduate students. A number of organised postgraduate study programmes are on offer that combine taught and research elements both at Master's and Doctoral level. Approximately 1,300 students are involved in full-time study mode progressing to a Master's degree, while 2,217 students are currently pursuing their studies at Doctoral level.
Welcome to the website of the University of Ioannina, the Higher Education Institution of Epirus. Here, you may find an overview of the university's historical development, as well as of its academic, institutional and administrative structure and functions.
The basic autonomous academic units of the University are the Departments, which reflect the traditional division of the various fields of science. Groups of related Departments form Schools, which represent the wider areas and fields of knowledge.
Foreign students can only be
admitted to Higher Education in
Greece, and thus to the
University of Ioannina or any
of the other 21 Higher Education Institutions, through the Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs, Directorate of Organising and Conducting Examinations.
The University of Ioannina currently has formal exchange agreements with a large number of Universities - in mainland Europe - through the well-established ERASMUS programme of the European Commission. The University of Ioannina welcomes foreign students who wish to expand their academic horizons by spending a semester or a year studying in Ioannina