The University of Ostrava (Czech Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě) is situated in the city of Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It is the youngest public university in Ostrava and consists of 6 faculties and 2 institutes providing comprehensive university education to students in daily as well as combined forms of learning in bachelor, master, follow-up master and doctoral degree programmes of studies.
In January 2012, it began to merge with the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava with the aim of becoming the third largest university in the Czech Republic and to achieve the statute of a research univerzity. The merger should have been completed by 2015, the name of the new university is still to be determined.
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