Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Žilina

Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Žilina was founded on July 17th 1990 by approval of University Senate. The main idea of foundation was integration of developing knowledge from ICT in the Faculty Programmes of study. That was above all students and staff from Department of Technical Cybernetics existing from 1972 on the University (in that time University of Transport and Communication, Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering). From this time University and Faculty were going through many changes and development connected by evolution, as well events, caused by society changes and corresponding legislative. Activities of the Faculty are determined by new trends of information and communication technology development, where the high priority task is to insure the continual interconnection between research, education and acceptation of postgraduates in the praxis. The main education and professional activities lie with fields as design and realization of technical tools for information and control systems, analysis, synthesis and design of integrated information and control systems, management, marketing, logistics, entrepreneurship, activity of transportation and communication systems, control and optimization of goods and passenger transport, control and optimization of databases design and their transmission and data processing, problematic of multimedia information systems and graphic information systems, simulation mediums for communication networks and systems and mathematical modelling. Faculty of Management Science and Informatics offers the study in all three levels programmes of study (Bachelor, Master and Doctoral). All programmes are officially approved by the Accreditation Commission of the Slovak Republic. The programmes are interdisciplinary; they were conceived and created based on many years of the Faculty’s successful research and educational tradition.