Dear Prospective Student,
Thank you for considering the University of Nicosia. Our University Guide will assist you in making an informed decision about joining our vibrant community. I do hope that you will entrust us with shaping your future career and with preparing you to become an active global citizen.
We stand ready to jointly work with you towards realising your dreams. The University of Nicosia is a modern, innovative, and internationally top-ranked academic institution, dedicated to excellence in education. Our focus on implementing the “Knowledge Square” ensures that we are committed in serving the four pillars underpinning a high quality, successful and sustainable university: teaching and learning, research, innovation, and contribution to society and culture.
During your studies, you will experience a student-centred environment that promotes active self-learning and lifelong skills and competences. Our state-of-the-art premises and innovative e-learning platform will provide you access to extensive online learning resources. Moreover, our multicultural learning environment promotes cooperation, friendship and understanding, facilitating a place of study that celebrates diversity and inclusion.
As an entrepreneurial digital university, we respond to, and shape the needs of, the knowledge-based society we live in. We thus offer a fully digital educational environment, inspired by technology and driven by pedagogy, that promotes teaching, learning and innovation. Our diverse academic programmes are developed in collaboration with industry stakeholders to meet global needs and ensure professional recognition, resulting in high employability for our alumni across various sectors worldwide.
We offer cross-border education through joint programmes with prestigious European universities and are a proud member of the NEOLAiA European University Alliance (https://neolaiacampus.eu), working towards building an innovative European University of the Future with campuses in nine cities/countries.
Our commitment to research brings innovative knowledge to your classes, supported by funded projects and collaborations with local and international industries. We also emphasise Open and Citizen Science, delivering substantial societal benefits. As a civic university, driven by our commitment towards contributing to Society and Culture, we actively support the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 SDGs, aiming to create a better, more inclusive, and peaceful world.
Our outstanding ranking achievements, particularly by the 2025 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, place us among the Top 2% of universities globally. Specifically, we rank among the Top 501-600 universities in the world, 149th in the European Union, and 2nd in Cyprus
and Greece (joint position). We are also proud to rank 1st in Cyprus in Research Quality.
We are confident that your studies with us will meet your intellectual queries, fuel your aspirations, and positively shape your future career. Your student life at the University of Nicosia will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
I look forward to welcoming you to the University of Nicosia community.
Professor Philippos Pouyioutas
BSc, MSc, PhD, CertEd
