University of Life Sciences in Lublin

UP Lublin is based in the largest city in eastern Poland, around 100 miles south-west of the capital, Warsaw. It was formed in 1955, when the faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Science separated from Marie Curie Sklodowska University to link with the faculty of zootronics that had formed only two years earlier. Initially Lublin High School of Agriculture, it was raised to university status in 1972, and took on its current name in 2008.

UP Lublin prioritises three areas: the techniques and technology of food production, shaping and protecting the environment of human life, and health and healthy lifestyles.

Its existing faculties of agrobioengineering, animal science and bioeconomy, food science and biotechnology, horticulture and landscape architecture, production engineering and veterinary medicine were supplemented by a seventh, environmental biology, in 2019.

At the beginning of 2022 it enrolled 6635 students, more than 5,000 of them full-time, across 52 fields of study, 40 conducted in Polish and 12 in English, including the five-and-a-half-year course in veterinary science.

UP Lublin has a number of research centres devoted to the study of specific breeds or groups of animals, including the Centre for Riding and Hippotherapy, based on an experimental farm at Felina. Research on horses includes the value of music in calming temperamental racehorses, while the university’s apiarists discovered that cannabis extract improves the health and life expectancy of bees by strengthening their immune systems.