Established in 1973, the University of Crete accepted its first students in 1977-78. Today, the institute boasts of 16 Departments in 5 Schools - Philosophy, Education, Social, Economic & Political Sciences, Sciences & Engineering, and Medicine as well as a number of affiliated research-oriented institutions including the Skinakas Observatory, the Natural History Museum, and the University General Hospital. With over 18,000 undergraduates and 3000 postgraduate students registered here, the University of Crete ensures that the students are educated by an outward-looking academic faculty of around 450 members, supported
by adjunct lecturers, post-doctoral researchers, laboratory staff and instructors, as well as around 300 technical and administrative staff.
Reflecting its research activity and associated initiatives, the University of Crete is the first Greek University to have signed the EU Charter and the Code for the recruitment of researchers, and forms part of the Euraxess European network for the mobility of researchers. The University also fully participates in quality assurance mechanisms both for its academic and administrative structures, and it is a strategic choice of the University that there will be an
ongoing effort to meet quality in all its structures. When it comes to international admissions, the orientation of the University is reflected in its track record of collaborations with many of the leading research and educational institutions in Europe and worldwide along with active promotion of mobility and exchange programmes. Research and research training at all levels benefits also from the de facto regional cluster of research institutions i.e. the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology & Aquaculture (IMBBC), the University General Hospital (PagNi) as well as the other HEIs in Crete.
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