University of Hradec Králové

The University of Hradec Králové (in Czech Univerzita Hradec Králové, UHK; in Latin Universitas Reginaegradecensis) is a public university and one of the most significant educational and research institutions in the East Bohemian region, located in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, founded on 21 June 2000. It traces its roots back to 1959, which was renamed the University of Education in Hradec Králové (Vysoká škola pedagogická v Hradci Králové; VŠP) in 1992. The university has about 6,000 students, and the current rector is Jan Kříž, who assumed the position in 2024.

The university consists of four faculties: the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Informatics and Management, the Philosophical Faculty, and the Faculty of Science.

The university's precursor institution, the Institute of Education in Hradec Králové, was established in 1959, to train teachers for elementary level education, until then educated in high schools. In 1964, the institution developed into the Faculty of Education Hradec Králové. Training for all education levels began after a higher education reform in Czechoslovakia in 1976.

After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, some former staff from before 1968 returned to the faculty. In 1992 the Pedagogical University of Hradec Králové was officially established. On 15 February 1993, the university started expanding and a new Faculty of Management and Information Technologies was added, subsequently renamed the Faculty of Informatics and Management in 2000, the same year as the University of Hradec Králové was adopted as the official name.

On 1 September 2005, university added a third faculty, the Faculty of Arts, later known as the Philosophical Faculty. On 1 September 2010, after the transformation of the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Science was formed.