GRADUATE ZONE

For free 

Are you our graduate? Great! This means that you can join the group of the UL Alumni Card holders and take advantage of discounts from our Partners. You can order your card for free if you hold a diploma of any undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, postgraduate or MBA programme from the University of Lodz. The UL graduates who decided to continue their studies as part of the University’s second-cycle and third-cycle programmes may also apply for the Card.

Our distinguished VIP Graduates help talented students

Your development doesn't have to be limited to classes and participation in science clubs. If you know which direction you want to go after graduation or, on the contrary, you are deeply interested in a particular issue but don't know how to turn it into a satisfying career path - find out what the University of Lodz mentorship project offers. As part of the project our great graduates, representatives of business, culture and media, advise  students from the University and help them plan their career path.

University of Lodz has an over 75-year tradition of dialogue, freedom of academic discussion and transfer of knowledge. The unity of science, didactics, education and development means that for years the University has been educating responsible, open and tolerant people with broad intellectual horizons.

Following in the footsteps of the best universities in the world and with the aim of strengthening ties with Graduates, since 2013 the University of Lodz has been implementing the VIP Alumni programme addressed to the most outstanding Graduates of the University – a group of successful people and experts, including personalities from the world of science, art, politics and business. The programme offers various forms of activity and valuable initiatives for the development of Polish education.

The VIP Alumni programme is an original and innovative initiative of the University of Lodz, which includes, among others:

• EXPERT LECTURES and periodic meetings of VIP Alumni
• VIP ALUMNI MENTORSHIP PROJECT for the most ambitious students of the University of Lodz
• SPECIAL EVENTS, e.g. World Alumni Convention as part of the 70th anniversary of the University of Lodz

During regular meetings, other distinguished Graduates receive from Her Magnificence Rector the prestigious title of ‘VIP Alumnus/a of University of Lodz’, as well as a ceramic statuette – an apple as a symbol of hard work and an announcement of fruitful cooperation with Alma Mater.

A unique career and special achievements require remarkable honouring.
When designing the VIP Alumnus/a statuette, we used the experience and talent of an artist-craftsman to make each shape unique. The apple is both a symbolic fruit of hard work put into acquiring knowledge and broadening one's own horizons, and a ripe fruit from the branches of the great tree of knowledge, which the University brings to our lives.
 

In October 2019, the University of Lodz launched a project entitled: "Building a bond with international graduates - Linked to UL" as part of the International Alumni programme funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange. The main goal of the project is to maintain links with graduates from the University of Lodz who come from abroad.

As part of the project, a study called Tracking international graduates’ professional careers in the last five years was carried out. The University of Lodz has invited its international graduates to share information about their professional careers. The study allowed UL to learn more about further

professional development of graduates and to show that they are still a part of University’s community. The study covered 860 (370 studied in English and 490 in Polish) alumni of all Faculties of the University, and in all fields of study who graduated in the academic years 2014/2015 - 2018/2019.

The respondents in the survey were asked to wonder if they could choose again, would they decide to study again at the same university and the same field of study. In total, more than 75% of the surveyed stated that they would have chosen the University of Lodz again, and nearly 50% of the respondents would once again start their education in the same field of study.

59% of the graduates answered that they live and work in Poland, and most often in Łódź (Lodz - as many as 2/3 of all those declaring to live in Poland). Below a few profiles of our successful Alumni are presented.

Alumni experience

The experience of the Alumni is one of the most valuable sources of knowledge for improving the methods of teaching and study programmes at the University of Lodz. The University is keen to know more about our Alumni’s career paths, professional achievements and possible challenges. Through sharing these experiences, the University of Lodz will have a better understanding of how studying at UL influenced Alumni’s lives.

The life stories of our graduates will form the basis for the introduction of a number of activities designed to share experiences and skills between the Alumni and the current or prospective students of UL.

The University of Lodz would like to engage the Alumni in the following areas:

• Alumni success stories
• Alumni guest lectures
• Alumni mentoring

Our Alumni are our best Ambassadors!­­

The Project Linked to UL has been run by:

International Relations Office

ul. Uniwersytecka 3, room 1 90-137 Łódź tel.: +48 42 635 42 37 www.iso.uni.lodz.pl e-mail: alumni@uni.lodz.pl

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The Project is financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange under the International Alumni Programme.

Starting your own business, the arcana of a successful job interview or an in-depth study of management topics. Training courses for graduates from the University of Lodz let them deepen their knowledge and reinforce their presence in the labour market.

From administration, through speech therapy, to integrated development management. Post-graduate programmes at the University of Lodz are an A-to-Z proposal for those who want to continue their education and obtain new diplomas.