The university has more than 7,500 employees, 4,000 of these being academic and research staff. Over 51,000 students are studying at Charles University (which is roughly a sixth of all students in the Czech Republic), in more than 300 accredited degree programmes and 660 study disciplines. More than 18,000 are studying in bachelor's programmes, 25,000 in master's programmes and more than 7,000 in doctoral programmes. Over 6,000 students are from abroad.
Throughout its history, Charles University was always one of the most important centres of education and science in the country. Among the graduates there are many great scientists, artists, inventors, philosophers etc. To name just a few: Bernard Bolzano, mathematician and philosopher; Karel Èapek, writer whom we thank for the invention of the word "robot"; Jaroslav Heyrovský, chemist and inventor, awarded by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Jan Hus, 14th century philosopher and reformer; Milan Kundera, writer; Jan Evangelista Purkynì, anatomist and physiologist or Nikola Tesla, one of the most known inventors in the world... to top this list, just a few names of those who cooperated with the University while staying in Prague: Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Albert Einstein, Rudolf Carnap.
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