- established in 1948, over 70 years of experience in education
- over 10 000 students, including over 400 foreign students
- five Faculties located in Katowice Ligota, Zabrze, Bytom and Sosnowiec
- educates doctors, dentists, pharmacists, medical analysts, medical biotechnologists, as well as specialists in the field of public health, emergency medicine, dietetics, nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, cosmetology, neurobiology, electroradiology, health risk management and medical coaching
- in 2017-2020 was included in the Chinese Academic Ranking of World Universities (the so-called Shanghai List), listing the 1000 best universities in the world
- in the Spanish Webometrics Ranking of World Universities of January 2022, the university took 31st place in Poland and 2041 in the world among all types of universities
- APHEA accreditation for the field of public health studies and a certificate of the US Department of Education for education in English, conducted since 1996 in the field of medicine in Katowice
- high level of classes is guaranteed by over 1,300 academic teachers
- 5 independent public clinical hospitals in Zabrze and Katowice
- didactic and scientific base consists of over 260 departments, clinics and departments located mainly in the cities that are the headquarters of the Faculties, i.e. in Zabrze, Katowice, Sosnowiec and Bytom
- cooperates with over 80 foreign universities, including: Great Britain, Czech Republic, Italy, Sweden. Cooperation concerns, inter alia, exchange of students, exchange of information in the field of didactic programs, and exchange and training of teaching staff
- received the prestigious Logo HR Excellence in Research in 2017, awarded by the European Commission to institutions conducting research and development activities
- students can expand their interests as part of the activities of the Student Scientific Society, which associates over 150 research clubs
- modern sports base allows students to develop their sports passions in the following sections: volleyball, basketball, climbing, alpine skiing, snowboarding, athletics, aerobics, table tennis, tennis, squash, swimming, sailing, cycling, etc.
- the largest Education and Medical Simulation Center in the country since 2012, which enables the recreating of the working conditions of a real hospital Education and Medical Simulation Center
- Education and Medical Simulation Center in Katowice have six simulation rooms (an operating room, an intensive care room, two hospital emergency rooms, a pediatric room and a delivery room, and an area adapted to simulate pre-hospital events with an ambulance simulator)
