Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH (reviews)

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.) is the largest and sixth oldest university in Greece. The main campus is based in the beautiful city of Thessaloniki, and provides an excellent learning environment. The campus spreads across 33.4 hectares. It is home to state-of-the-art facilities and modern technologies, but some educational and administrative facilities are located off campus for practical reasons. Some of those are even located in other cities. The university has 10 faculties and consists of 40 schools and one single-school faculty. Nowadays, approximately 74,000 students are enrolled in programmes at Aristotle University, 65,000 in undergraduate programmes, the rest in postgraduate programmes, including degree programmes at doctoral level. The faculty is made up of 2,024 faculty members, including 11 teaching assistants, 58 researchers, 248 members of the Special Laboratory Teaching Personnel (S.L.T.P), 15 foreign language teachers, as well as 4 foreign instructors. The administrative staff consists of 400 permanent employees and 528 employees (indefinite contractors). The school is named after the philosopher Aristotle, who was born not far from Thessaloniki. The majority of courses are taught in Greek, but there are programmes in foreign languages and courses for international students, those are taught in English, French, German, and Italian. The renowned university is constantly ranked among the most prestigious universities in Greece. It was ranked among the best universities in the world by Times Higher Education World University Ranking, and other Academic Rankings. In the Webometrics ranking, it ranked first in the category of web popularity in Greece. The university places special value on integration and extracurricular activities. It has a university student club that is based in a private building on the eastern side of the campus. The student club is home to a restaurant, a reading room, a medical service, a snack bar, and even hairdresser’s studio.