The University of Thessaly (UTH; Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας) is a public university in Thessaly, Greece, founded in 1984. The university includes the main campus in the city of Volos and regional campuses located in Karditsa, Larissa, Trikala, and the city of Lamia. The university’s central administrative and academic building, located on the seaport seafront, it is often referred to as the main campus, but actually the university does not have a single main site, as it has multi sites with buildings being geographically distributed within the wider region of Volos across the city districts. Enrollment for Fall 2014 consisted of 14,000 undergraduates students, 2,150 master’s degree-level students, 1,400 doctoral students, and 710 faculty members.

Emblem

The emblem of the University of Thessaly is Chiron, who used to live in Pelion Mountain and was famous for his special knowledge about medicine, music, archery, hunting, gymnastics and the art of prophecy.The administration building of University of Thessaly in VolosThe Department of Economics is housed in the old industry building of MatsagosThe Department of Architecture in the campus of Engineering school in Volos

History

Most university departments were founded by the end of 2001. In 2013, the University of Central Greece (UCG) main campus (2003–2013) in the City of Lamia and its Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, merged with University of Thessaly. This was followed in 2019 by the Technological Educational Institute of Central Greece (TEICG) main campus (2013–2019) in the City of Lamia and its Departments of Nursing, Physiotherapy, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, they also are merging with University of Thessaly. Since then these are the existing two sites of the University of Thessaly in the City of Lamia.

University of thessaly acceptance rate

LanguagesGreekAcceptance rate91%*

* The University of Thessaly is among the institutions that don’t provide data on acceptance rates. This might happen because a university has programs where an applicant only needs to meet admission requirements to enroll and doesn’t necessarily competes with others.

We estimate the above acceptance rate based on admission statistics of closely-ranked nearby universities with similar research profiles that do publish such data.

University of thessaly ranking

University of Thessaly RankingsUniversity of Thessaly is ranked #1003 in Best Global Universities. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence.

University of thessaly qs ranking

#1328 of 14,160	In the World
#465 of 2,789	In Europe
#9 of 39	In Greece
#141 of 1,189	For Agricultural Engineering

Institution Name	University of Thessaly
Native Name	Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας
Location	Greece
World Rank	919
National Rank	7
Quality of Education Rank	378+
Alumni Employment Rank	594+
Quality of Faculty Rank	235+
Publications Rank	853
Influence Rank	987
Citations Rank	818+
Broad Impact Rank	878
Patents Rank	912+
Overall Score	44.30
URL	www.uth.gr