HISTORY

The University of Ioannina was the first Institution of higher learning outside the large city centres of Athens and Thessaloniki founded during the rapid expansion of tertiary education in Greece during the 1960's. It started in 1964 with a single Department of Classical Studies as an annex of the University of Thessaloniki and evolved into an independent multi-disciplinary public University in 1970. Several Departments and a Medical School were added during the ensuing years to form today's University with a faculty of over 400 and a student body of 9,000.