Dean of Faculty of medicine UPJŠ in Košice, professor Daniel Pella, officially started winter semester of academic year 2016/2017. During his speech, he mentioned new 500 students in both Slovak and English program, that have enrolled at Faculty for 2016/2017 intake. 
He said: ,,There are more than 2600 students currently enrolled at Faculty of Medicine UPJŠ in Košice. Thanks to big number of international students from all over the world, the prestige of our educational institution increase continually. We should not forget, that our faculty has more than 70 years of tradition and great rating. We defended our rating 3.95 from maximum 4.00 in the last complex accreditation thanks to the good-quality theoretical and practical teaching. Employability of our students is on very level. Faculty is also involved in plenty of scientific and research activities.”
He also thanked to teachers of the Faculty, who are responsible for teaching in English and help students from all over the world to obtain internationally recognised degree.