The Jan Kochanowski University (JKU) in Kielce is the only university of Świętokrzyskie region, and one of Poland’s twenty universities. It provides workplaces for 1,399 employees, including 909 university teachers, out of whom 285 hold academic titles of professors or degrees of doctors habilitated, and 457 hold doctoral degrees. The University has the rights to confer doctoral degrees in eleven disciplines, and degrees of doctor habilitated in two disciplines.
Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce (Polish: Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach) formerly the Świętokrzyska Academy (Akademia Świętokrzyska), The Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences (Uniwersytet Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczy Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach) is a public university in Kielce, Poland, dating its tradition to an educational institution (specializing in pedagogy) established in 1945.