The main campus of the university is located in Poznań, but the university offers its courses also in seven other locations (colleges of higher education) situated within a distance of 30–100 km from Poznań (Bydgoszcz, Kalisz, Konin, Piła, Leszno, Zielona Góra, Szamotuły).

Changes in syllabuses make it possible to aim at European educational standards in all major fields of training and specialisation.

The main subjects of research range from various aspects of Poland's economic transformation to the preparation of Polish enterprises for competition within the European Union and the globalization trends in the world economy.

Product and organisational innovations are those subjects of research which the Poznań University of Economics intends to develop further in close co-operation with Polish enterprises.

PUE also focuses on international market research (primarily the EU, but also Central and East European countries) in order to facilitate the expansion of Poland's export trade.

[6][7][8][9] Since 2000, the university has become second in rankings published by such Polish magazines as Polityka, Rzeczpospolita, Perspektywy, Magazyn Businessman and Newsweek Polska.