It was founded as Uzhhorod State Institute of Information Sciences, Economics and Law (UzhDIIEP) in 1995.

The university trains its students in the following fields and specialties: There is a postgraduate department in ten specialties (day-time and correspondence learning) in the university: Material and technical base of the university includes 7 computer classrooms, laboratories of informational teaching technologies, a publishing center, centers of electronic communication, local computer and TV networks, a training laboratory for Criminal Law Science, a library and information center with a considerable fund of modern scientific and training literature of 200,000 items and the biggest in the region reading hall, linguaphone labs equipped with computer audio and video complexes, a codification center for Law Sciences.

To the services of the students and teaching staff there is a swimming-pool with a health and sport center, and a clinic.

The University publishes its own magazine, Naukovyi Visnyk ("Scientific Herald"), and a regional newspaper.

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