Since then, It has expanded to be the largest university in Eastern Poland, with over 12 Faculties in Lublin, and a satellite campus in Puławy.

MCSU also holds 330 Erasmus+ agreements, and a One-Year Preparatory Course for foreigners who wish to study Polish.

[4][8] The University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska was founded on October 23, 1944, three months after the Liberation of Lublin by the Red Army.

On 3rd of April, 1946, The University was gifted a 17,3-hectare (173,000 m2) land grant, on then outskirts of the city, for the future Campus .

1946 also marks the year when the Botanical Gardens, and the Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska Journal, were created.

One year later, the faculty of Medicine was excluded from the institution, and became the Medical University of Lublin.

During the 1950s, more faculties were created, such as: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Earth Sciences, Languages, and Economics.

It has about 6,500 species of flora growing here, gathered in several area, among others, a rosarium, a branch of water plants and an alpine garden.