UNIC Athens: Everything you need to know about the new university at The Ellinikon
The University of Nicosia is expanding to Athens with UNIC Athens at The Ellinikon, set to launch in 2025 with nine undergraduate programs and a vision for a world-class academic hub.
- 04/09/2025, 13:39
From October 2025, the first non-state universities in Greece are expected to begin operating, including UNIC Athens with facilities at The Ellinikon. The University of Nicosia has received approval from the Greek Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports for the establishment and operation of UNIC Athens and, as it announced, it is preparing to welcome its first students in the winter semester of 2025.
“UNIC Athens will welcome its first students in the fall of 2025 at a specially designed university campus in the area of The Ellinikon. UNIC Athens will be the only university campus operating within the framework of The Ellinikon smart city, the largest urban redevelopment project in Europe”, the announcement states.
The UNIC Athens campus will be developed in three phases, starting in fall 2025 with facilities of 12,500 sq.m. next to The Ellinikon, followed by the construction of new facilities within the project itself. According to the official website of the University of Nicosia, expansion works for the UNIC Athens campus inside The Ellinikon (phases 2–3) will begin in 2026, with the new facilities welcoming their first students in the academic year 2028–29. After the completion of the new Academic and Research Center, student residences and additional research centers will be finalized by 2030.
The academic programs of UNIC Athens
The University of Nicosia has submitted nine undergraduate programs to the Hellenic Authority for Higher Education (HAHE), aiming to launch them in October 2025:
- Medicine
- Law
- Pharmacy
- Computer science
- Data science
- Psychology
- Business administration
- Accounting
- Marketing management
In addition, the goal is to have two postgraduate programs accredited, the MBA and the PhD in Medical Sciences, with the aim of starting them in 2026.
The Medical School of the University of Nicosia collaborates with the Hellenic Healthcare Group (HHG), which will serve as the exclusive network of university hospitals for UNIC Athens. The hospitals Hygeia, Metropolitan General, Metropolitan Hospital, and Mitera will function as the main bases for clinical teaching and research.
The University of Nicosia
The university in Nicosia began operating in October 2007 following a decision by the Council of Ministers of Cyprus. Branches of the University of Nicosia also exist in Limassol and Larnaca. The institution has more than 12,000 students from 100 different countries, studying in its undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs.
It offers more than 100 programs at bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral level, both on its Cyprus campus and online.