Wrocław becomes a university city with several higher schools, created mainly as the result of the secession of individual faculties from the University. The Medical Academy, later known as the Medical University, becomes independent as the first of them in 1949. The present-day Academy of Physical Education also had its roots there. The Higher Agricultural School, created on the foundation of two University faculties and later transformed into the University of Environmental and Life Sciences, begins its activity in 1950. In 1951/1952 academic year, when the Wrocław University of Technology becomes an autonomous higher school, the University and the University of Technology part their ways.
