Originally founded as the Institute for Liberal Education of Charles University in 1994, the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University gained full academic autonomy in 2000. It was established to provide study programmes at the Bachelor‘s, Master’s, and Ph.D. levels previously not available at the University. Its main research and academic focus is within Humanities and Social and Cultural Anthropology. Located in a new, campus-like facility of Charles University in the Prague district of Liben, the school has 240 faculty members and approximately 2,500 students.