Matej Bel University
 Matej Bel University (commonly referred as Matej Bel or UMB) (Slovak: Univerzita Mateja Bela) is a public research university in the central Slovak town of Banská Bystrica. The University was established on July 1 1992 and inaugurated on October 23 1992. It bears the name of Matthias Bel an outstanding Lutheran scholar of the 18th century.