University of Warsaw

Voivodeship: mazowieckie

City: Warszawa

Description:

The university was founded in 1816 under the name of the Royal University of Warsaw. It is the largest and one of the oldest universities in Poland, and at the same time the longest-established university in the capital. At the time of its establishment, the university consisted of five faculties: Law, Medicine, Philosophy, Theology and Sciences and Fine Arts. The first students began studying two years later. After several years of operation, there were around 800.

Today, there are 25 faculties at the university. More than 1,000 national and international partners cooperate with the University. Among them are more than 350 foreign entities from 76 countries that have signed a direct cooperation agreement with the UW.

The university currently has more than 36,000 students, 61.6 per cent of whom are women and 7 per cent are foreigners.   

More than 8,600 graduates left the university building last year. In the 2023/2024 academic year, more than 17,000 male and female students, including 1189 foreigners, started their studies.

The largest group among foreign students are from: Ukraine, Belarus, China, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Azerbaijan or India.

The university employs 3,500 full-time academic staff, almost 50 per cent of whom are women.

Prominent figures who have studied within the university's walls include Henryk Sienkiewicz, Czesław Miłosz, Menachem Begin - former Prime Minister of Israel, Joseph Rotblat - physicist and radiobiologist, Leonid Hurwicz - economist or Olga Tokarczuk - writer.