WARSAW UNIVERSITYWARSAW UNIVERSITY

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Founded in 1816, Warsaw University is the largest university in Poland, with over 2,700 faculty members among its 5,400 employees and over 60,000 students in 2003.

Number of employees: 5,475of which: academic staff: 2,727

others: 2,748

WARSAW UNIVERSITY - FACTS AND FIGURESWARSAW UNIVERSITY - FACTS AND FIGURES

Number of professors: 826of which: full professors: 425

University professors: 402

Number of students: 60,844of which: full-time: 29,992

part-time: 26.040 post-graduate: 4,812 doctoral: 2,107

DEGREES:

„licencjat”

( BA, BSc; 3 year studies)

„magister”

(MA, MSc; 2 or 5 year studies)

MBA

„doktor” (PhD; 3or 4 year studies)

„habilitacja” - the post-doctoral degree

ACADEMIC STAFF AT WARSAW UNIVERSITY

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WARSAW UNIVERSITY LIBRARYWARSAW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Warsaw University Library contains: - about 2.5 million of volumes (1 million with the free access)

- special collections and multimedia laboratories

STUDENTS AT WARSAW UNIVERSITY

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Part-time study programmes2.0

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Full-time study programmes5.0

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STUDENTS AT WARSAW UNIVERSITY

INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION OF WARSAW UNIVERSITY

(without Socrates-Erasmus co-operation)

Number of agreements:

* 153 agreements

* 49 countries

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Africa

INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF SOCRATES-

ERASMUS PROGRAMME

WARSAW UNI VERSI TY SOCRATES-ERASMUS programme

activities in the academic year 2003/ 2004

193 partner universities in 14 EU countries

687 outgoing students 183 incoming students

FOREIGN STUDENTS AT WARSAW UNIVERSITY

(without Socrates-Erasmus co-operation)

Africa ; 29

USA & Canada; 13

Asia; 198 Latin America; 3

Europe; 560

CHALLENGES

• More courses in foreign languages• International programme in the humanities

(taught in English)• ECTS all over (2005 - ECTS Label)• Diploma Supplement

(2005 - DS Label)• Teaching modularisation

APART FROM STANDARD TEACHING WE ORGANIZE

E-Learning - Education Centre for Open Multimedia

summer schools (5 in 2004)

Polish language & culture courses (Tandem; Survival Polish - an internet course

WARSAW UNIVERSITYincome in 2003 – 137,027.955 Million €

• Funding from the state insufficient and decreasing in real terms

• - increasing fee-based tuition

• - search for “third flow” (non budgetary funds)

• - participation in EU

programmes 45,10%

13,60%

21,70% 1,90%17,70%

State Funding by Ministry of National Education

State Funding from the State Committee for Research

Tuition fees

European Union

Other

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