Warsaw University

Warsaw remains Poland’s largest academic hub, followed by Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań and Lublin, shows a study run by the Central Statistical Office.

The top five seats of learning generally account for over 43 percent of all the country’s students, over a half of them attending full-time studies.

The Central Statistical Office has stressed that the number of schools of higher education has been on the rise since 2000. At the same time, however, the total number of students has dropped in the last two years, while the alumni figures have continued to increase.

This trend may be attributed to demographic shifts contributing to lower intake of students nationwide, coinciding with the last representatives of the demographic peak graduating at this time.

Up to 70 percent of the students frequented 131 state higher education establishments, with the remaining 30 percent studying at a total 330 private institutions in Poland.

The study has also revealed that the interest in humanities, social studies and IT has been gradually diminishing to the advantage of fields such as health and social welfare, alongside architecture and construction. Meanwhile, economy and administration-oriented faculties remain the most popular course. (ab)