Demographic crisis hits Polish universities. Will Poland lose 75% of universities by the year 2020? Can foreign students save the situation?
 
Report by Joanna Najfeld
 
According to the OECD, within 10 years from now, the number of university students in Poland will decrease by 40%. This may well result in the bankruptcy of 3/4 of Polish universities. All that because of the serious demographic crisis that Poland is in, which begins to seriously impact the social structure of society, which in turn hurts economy and among many other areas, education.
 
Many universities seek their rescue in extending offers to foreign students, who are still rare in Polish higher education. Polish medical universities are especially popular on the international education market, as they offer high quality training at reasonable prices.

There is an estimated 2.5 million students worldwide enrolled at universities outside their home countries. They spend an estimated several billion USD every year.