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INTERNET: 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: 5,475 of which: academic staff: 2,727 others:2,748 WARSAW UNIVERSITY - FACTS AND FIGURES Number of professors: 826 of which: full professors: 425 University professors: 402 Number of students:60,844 of which: full-time:29,992 part-time: 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

WARSAW 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

Part-time study programmes 2.0 candidates per place Full-time study programmes 5.0 candidates per place STUDENTS AT WARSAW UNIVERSITY

INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION OF WARSAW UNIVERSITY (without Socrates-Erasmus co-operation) Number of agreements: * 153 agreements * 49 countries

INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF SOCRATES- ERASMUS PROGRAMME

FOREIGN STUDENTS AT WARSAW UNIVERSITY (without Socrates-Erasmus co-operation)

CHALLENGES More courses in foreign languages International programme in the humanities (taught in English) ECTS all over ( ECTS Label) Diploma Supplement ( 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 UNIVERSITY income in 2003 – 137, 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

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