1. WARSAW UNIVERSITY We Are Closer Than You Think

2. INTERNET: www.uw.edu.pl 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.

3. 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:26.040 post-graduate: 4,812 doctoral: 2,107

4. 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

5. ACADEMIC STAFF AT WARSAW UNIVERSITY

6. WARSAW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Warsaw University Library contains: - about 2.5 million of volumes (1 million with the free access) - special collections and multimedia laboratories

7. STUDENTS AT WARSAW UNIVERSITY

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

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

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

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

13. 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

14. 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

15. WARSAW UNIVERSITY income 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

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