University of Warsaw

Voivodeship: mazowieckie

City: Warszawa

The university was founded in 1816 under the name of the Royal University of Warsaw. It is the oldest and largest higher education institution in Poland, and at the same time the longest operating university in Warsaw. At the time of its establishment, it consisted of five faculties: Law, Medicine, Philosophy, Theology, and Science and Fine Arts. The first students began their studies two years later, and after several years of operation, their number was around 800. Currently, the university has 25 faculties. It cooperates with over 1,000 domestic and foreign partners, including over 350 entities from 76 countries that have signed direct cooperation agreements with the University. Almost 37,000 students study here, of which 61.1% are women and 7.3% are foreigners. Last year, the university produced over 7.9 thousand graduates. In the academic year 2024/2025, over 16.4 thousand students began their studies. male and female students, including 1,219 foreigners. The largest group of foreign students are people from Ukraine, Belarus, China, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Azerbaijan and India. The university employs over 3.5 thousand full-time academic teachers, almost half of whom are women. Among the outstanding figures who studied at this university are, among others, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Czesław Miłosz, Menachem Begin — former Prime Minister of Israel, Joseph Rotblat — physicist and radiobiologist, Leonid Hurwicz — economist and Olga Tokarczuk — writer.