Universities in European countries

Poland has one of the largest higher education systems in the EU. According to RAD-on, the official database run by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, there are currently 344 higher education institutions:

• 136 public institutions – 104 academic ones (including universities and universities of technology) and 32 vocational ones,
• 191 non-public (private) institutions,
• 17 church institutions.

Most public institutions are supervised by the Minister of Science (95). The others come under other ministries: culture – arts academies (19), health – medical universities (10), national defence (6), the interior (3), infrastructure – maritime universities (2) and justice (1).

You can check any institution and programme in RAD-on – the official database that shows whether an institution is operating and what it is authorised to teach. Programmes for international students are easiest to browse in the Study Finder run by NAWA, the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange.

Universities in Poland – profiles