Universities are the oldest non-technical schools. Their educational offer is usually quite complex and each department has got many fields of study with varied specializations that educate skilled graduates.
In Poland the term “university” may be used in the name of the school, which has got the right to confer the doctor degree in at least ten disciplines, including at least two of given below fields of study:
- humanities, law, economics or theology
- mathematical, physical, earth sciences or technical
- biological, medical, chemical, pharmaceutical, agricultural or veterinary use
Name the technical university can be used in case of school that the agencies have the authority to confer doctoral degrees in at least ten disciplines, including at least six powers in the field of technical sciences.
In turn, the term "university" supplemented by an adjective in order to determine the profile of the university can be used in the name of the university, that business units have at least six powers to confer doctoral degrees, including at least four of the sciences covered by the profile of the university.
In Poland there are 44 universities:
- 42 state universities (18 traditional universities and 24 the so-called „adjectival universities” (with adjective in its name)
- 2 private universities (Catholic)
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Collegium Polonicum Slubice
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz
Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Poznań University of Economics
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
University of Zielona Gora
Medical University of Łodz
University of Life Sciences in Lublin
The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow
Cracow University of Economics
Medical University of Bialystok
ul. Kilińskiego 1, 15-089 Białystok
(+85) 85 748 54 73 (Rekrutacja UMB), 748 54 16
brip@umb.edu.pl
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Agricultural University of Cracow
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
Physics Faculty, University of Bialystok
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Poznan University of Medical Sciences
Poznan University of Life Sciences
ul. Wojska Polskiego 28, 60-637 Poznań
(+61) 848 72 12, 848 70 10, 848 70 09, 846 67 16
dsiss@up.poznan.pl
Pedagogical University of Cracow
West Pomeranian University of Technology
The University of Social Psychology (SWPS)
Gdynia Maritime University
Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin
University of Szczecin
al. Papieża Jana Pawła II 22a, 70-453 Szczecin
(+91) 444 11 60, 444 10 31, 444 10 29, 444 12 21
rekrutacja@usz.edu.pl
Academy of Jan Dlugosz in Czestochowa
Medical University of Lublin
Nicolaus Copernicus University
Frideric Chopin University of Music
Kazimierz Pułaski Technological and Humanistic University of Radom
Medical University of Warsaw
Wroclaw University of Economics
Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities
University of Economics in Katowice
Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego Filia w Piotrkowie Trybunalskim
European University Viadrina
Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
University of Science and Technology in Bygdoszcz
Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences
The University of Social Psychology (SWPS)
Medical University of Gdańsk
The University of Social Psychology (SWPS)
The State Higher Vocational School in Sandomierz
The University of Social Psychology (SWPS)
University of Fine Arts in Poznań