1816

The University of Warsaw was founded in 1816 >>

 

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University graduates have won 6 Nobel Prize awards:

• Henryk Sienkiewicz, writer, winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded “because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer”,
• Czesław Miłosz, poet, prose writer, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature,
• Menachem Begin, prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978,
• Joseph Rotblat, physicist and radiobiologist, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995,
• Leonid Hurwicz, economist,  winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2007, awarded “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”,
• Olga Tokarczuk, prose writer, poet and psychologist, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.

49,794

The University community consists of:

• 8,090 employees,
• 36,300 students,
• 1,742 doctoral candidates,
• 3,662 international students and doctoral candidates.

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The UW encompasses 25 faculties and over 30 research units.

 

over 1,600

The scholars participate in over 1,600 projects financed by national or international research programmes, such as EU framework programmes, European Science Foundation, European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research, European Molecular Biology Organization.

 

over 1,000

The UW cooperates with over 1,000 international and domestic partners.

 

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The UW offers 42 English-language programmes >>