2023/2024 Academic Year Dates
Online Recruitment
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UW Doctoral Schools’ website
Welcome Point
central information service for international students
(+48) 22 55 24 080, tel. (+48) 22 55 24 103
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Doctoral Schools
On 1st October 2018, the new Law on Higher Education and Science entered into force. According to the Act, Polish universities were required to establish doctoral schools.
On 17th April 2019, the University of Warsaw established 4 doctoral schools.
In 2023, the PhD education received 1 742 students, including 229 students of the 3rd cycle programmes and 1513 doctoral candidates in four doctoral schools.
Doctoral School of Humanities
disciplines: archaeology, ethnology and cultural anthropology, history, linguistics, literary studies, cultural and religious studies, arts
Doctoral School of Social Sciences
disciplines: economics and finance, socio-economic geography and land management, safety studies, social communication and media studies, political and administration science, international relations, management and quality studies, legal studies, sociology, pedagogy, psychology
Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences
disciplines: astronomy, mathematical sciences, computer science, biological sciences, chemical sciences, physical sciences, earth and environmental sciences
The Warsaw Doctoral School of Mathematics and Computer Science is a part of the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences and is jointly run by the University of Warsaw and the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Interdisciplinary Doctoral School
At the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, doctoral students prepare theses based on achievements in at least two freely elected fields of academic research, with the leading field indicated, or single-field projects without any leading discipline specified.