2009-10-17 12:18

Warsaw should attract more foreign students

3,775 foreign students are studying at Warsaw higher learning institutions. "This is the biggest number in Poland but still too few. It is in the interest of the city and Warsaw higher learning institutions to increase the number of foreign students," Warsaw vice-mayor Wlodzimierz Paszynski said.

Between 1990 and 2009 the number of foreign students at Polish higher learning institutions rose from 4,000 to 16,000, according to the findings of the report "Foreign students in Poland and Warsaw," which has been published by the Educational Foundation "Perspektywy."

Students from Europe constitute the biggest group - 10,700 persons, including 2,831 from Ukraine, 1,902 from Belarus, 1,169 from Norway and 830 from Sweden. As for Asian students, 612 came from Taiwan, 378 from Kazakhstan, 347 from India and 310 from China. 987 students came from the United States.

Warsaw is the biggest academic centre in Poland with over 302,000 students studying there in the academic year 2008/2009, including 3,775 foreigners (or 1.25 percent of the total number of students in Warsaw). Warsaw University has the biggest number of foreign students (782). As regards private higher learning institutions the Ryszard Lazarski School of Commerce and Law has the biggest number of foreign students (206).

Warsaw higher learning institutions attracted 553 Belarussians, 512 Ukrainians, 126 Russians, 117 Norwegians, 98 Swedes, 98 Vietnamese.

For the last two years the programme "Study in Warsaw" has promoted Poland's capital as an European academic centre. ID

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