Information for first-year students – Graduate Studies

Welcome at SGH Warsaw School of Economics. To get some information about studies program, office hours and other requirements, please read carefully our website.

We’d like to inform you that within 3-4 days after submitting documents, information as follows: student number, login and password to SGH network will be sent to you by e-mail given in the online admission system (ISR).

Declarations for 1st semester

To start studying, you need to choose the right courses. 
Semester declaration is one of the most important administrative matters. 

At SGH, registration for classes takes place on designated dates and only via the IT system. 
 

Students register to classes based on the classes schedulethus making preferences course groups, in accordance with the list of mandatory courses for the first semester in their field of study.

Study Plan’s for 2023/24 

Schedule of declarations for students of the first semester of full-time and part-time studies in the academic year 2023/2024

Students register to courses based on a schedule of classes, thus making preferences for lecture and exercise groups, following the list of compulsory subjects for the first semester in each field of studies. 

Information about rankings

In the case of applying for a given class, the number of people interested in the class exceeding the set limit will be decided by the following:

  • ranking determined primarily based on the average obtained at first-cycle studies (applies to students continuing their education at SGH) or the result obtained during the qualifying exam for second-cycle studies (for students who took the exam),
  • random ordering if it is not possible to make a substantive comparison between students.

People who are not assigned to a preferred group due to exceeding the limit will be automatically assigned to groups where the limits have not been exceeded. This allocation can be changed in the next round of declarations – group exchange.
 

The first stage - declaring preferences.

11th of September 2023 (Monday), 10:00 a.m. 13th to of September 2023(Wednesday), 10:00 a.m.

Technical break
from 14 of September 2023 to 20 of September 2023 (Thursday-Wednesday)

Correction of the class schedule. Assignment to groups based on ranking lists and reported preferences.

Second stage - correction of declarations (groups exchange)
from 21st of September 2023 (Thursday), 10:00 a.m. to 25th of September 2023 (Monday), 10:00 a.m.

Students can adjust their timetable. During this round, it is possible register for the launched classes, dedicated to the first semester of a given field of study, it is possible as far as free places are available (the principle of “first come, first served”). There will be a group exchange available during this round.

NOTE:

Students should check that the subjects they have previously chosen had not been removed from the declaration during the rankings and possibly register to them them by signing up for another group.

Registration with teachers permission - a supplementary stage only for those students who, for important reasons, need to complete the declaration.
from 30th of September 2023 (Saturday), 10:00 a.m. to 9th of October 2023 (Monday), 10:00 a.m.

In justified cases (e.g., dissolution of the group), students may add themselves as free places and over the limit with the consent of the lecturer, expressed via USOSweb.

NOTE:

Entering a given course on the list over the limit will be valid only after the didactic accepts the application in USOSweb. In the absence of such acceptance, the application shall be cancelled.

Acceptance of applications
until 11th of October 2023 (Wednesday)

One-time erasing
from 12th of October 2023 (Thursday), 10:00 a.m. to 30th of October 2023 (Monday), 10:00 a.m.

Resignation from the selected subject following paragraph 23 p.12 of the Study Regulations.

When reporting an course, please note whether: it is a mandatory subject (removing mandatory courses is possible only if it is an alternative to the one already completed), after the course has been cancelled, if the student has enough ECTS (at least 30) to pass the semester.


Review of applications until 7th of November 2023 (Tuesday)


Important notes:

  • Please keep an eye on both the dates and opening times of the semester declaration system.
  • PLEASE MAKE PRUDENT DECISIONS. It is not possible to remove a student from courses, exchange declared courses, change the teacher or sign up for classes outside the USOS declaration system. 
  • It will not be possible to sign up for classes directly with the lecturer.
  • The courses to which the student  had registered in the semester declaration system become a binding individual semester study plan and are subject to obligatory implementation in this semester.
Student’s ID collection

Conditions for receiving student’s ID card or electronic student’s ID card will be given by the end of September 2023.

The student ID card issue fee in 2023/2024 is 22 PLN.

The above-mentioned amount shall be paid to your individual PLN account number visible in USOSweb with the note:
 
Title: student’s ID card + (student’s album number)
With a note: I semester of full-time, ADA / FAP / GLO/ IB* II degree studies
 
* choose the appropriate form of study, where:
ADA - Advanced Analytics – Big Data
FAP - Finance and Accounting Practical Profile with ACCA qualification
GLO- Global Business, Finance and Governance
IB - International Business

Obligatory e-learning trainings

The first semester students of second-degree studies at SGH are obligated to pass three e-learning workshops:

  • Occupational Health Safety Training (BHP);
  • Library Training;
  • Fundamentals of Intellectual Property Protection Training.

The e-workshops will be activated on 1st October 2023. To take the trainings, students should log into e-sgh platform and make themselves acquainted with all the training materials and pass the obligatory tests.

Legalization of stay

For legalising your stay, additional help and free legal advice please check the website of Polish Office for Foreigners.

Insurance

Insurance via the University is available only for Polish citizens and holders of Polish charter). If you have Polish citizenship you can be insured by SGH Warsaw School of Economics. 

In that case please contact with Educational Support (main building, room 37).

Non-Polish citizens are obliged to insure themselves on their own and present confirmation of insurance within one month from starting studying to the Graduate Studies Office.

Students of Global Business, Finance and Governance (GLO) and  Advanced Analytics – Big Data (ADA) can receive any additional information from Graduate Studies Office representative, Ms Monika Wąsowska.

Students of Finance and Accounting Practical Profile with ACCA qualification (FAP) and International Business (IB) can receive any additional information from Graduate Studies Office representative, Ms Monika Rosińska.

Vice Dean for Graduate Studies in English is Piotr Maszczyk, Ph.D.