Study at SGH
WHY SGH?
Welcome to the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) website! Here you will learn why come to Poland and study at our prestigious and student-friendly university.
- The leading business school in Eastern and Central Europe:
No 1 of all national rankings of universities of economics and business.
TOP 10 in overall ranking of all universities in Poland.
TOP 70 in 2011 Financial Times ranking of Masters in Management programmes.
5 PALMES in EDUNIVERSAL ranking of business schools (‘Universal business school with major international influence’).
Member of CEMS – the Global Alliance in Management Education
- Close links with business community that facilitate conducting research projects.
- Extensive network of over 200 partner universities from all around the world.
- Flexibility of creating own studies paths the enrolled students may enjoy.
- Low costs of living in Warsaw as compared to other large European cities.
Get the facts about us:
- Warsaw School of Economics was founded in 1906 by August Zieliński as Poland’s first university of economics.
- SGH enrols over 12000 students for full time and more students for other programmes and employs over 800 teaching and research staff every year.
- In the opinion of journalists of the Polish edition of Newsweek, among all Polish universities it is SGH that gives its graduates the greatest chance of finding good jobs.
- SGH students represent almost 60 countries.
- Since the beginning of the economic transition in 1989, 11 out of 21 finance ministers of Poland were SGH graduates.
- Professor Leszek Balcerowicz – an SGH graduate and lecturer, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, former President of the National Bank of Poland, is considered to be the main architect of the Polish economic transformation after 1989.
- Professor Danuta Hübner was the first Polish commissioner in the European Commission (for Regional Policy), previously the Minister for European Affairs of the Republic of Poland and the Head of the Office of the Committee for European Integration and the Secretary of the State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, is an SGH graduate and current lecturer.
Studies at the Warsaw School of Economics are the gateway to the European Union and other countries in Europe.
Here you can learn about Poland and Warsaw: practical-information
According to the Bologne system SGH offers three levels of studies:
- 3-year Bachelor’s studies (I degree) – six-semester full-time or extramural studies in Polish and English.
- 2-year Master’s studies (II degree) – for graduates with at least a bachelor’s degree, full-time or extramural, four-semester studies. Both in Polish and English.
- 3-year Doctoral studies – full-time or extramural studies in Polish and English and joint programme in French.
- Postgraduate studies – over 90 programmes in the Polish language, MBA programmes - Canadian Executive MBA (in English), Executive Studies in Finance and studies realised at the request of companies and institutions.
Studies in English available for full-time students:
- Bachelor in International Economics,
- Bachelor in Quantitative Methods in Economics and Information Systems,
- Bachelor in Management - specializations: Project Management, Entrepreneurship,
- Master in International Business - specializations: Business in Central and Eastern Europe, International Business Management,
- Master in Finance and Accounting- with opportunity of ACCA Qualification
- Canadian Executive MBA Studies (CEMBA), with the University of Quebec in Montreal,
- PhD Studies in Management and Economics
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