Warsaw School of Economics

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Warsaw School of Economics
Szkoła Główna Handlowa
Latin: Schola Princeps Scientiarum Œconomicarum et Commercii
Established	October 13, 1906
Rector	Professor Adam Budnikowski
Students	16 500 (November 2004)
Location	Warsaw, Poland
Address	Aleja Niepodległości 162, 02-554
Telephone	+(48 22) 564 60 00
Affiliations	CEMS, PIM
Website	www.sgh.waw.pl

Warsaw School of Economics (WSE) is the oldest economic university in Poland. It is also considered to be the most prestigious. It was founded in 1906 as a private school under the name of August Zieliński Private Trade Courses for Men. On July 30th 1919 it became a separate legal entity and was granted the status of an institution of higher education, thus becoming a separate scientific institution. It was renamed Szkoła Główna Handlowa (SGH) in 1933. Following World War II and establishment of the communist regime in Poland SGH was nationalized and its name changed to Szkoła Główna Planowania i Statystyki [Main School of Planning and Statistics]. The school regained it's pre-war name after the fall of communism in 1991, though it remains to be a public institution.

Today Warsaw School of Economics offers course leading to Bachelor's or Master's degrees to both full-time and extra-mural students. It also offers doctoral and Postgraduate Programmes.

Warsaw School of Economics is a member of CEMS.

Located in the northern edge of Mokotów district of (Warsaw).

Communicated with bus and tram stations and primarily with a metro station Pole Mokotowskie.

1 Organizational structure
2 Famous people of Warsaw School of Economics
- 2.1 Alumni
- 2.2 Professors
3 External links

[edit] Organizational structure

Warsaw School of Economics has abandoned a traditional departmental structure segregating students on basis of their major.

Professors as well as research and teaching programmes are grouped in five Collegia and a number of extra-collegial units like foreign languages centre or the "pedagogical studium" gathering school's psychologists and teaching experts and offering i.e. trainings in teaching skills.

Collegia:

The Collegium of Economic Analysis (Kolegium Analiz Ekonomicznych)
The Collegium of Socio-Economic Policy (Kolegium Społeczno-Ekonomiczne)
The Collegium of World Economy (Kolegium Gospodarki Światowej)
The Collegium of Business Administration (Kolegium Nauk o Przedsiębiorstwie)
The Collegium of Management and Finance (Kolegium Zarządzania i Finansów)

[edit] Famous people of Warsaw School of Economics

[edit] Alumni

The majority of Ministers of Finance in the governments of the III Republic of Poland were SGH alumni, including all from 1988 to 1997

Leszek Balcerowicz - Chairman of the National Bank of Poland, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Poland, author of the free market reforms.
Marek Borowski - former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Poland, former Speaker of Sejm.
Stanisław Kluza - former Minister of Finance of Poland (July 14 to September 22, 2006), chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission [1]
Grzegorz Kołodko - former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Poland.
Józef Oleksy - former Polish Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration.
Dariusz Rosati - former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, member of the European Parliament.
Marek Rocki - former Rector (two terms, 1999-2005), since 2005 member of the Senate of Poland
Edward Szczepanik - last Prime Minister [2] of the Polish government in exile.
Stefan Starzyński - president of Warsaw from 1934 to the fall of the city in World War II in 1939, murdered by Gestapo in 1943.