University of Social Sciences and Humanities

SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
SWPS Uniwersytet Humanistycznospołeczny
Type Private
Established 1996
Rector Associate Professor Roman Cieślak, Ph.D.
Students 16,500[1]
Address Chodakowska Street 19/31, Warsaw 03-815, Poland., Warsaw, Poland
Campus Urban
Affiliations EUA, Socrates-Erasmus
Website swps.pl

SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS University) (Polish: SWPS Uniwersytet Humanistycznospołeczny) is a private university in Poland affiliated with the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology and the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences. SWPS University was founded in 1996 by Andrzej Eliasz, Zbigniew Pietrasiński and Janusz Reykowski, former professors of the Institute of Psychology at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

SWPS University is one of the largest private universities in Poland. Over 16,000 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students study at five campuses of SWPS University, located in major Polish cities, including Warsaw, Wrocław, Sopot, Poznań, and Katowice).

SWPS University offers several undergraduate and graduate programs in English and over 30 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral study programs, with over 70 specializations, in Polish.[2] The University has been ranked by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as the leading higher education institution offering Social Sciences programs, in Poland.

Seven faculties of SWPS University have the authority to grant doctoral degrees in the following disciplines: cultural studies, literature studies, law, and sociology (in Warsaw) as well as psychology (in Warsaw, Wrocław and Sopot). The university also has the authority to grant post-doctoral degrees (habilitacja) in cultural studies (Warsaw) and psychology (Warsaw and Wrocław).

SWPS University was ranked by Perspektywy, a Polish influential monthly magazine devoted to educational affairs as the second-best private college with master degree programs in Poland in 2010 (out of 96 institutions).[3]

SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities has been formerly known, for statutory reasons, as Warsaw School of Psychology, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw School of Advanced Social Psychology, and Warsaw School of Social Psychology.

Faculties

Building of the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
  1. Warsaw Faculty of Psychology
  2. Warsaw Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  3. Warsaw Faculty of Law
  4. Sopot Faculty of Psychology
  5. Katowice Faculty of Psychology
  6. Wrocław Faculty of Psychology
  7. Wrocław Faculty of Law and Communication
  8. Poznań Faculty of Social Sciences and Design

References

  1. ↑ History of SWPS University
  2. ↑ http://www.studia.swps.pl/english-site/
  3. ↑ http://www.perspektywy.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2687&Itemid=734

Coordinates: 52°14′54″N 21°04′01″E / 52.24833°N 21.06694°E / 52.24833; 21.06694

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