University of Social Sciences and Humanities

SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Uniwersytet SWPS
Type Private
Established 1996
Rector Prof. Andrzej Eliasz
Students 13,500[1]
Address Chodakowska Street 19/31, Warsaw 03-815, Poland., Warsaw, Poland
Campus Urban
Affiliations EUA, Socrates-Erasmus
Website www.swps.pl

The SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities (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. It consists of eight faculties in five cities (Warsaw, Wrocław, Sopot, Poznań and Katowice). It has about 13,500 full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students.[2] 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]

The SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities offers 20 study programmes, including two programmes in English, leading to Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees in major academic disciplines in social sciences and humanities. [4] Before the University was founded, SWPS University associated with Polish Academy of Sciences had been several times renamed for identity reasons: Warsaw School of Psychology, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw School of Advanced Social Psychology, Warsaw School of Social Psychology.

Faculties

Building of the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
  1. Faculty of Psychology
  2. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
  3. Faculty of Law
  4. Campus in Sopot
  5. Campus in Wrocław
  6. Campus in Katowice
  7. Campus in Poznań

External links

References

  1. ↑ Historia uczelni
  2. ↑ http://www.swps.pl/english/
  3. ↑ http://www.perspektywy.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2687&Itemid=734
  4. ↑ http://www.swps.pl/english/index.php/about-swps-the-history.html

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


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