1. Warsaw School of
Social Sciences and
Humanities / SWPS
The Best Non-Public Academic Institutionin
Polandin the field of SocialSciences*
* According to the 2010 Ranking of Perspektywy and Rzeczpospolita

2. About SWPS
• established in 1996 in Warsaw
• one of the largest non-public university-level institution in
Poland
• offers a variety of study programmes at the undergraduate,
graduate and post-graduate level in major academic
disciplines in social sciences and humanities
• committed to the highest academic standards as well as to
transfer of practical knowledge and skills
• committed to international academic cooperation

3. SWPS in numbers
• around 13.500 students
• 5 academic centres: Warsaw (main
campus), Sopot, Wrocław, Poznań and
Katowice
• 8 Faculties
• 20 study programmes (all offered in
conformity with principles set up by
the Bologna Process)
• 2 study programmes offered in English
• over 60 partner institutions in Europe
and Asia

4. SWPS Faculty
• more than 900 including
146 Professors and 152
Doctors of Philosophy
• internationally renowned
scholars, journalists, artists
and practitioners

5. SWPS Offers
• BA Study programmes / First level studies (bachelor title)
• MA Study programmes / Second level studies (master title)
• Uniform master-level courses (master title)
• PhD Studies (doctor)
• Postgraduate Studies (Center for Applied Professional
Education)
• International Exchange Programmes
• University for Children
• University of the Third Age
• Language Courses (Language Center)
• E-Learning Courses (E-Learning Center)
• Professional School of Psychotherapy
• Career Center

6. SWPS Prestige
• one of the most prominent Polish academic
institutions for studies and research in psychology,
sociology and cultural studies
• high quality of study programmes and research
performance confirmed by the State Accreditation
Commision (PKA)
• SWPS awards doctoral degrees in psychology,
cultural studies and sociology as well as post-
doctoral „habilitation” title to doctors of psychology
and cultural studies

7. Academic values and partnership
• member of the Conference of Rectors of the Polish
Academic Schools (KRASP) which is an association of
the leading Polish universities and other higher
education institutions
• member of a number of international organizations,
among them EUA - European University Association
and Observatory of the Magna Charta

8. Science in practice
• SWPS has been one of the first non-public
higher institutions in Poland to receive
regularly a substantive, competitively
allocated public grants for its own research
projects
• each year SWPS scientists and researchers are
able to obtain various national and
international scientific awards and research
grants

9. Innovative research projects
Examples of some research projects undertaken at SWPS:
• Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the
European Union. Seventh Framework Programme, FP7 - PIREDEU
• Growing up at Greenpoint: Electronic media, identity transformation and
new horizons of expectations in the community of immigrants
• EU Kids Online: Using internet by kids: threads and opportunieties
• Education challenges in the Internet era
• Intercultural group as a buffer in the process of adaptation: Research on
the acculturation of foreign students in the EU member states
• Research on the contemporary Islam
At the moment 35 of our own research projects are being implemented
Since 2000 when we obtained the first grant fourty nine different research
projects have been completed

10. SWPS Recognition
„SWPS in Warsaw is a first-rate university-level institution in
social sciences [in Poland]. In the field of psychology it is
rightfully recognized as an exemplary high-aiming higher
education institution. Its formal and informal structures are
committed to the best standards of academic culture. SWPS is
highly appreciated by students and researchers as a standard-
setting study and learning centre. SWPS scientific and
research resources as well as its organisation and study
programmes are meeting adopted goals responding to
challenges of modern higher education.”
Source: Concluding information
Report of State Accreditation Commission (PKA), April 2010

11. Faculty of Psychology in Warsaw
[areas of study programmes and research]
• intercultural psychology
• social psychology
• clinical psychology
• clinical child psychology
• social psychology of the internet and communication
• neurocognitive science
• business psychology
• psychology for MA graduates
• psychology in English

12. Faculty of Social Sciences and
Humanities in Warsaw
[areas of study programmes and research]
• journalism and social communication
• philosophy
• cultural studies
• political science
• sociology
• international relations

13. Faculty of Philology in Warsaw
[areas of study programmes and research]
• English studies
• Oriental studies
• Polish studies
• Scandinavian studies
• Spanish studies
• Italian studies

14. Faculty of Law in Warsaw
[areas of study programmes and research]
• civil law
• criminal law
• international law
• medical and pharmacy law
• intelectual property law
• domestic security

15. Unique fields of studies
• gender studies
• cinema studies
• cities, metropolies, art
• intercultural psychology – the only study
programme in Poland!
• social and political marketing
• law for minorities
• family mediation
• security of the peace-keeping and peace-building
missions
• diplomacy
• corporate identity

16. Turning Theory into
Practice
• continually extended academic
offer
• modern interdisciplinary study
fields and programmes
• transfer of most up to date
practical knowledge and skills

17. Research laboratories and scientific centers
• Center for Middle East
• Center for East Asian Civilisations
• Center for Comparative Research
on Literature and Art
• Center for Polish Literature and
Language
• Center for Research on Popular
Culture
• Center for Studies on Democracy
• Center for Psychological
Measurement Techniques
• Interdisciplinary Center for Applied
Cognitive Studies
• Laboratory for Experimental Research
• Laboratory of Psychophisiological Research
• The International Center for Complexity and
Conflict

18. Institute for Social Psychology of Internet
and Communication (SPIK)
• interdisciplinary endeavor bridging psychology with
computing and art
• response to the needs of contemporary science and business
• educates psychologists who understand and clarify the
mechanisms underlying the modern information society
• graduates perfectly fit into all the environments where the
technology meets social communication and social change

19. International Center for Complexity and
Conflict - ICCC
• sister center of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict
Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia University
• dedicated to applications of complexity science to the study of conflict
• integrates theoretical and empirical work using laboratory studies,
computer simulations and network analyses as research approaches
• develops knowledge and practice to promote education, using new tools
based on computer visualizations and simulations for its pedagogy
• closest collaborators:
Peter Coleman , Director of the sister Center at Columbia University
Robin Vallacher, Florida University
Andrea Bartoli, George Mason University, Washington

20. Education without
boarders
• participation in the Erasmus
Programme and Atlantis Programme
• 60 bilateral international agreements
with leading foreign universities,
science organizations and research
institutions
• Chinese Service Centre for Scholary
Exchange of the Ministry of Education
has recognized SWPS as a legitimate
higher education institution to recruit
Chinese students
• 181 international students at SWPS in
academic year 2009/2010

21. Academic summit
meetings at SWPS
SWPS often hosts leading
Polish and foreign academics
and personalities, among those
who recently visited us were:
• Robert Cialdini
• Michael Eysenck
• Andrzej Wajda
• Szewach Weiss
• Philip Zimbardo

22. High Voltage Culture is a
unique artistic space
• High Voltage Gallery –
exhibitions of the
recognized photographers
from Poland and abroad
• Film Discussion Club

23. Thank you!
For further information please contact:
Office for International Students
e-mail: leonid.markusyk@swps.edu.pl
Skype: leonid.markusyk