The top 29 best Top-Ranked Universities in Poland 2023

11 Jan 2023

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Poland is an exciting country to study abroad, and Polish universities have been increasingly successful in international university rankings over recent years. The best-ranked universities in Poland are the University of Warsaw (the country’s largest) and Jagiellonian University in Cracow (the country’s oldest, dating back to the 14th century).

Top-ranked universities in Poland

University	QS Ranking 2023	THE Ranking 2022	ARWU Ranking 2022
University of Warsaw	284	601	401
Jagiellonian University	293	501	401
Poznan University of Life Sciences	521	–	–
Warsaw University of Technology	521	1201	901
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan (UAM)	801	1001	901
AGH University of Science and Technology	801	1201	601
Cracow University of Technology	801	1201	–
Gdansk University of Technology	801	1001	801
Lodz University of Technology	801	1201	–
Nicolaus Copernicus University	801	1001	901
Poznan University of Technology	801	1201	–
University of Gdansk	801	1201	–
University of Lodz	801	1201	–
University of Wroclaw	801	1201	–
Wrocław University of Science and Technology	801	1201	901
Lublin University of Technology	1001	–	–
Silesian University of Technology	1001	1201	–
University of Bialystok	1001	–	–
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn	1001	1201	–
Warsaw University of Life Sciences	1001	1201	801
University of Rzeszów	1201	–	–
University of Silesia in Katowice	1201	–	–
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University	–	1201	–
Medical University of Bialystok	–	1001	–
Medical University of Warsaw	–	1001	901
Rzeszow University of Technology	–	1201	–
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities	–	1001	–
Wroclaw Medical University	–	–	801
Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences	–	1201	–

Study in Poland

Poland is an exciting and modern destination for international students. Tuition fees in the Eastern European country are modest and the cost of living is extremely low, while the quality of teaching is high.

Explained: How do the university rankings work?

The QS World University Rankings are among the most important, most-referenced rankings. The QS ranking relies heavily on its academic survey, asking thousands of academics worldwide about the reputation of universities.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (or THE Rankings for short) compile a wide range of statistics. Equal weight is put on teaching quality, research excellence, and research impact through citations (meaning how often a university’s research is referenced elsewhere).

The Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (often just Shanghai Ranking, or ARWU) focuses on research output and quality, for example, measured by the number of published and cited scientific papers and the number of staff or alumni winning the Nobel Prize or Fields Medal.

Fast Facts

Located in central Europe
Area: 312,685 sq km
Population: around 38.4 million
Capital: Warsaw (also the largest city)
Borders with Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the Baltic sea
Students will need a minimum of 30,000 PLN (~US$7,820) per year to cover their living costs in Poland.
International tuition fees can reach up to ~US$4,180 per year at public universities.
Poland has a TV channel dedicated to the Pope.
National currency: zloty (PLN)
More winners of the “World’s Strongest Man” competition than any other location
17 Nobel Prize winners
9,300 lakes, 23 National Parks, and one dessert
90 percent of Poles have completed at least secondary education, the highest score in the EU, along with Czechs, Slovaks, and Slovenes.
Polish-born astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was the first person to suggest that the Earth was in fact not the center of the universe.
70 percent of the Nazi extermination camps during WWII were located in Poland, including the three most infamous, Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Belzec.