Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities / SWPS

The Best Non-Public Academic Institution in

Poland in the field of Social Sciences*

* According to the 2010 Ranking of Perspektywy and Rzeczpospolita

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

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

SWPS Faculty • more than 900 including

146 Professors and 152 Doctors of Philosophy

• internationally renowned scholars, journalists, artists and practitioners

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

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

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

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

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 implementedSince 2000 when we obtained the first grant fourty nine different research

projects have been completed

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

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

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

Faculty of Philology in Warsaw [areas of study programmes and research]

• English studies• Oriental studies• Polish studies• Scandinavian studies• Spanish studies • Italian studies

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

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

Turning Theory into Practice

• continually extended academic offer

• modern interdisciplinary study fields and programmes

• transfer of most up to date practical knowledge and skills

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

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

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 UniversityRobin Vallacher, Florida UniversityAndrea Bartoli, George Mason University, Washington

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

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

High Voltage Culture is a unique artistic space

• High Voltage Gallery – exhibitions of the recognized photographers from Poland and abroad

• Film Discussion Club

Thank you!

For further information please contact:

Office for International Students e-mail: leonid.markusyk@swps.edu.pl Skype: leonid.markusyk