The Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities is the private university

University

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 in Poland. Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS) 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

Polish Academy of Sciences

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. SWPS is one of the largest private universities in Poland

Poland

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. It consists of 8 faculties in 5 different cities (Warsaw

Warsaw

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, Wrocław, Sopot

Sopot

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, Poznań

Poznan

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 and Katowice

Katowice

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). SWPS has about 13,500 full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students. SWPS was ranked by the Polish website www.perspektywy.pl as the second-best private college with master-degree programs in Poland in 2010 (out of 96 institutions).

SWPS offers 20 different study programmes, including 2 programmes in English, leading to Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees in major academic disciplines in social sciences and humanities.

Faculties

1. Faculty of Psychology
2. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
3. Faculty of Languages and Literatures
4. Faculty of Law
5. Campus in Sopot
6. Campus in Wrocław
7. Campus in Katowice
8. Campus in Poznań