The Polish state provides appropriate legal and organizational conditions for the recruitment and education of foreigners at Polish universities. More and more foreigners want to study in Poland. In the 2019-2020 academic year, over 77 thousand foreign students studied and from the 2016-2017 academic year, the number of foreign students has increased by 27 percent – says the latest report of the Supreme Audit Office (NIK) devoted to the education of foreigners at Polish universities.
At the end of 2019, most students came from Ukraine (38.5 thousand people), Belarus (8.2 thousand people), India (3.3 thousand people), Norway, China and Germany (1.4 thousand people each).
The most popular fields of study among foreigners in the 2019/2020 academic year are: Medicine (7.4 thousand people), Management (2.1 thousand people), IT (1.7 thousand people), International Relations (1.2 thousand people) and Medicine and Dentistry (1.1 thousand people).
The NIK report emphasizes that the joint actions of the Minister of Science and Higher Education, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the National Agency for Academic Exchange and the audited universities allowed for a gradual increase in the internationalization of higher education in accordance with the foreign policy priorities and assumptions of development cooperation adopted by the Council of Ministers.
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