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Warsaw School of Computer Science is a private university established on the basis of the decision of the Minister of Science and Higher Education dated 19th July 2000.
The School offers academic courses ending with B.Sc. (engineer’s) and M.Sc. (master's) degrees as well as postgraduate studies ran exclusively in the field of computer science. Furthermore the School organizes a wide range of computer courses for computer science graduates and for open audience.
At present nearly one thousand and three hundred Polish and foreign students study at Warsaw School of Computer Science and gain their first and higher professional IT skills. The competence they achieve is confirmed by state diplomas - engineer's diploma, master's diploma and computer science postgraduate diploma. Additionally, students have an opportunity to obtain ICT sector certificates, which are highly valued on the labour market.
Apart from academic courses, students participate in the activities of students' scientific groups of interest as well as student council and in sports and recreational events. The Warsaw School of Computer Science, by participating in European programmes, also offers its students an opportunity to participate in the international student exchange.
Each year around 5000 participants take part in open forms of education, including training courses, lectures, seminars, conferences and other educational events organized by the School.
The school employs nearly 100 members of academic staff (including 13 professors and 15 doctors - assistant professors) with the highest qualifications, including many IT specialists - practitioners also working for ICT sector companies.
Warsaw School of Computer Science is a member of the Conference of Rectors of Polish Higher Vocational Schools and of an International Council for Distance Education.
The School has at its disposal its own up-to-date research and didactic facilities. The College is situated in the centre of Warsaw, nearby the monuments of the city's history and tradition (the Old Town, Ghetto, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews) and contemporary institutions of the finance and business centre of the Polish capital.
Academic Programmes
First level studies
Warsaw School of Computer Science offers 3.5-year (7-semester) COMPUTER SCIENCE studies of the 1st (engineer's) level with the following specializations:
Second level studies
The School offers 2-year (4-semester) COMPUTER SCIENCE studies of the 2nd level with the following specializations:
Postgraduate studies
The School offers 1-year (2-semester) post graduate studies with the following specializations:
Warsaw School of Computer Science draws on the long tradition of Mila College, an IT-School, well-known on the Warsaw educational market. It also looks deeply into future carrying out long-term nation-wide educational projects, such as Polska Wszechnica Informatyczna (Polish Open Computer Science Platform) and Informatyka + (A European Union financed project for 15 000 secondary school's students from central and eastern Poland).
The School is the only university in Poland where the members of the Rector's Advisory Board are General Managers of the Polish branches of the world's biggest IT companies: Microsoft, Hewllett - Packard, Cisco, Intel, IBM and Oracle. The School participates in Microsoft IT Academy Program, Cisco Networking Academy Project, Cisco Entrepreneur Institute, IBM Scholars Program and Oracle Academic Initiative.
In 2006 Warsaw School of Computer Science was honoured with an invitation of its Rector to participate in the meeting of IT education leaders from Central and East European universities with Bill Gates, the Head of Microsoft (see the photo).
In 2007 the School gained a positive assessment of its work by the Polish State Accreditation Commission and it was very well assessed for the realisation in the years 2006-2008 of the cycle of post-graduate studies financed from the European Social Fund entitled "teleinformatics for the business". By the decision of the Minister of Science and Higher Education dated 7 February 2008 Warsaw School of Computer Science obtained entitlement to offer computer science studies for an indefinite time.
The European Commission awarded Warsaw School of Computer Science with Erasmus University Charter - Extended valid until 2014.
In 2009 Warsaw School of Computer Science was honoured with the prestigious New@Poland 2008/09 award, given by the Polish Association of Private IT and Telecom Employers - Lewiatan. Warsaw School of Computer Science was the winner in the e-society category for the project "Polska Wszechnica Informatyczna" (Polish Open Computer Science Platform) in recognition of practical solutions regarding education for IT society.
In its short, 10-year history nearly one thousand and six hundred students graduated from the School - IT specialists who are valued for their professionalism and willingly employed by the Polish and foreign companies.
The beginning of the 10th academic year in the School History was celebrated by the whole staff with seminar which took place in magnificent rooms of Collegium Maius of Krakow's Jagiellonian University. The seminar was opened by prof. Ryszard Tadeusiewicz (AGH University of Science and Technology). Academic lecture at the Opening Ceremony of the 2009/2010 academic year was given by prof. Jan Madey - the vice president of Polish Main Council of Higher Education.
In order to find out more about Warsaw School of Computer Science send your questions to rektorat@wwsi.edu.pl.
The meeting of IT education leaders from Middle and East European universities with Bill Gates, Warsaw 2006. In the photo, sitting: first from the left: Andrzej Żyławski, Rector of Warsaw School of Computer Science; next prof. dr hab. inż. Bogdan Galwas, Dean of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology of Warsaw University of Technology.
