Admission

Admission Eligibility
Every foreign candidate who wishes to study in Poland must hold a maturity certificate in order to qualify for admission to a higher education institution (HEI).

Maturity Certificate - a certificate of the completion of a higher secondary school abroad may be accepted if the total duration of the education leading to the certificate has been at least 11 years.

Maturity certificates issued in the countries with which Poland has an agreement on recognition of educational credentials do not have to be recognized. The list of these countries is available on the following website: www.buwiwm.edu.pl/rec/index-legal.htm

Certificates of the completion of a secondary school originating from other countries must be formally recognized, that is nostrified, by the Polish educational authority.

Foreign maturity certificate or secondary school completion certificates may be accepted (nostrified) as equivalent to the Polish maturity certificates if:

• the total duration of the education leading to these certificates is at least 11 years;
• they are legalized.

The apostille is the legalisation provided by the appropriate institution in the country where the certificate was issued - they contain a clause confirming the right to apply for admission to all HEIs in the country where the certificate was issued.

If this is not the case, the applicant must supply, together with the school certificate, a letter from an appropriate authority in the country where the certificate was issued (i.e. the Ministry of Education, local educational authority etc.) stating that with such a certificate the candidate is eligible for admission to all HEIs. The Polish Foreign Service representative office or a Consular Office can offer advice on how to obtain such a document or can assess as to whether the presented certificate entitles the holder to apply to HEIs in a given foreign country.

The Polish foreign service representative office or a consular office can offer advice on:

• how to obtain such a document
• can access as to whether the presented certificate entitles the holder to apply to HEI in Poland

Courses and programs
Undergraduate degrees take between 3.5 to 4 years and those completing those studies are awarded a B.Sc. in Engineering. The postgraduate program for B.Sc or B.Eng. graduates takes between 1.5 to 2 years and ends with an M.Sc. in Engineering. Doctoral studies (for M.Sc. or M.Eng. graduates) take extra 4 years.

Undergraduate and graduate courses are offered by the following faculties: Electronics and Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Power and Aeronautical Engineering (which also coordinates Mechanical Engineering inter-faculty course), and Mathematics and Information Science. The Faculty of Civil Engineering offers an undergraduate program, the Faculty of Chemistry and the Centre for Biotechnology conduct postgraduate courses (M.Eng, Ph.D). Moreover there are 3 Erasmus Mundus 2 years master programs approved and supported by EU.

Those are:
EMARO - master program in Advanced Robotics;
M.E.S.C. - master program in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion;
OpSciTech - master course providing a comprehensive and multidisciplinary coverage of the field of Optics.

WUT Business School offers a one year postgraduate MBA program. The majority of the 17 WUT Faculties welcome applications from foreign students for doctoral studies.

The tuition fee depends on both the choice of faculty and on the selected course level (B.Eng, M.Eng, MBA or Ph.D). It ranges from €1000 up to €2500 for one semester (an academic year consists of 2 semesters) and €4000 (MBA). Successful applicants can apply for tuition fee exemption.