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Universities in Poland
Poland has 146 universities on the map. The oldest dates to 1364. 1 was founded before 1600. Below: how they spread across the centuries, and the country’s oldest institutions. From Wikidata, snapshot 2026-06-22.
UNIVERSITIES146
OLDEST1364
FOUNDED 1900+139
By founding era
Before 12000 · 0%
1200–15991 · 1%
1600–18994 · 3%
1900 or later139 · 95%
Date unknown2 · 1%
Oldest universities in Poland
The country’s earliest institutions — the deepest roots of higher education here.
1364Jagiellonian University
1702University of Wrocław
1816University of Warsaw
1816Warsaw University of Life Sciences
1899Warsaw University of Technology
1904Gdańsk University of Technology
1906SGH Warsaw School of Economics
1910Wrocław University of Science and Technology
1913AGH University of Science and Technology
1918John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
1919Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
1919Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznań
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