Description of the attraction
Warsaw University is the most prestigious university in Poland. Included in the list of 200 best universities in the world according to the British magazine "Times". The university was founded in 1816 by the Emperor of Russia and the Polish King Alexander I. The university consisted of 5 faculties: the Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences, the Faculty of Medicine (10 departments), the Faculty of Theology (6 departments), the Faculty of Philosophy and the Faculty of Sciences and Arts (on this Chopin studied at the faculty from 1826 to 1829).
In 1830, Tsar Nicholas I, in memory of his brother Alexander I, renamed the university to Alexandrovsky. However, the Polish uprising that happened shortly after the renaming caused the closure of the university. In 1857, the Medical and Surgical Academy was opened in Warsaw, and in 1862 the Warsaw School, which has 4 divisions: Law and Administration, Philology and History, Mathematics and Physics, Medicine. Since 1866, all students of the Warsaw School were obliged to pass an exam on knowledge of the Russian language to a committee of Russian teachers. In October 1869, the School was transformed into the Imperial University of Warsaw. During the First World War, the university was evacuated to Rostov-on-Don. During World War II, all Polish higher education institutions were closed. The university was converted into a military barracks. Despite the bans, many teachers continued to teach in private homes.
Today, the University of Warsaw consists of 20 faculties: Faculty of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Biology, Faculty of Chemistry, Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Faculty of Physics, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Faculty of Geology, Faculty of History, Faculty of Applied Linguistics, Faculty Computer Science, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Pedagogical Faculty, Faculty of Polish Studies, Psychology and Management.
