Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw is a public university. Therefore, it offers free full-time studies. This rule does not apply to part-time studies for which tuition fees are charged.

At full-time studies, classes are held during the day, from Monday to Friday. These courses of study are free at all the Faculties of UKSW.

Part-time studies are extramural studies where classes are held at weekend meetings (including Fridays at certain faculties). The faculty of Medicine is an exception – classes are held during the week. Part-time studies at UKSW are paid.

Anyone who wants to start a first-cycle, second-cycle or long-cycle course of study, or to start the Doctoral School at UKSW.

They usually start in June. We present a detailed schedule at the University’s home page each year, usually in May.

You can apply to study in more than one field simultaneously. There are no limits in place.

Yes, you can change your study field by the last day of the registration process.

The most popular fields of study in the 2021/2022 admissions were the following: Medicine, Psychology, Economy, International Relations, Sociology, Law, Information Sciences. For more information, go to the Candidates page, Admission Statistics tab.

In this case, only the matura exam results are registered. Additional qualification interviews are held for selected fields of study only (e.g. Journalism and Social Communications).

If you register before receiving your high school graduation certificate, you only need to enter the year in which you took the final exam. You will add the document number later when you receive your certificate (this usually happens by the end of June/early July).

You need to enter your matura results yourself. They will be included in your application for admission. IRK will download the results from KReM to calculate the candidates’ results in the admission procedure and to create ranking lists on this basis. The results retrieved from KReM will not be presented on the candidate’s application.

You only need to check those subjects which are required for determination of your application score and enter their results in the system.

IRK requires that you select and check the subjects you took at the high school graduation exam. Leave the result at nil until you receive your graduation certificate. When the results are known, you will need to add them to your IRK account.

Unfortunately, you cannot replace any of the subjects listed as the application criteria.

You need to make the payment when you have registered in the system. This is a prerequisite for being approved for the admission procedure.

The application fee is PLN 85 for each field of study. Journalism and Social Communication is an exception: PLN 100.

Yes.

To pay the application fee, you can either order a transfer at a bank, at a post office, or transfer the money online and print a confirmation afterwards.

The system will allocate the fees in the order of course selection. When the fees are posted to IRK, you will see a message “application fee has been paid” under your fields of study. You can then allocate the fees according to your preferences. To do this, go to the account home page and click “Fees” in “My Fields of Study” panel.

You can apply for reimbursement of your application fee only in the following situations:

1. invalid registration (late payment of application fee),
2. registration for fewer fields than covered by the payment (excess payment is reimbursed),
3. no registration for any field of study,
4. when the available limit in part-time studies has been reached,
5. absence at the entrance exam (justified and documented).