Higher education in the 2023/24 academic year – preliminary data

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17.06.2024

As of 31 December 2023, there were 1,245.2 thousand people enrolled in higher education institutions in Poland, by 21.5 thousand more than in 2022. 292.1 thousand graduates received diplomas in the 2022/23 academic year, by 0.5 thousand fewer than in 2021/22.

According to the POL-on register, 354 higher education institutions operated in Poland in the 2023/24 academic year. This study covers 342 HEIs which filed statistical reports.

The number of students decreased from 1,405.1 thousand to 1,204.0 thousand in the 2015/16-2019/20 academic years, then it began increasing to reach 1,245.2 thousand people in the 2023/24 academic year. A steady decline, from 364.6 thousand people in the 2015/16 academic year to 292.1 thousand in 2022/23, was recorded in the number of graduates (a slight increase was recorded only in the 2016/17 and 2020/21 academic years).

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