Warsaw School of Economics (SGH)

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The Warsaw School of Economics (Szkola Glówna Handlowa w Warszawie, SGH) was founded in 1906 as the first public university of economics and management in Poland.

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Over 10000 students are enrolled at our School in bachelor and master degree programmes, 1400 are studying at the doctoral level and over 5300 are completing other postgraduate courses. SGH employs over 1400 staff members, of whom 860 are teaching and research staff.

In the 2010 edition of The Financial Times ranking of the Top 50 Masters in Management programmes,

SGH was among the best European economic universities. According to the 2010 edition of Eduniversal ranking, SGH is one of the top business schools in Eastern Europe.

In the opinion of journalists of the Polish edition of Newsweek, among all Polish universities it is SGH that gives its graduates the greatest chance of finding good jobs.

SGH students represent almost 60 countries.

Since the beginning of the economic transition in 1989, 11 out of 23 finance ministers of Poland were SGH graduates.

The main negotiator of the Polish membership in the European Union, from 5 December 2001 until the end of negotiations, was Jan Truszczy´nski – an SGH graduate and lecturer.

Professor Leszek Balcerowicz – an SGH graduate and lecturer, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, former President of the National Bank of Poland, is considered to be the main architect of the Polish economic transformation after 1989.

Professor Danuta Hübner, the first Polish commissioner in the European Commission (for Regional Policy), previously the Minister for European Affairs of the Republic of Poland and the Head of the Office of the Committee for European Integration and the Secretary of the State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, is an SGH graduate and lecturer.