Cost of Studying in Poland (2027) for International Students

Poland runs a Bologna three-cycle higher education system across more than 130 public and roughly 250 private institutions, with English-taught bachelor's and master's programmes, including medicine, now common at the largest public universities. Non-EU applicants generally register through each university's own online recruitment platform, pay a tuition fee set per programme rather than one national fee table, and enter the country on a national type D visa before converting to a temporary residence permit for the length of the course.

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Non-EU tuition is set by each university per programme rather than through one national fee table. Across the flagship public universities researched for this site, confirmed English-taught fees run from about EUR 1,500 to EUR 18,000 a year depending on the field, with medicine and architecture toward the top of that range and humanities, social science and several engineering programmes toward the bottom; some universities instead publish a per-semester figure covering the same range. Polish-taught programmes for non-EU students are commonly billed in PLN instead, often from around PLN 4,000 to PLN 27,000 a year depending on the field. Beyond tuition, a realistic student living budget in Warsaw runs from about PLN 1,600 to PLN 2,500 a month in a dormitory or shared flat up to roughly PLN 5,000 for a fuller budget, per the University of Warsaw's own cost-of-living page; smaller university cities are generally cheaper. This does not include the national visa fee (EUR 135), the temporary residence permit's PLN 340 stamp duty and PLN 100 card fee, or mandatory health insurance.