At some leading universities, there are 20 or so applicants for each place available in the most popular courses.
The University of Warsaw offers about 100 fields of study to choose from. The most popular are psychology, management, English studies, and law.
The Warsaw University of Technology, the best technical school of higher learning in Poland, has an impressive list of courses on offer, including cybersecurity, computer science, mathematics and data analysis.
Agnieszka Bielawska has the story.
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