Warsaw University - the most prestigious university in Poland. Included in the list of 200 best universities in the world by the British magazine "The Times". The university was founded in 1816 by the Emperor of Russia and King of Poland Alexander I. The University consisted of five faculties: Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Medicine (10 departments) Faculty of Theology (6 chairs), the Faculty of Philosophy and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (in this Faculty from 1826 to 1829 he studied Chopin).

In 1830 Tsar Nicholas I in memory of his brother Alexander I, renamed the University of Alexander. However, soon after the incident of renaming the Polish uprising caused the closure of the university. In 1857, in Warsaw opened the Medical-Surgical Academy, and in 1862 the Warsaw School, which has 4 divisions: law and management, philology and history, mathematics and physics, and medicine. Since 1866, all students of the Warsaw School were required to take the exam on the knowledge of Russian Committee of the Russian teachers. In October 1869 The school was transformed into the Imperial University of Warsaw. During World War I the university was evacuated to Rostov-on-Don. During the Second World War, all Polish universities were closed. The University was transformed into a military barracks. Despite the ban, many teachers continued to give lessons in private homes.

Today Warsaw University consists of 20 faculties: Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Biology, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Department of Physics, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Faculty of Geology, Department of History, Faculty of Applied Linguistics, Faculty Computer Science, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Polish Studies, psychology and management.