Education in Krakow 

There are 145 elementary schools, szkola podstawowa, in the city with some 39,000 pupils.

Krakow’s 99 lower secondary schools, gimnazjum, teach 24,000 pupils or so.

The city’s 161 upper secondary schools boasts aggregate enrollment of over 40,000 students and their number break down into 10 vocational secondary schools (srednia szkola zawodowa), 31 basic vocational schools, 57 general high schools (liceum ogolnoksztalcace), 19 specialized high schools (liceum profilowane), 29 technical colleges, 5 supplementary technical colleges, and 10 artistic colleges.

Krakow’s 113 post-secondary vocational colleges, szkola policealna, number some 13,000 students.

Also Krakow’s 10 Catholic church seminaries provide the post-secondary education.

Adults may get further education in 91 schools, szkola dla doroslych, including one lower secondary school, 16 general high schools for adults, 21 supplementary general high schools, and 30 supplementary technical colleges.

Most preschools as well as schools from the elementary to the post-secondary ones are run by the Krakow municipality and financed largely by the central government’s subsidies but there is also a growing number the of private schools.

Every year over 170,000 students attend Krakow’s 25 institutions of higher education. The largest is the 650-year-old Jagiellonian University that together with its medical school totals nearly 45,000 students and 6,700 faculty members. The city’s other institutions of higher education include varied technology universities, arts academies, teacher-training colleges, bachelor-degree vocational colleges, and business schools.