WSPiA Rzeszowska Szkoła Wyższa (WSPiA) is a private University in
Podkarpacie
Subcarpathian Voivodeship or Subcarpathia Province (in pl, Województwo podkarpackie ) is a voivodeship, or province, in the southeastern corner of Poland. Its administrative capital and largest city is Rzeszów. Along with the Marshall, it is ...
, Poland. The oldest private University in the province, it was founded in 1995, and it entered into the register of non-public universities under the number 75. The
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (MCSU) ( pl, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, UMCS) was founded October 23, 1944 in Lublin. It is named in honour of Marie Curie-Sklodowska. Currently the number of students is almost 36,000. The ...
in
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...
was under the patronage of the WSPiA. Until December 2007, it operated under the name of the Higher School of Administration and Management, and then University of Law and Administration in Rzeszów - Przemyśl. Currently, the university is called WSPiA Rzeszowska Szkoła Wyższa and its seat is in
Rzeszów
Rzeszów ( , ; la, Resovia; yi, ריישא ''Raisha'')) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów has been the capital of the Subcarpathian Vo ...
. It has the status of a non-public academic university.
WSPiA is also the
City and Guilds linguistic examination center since May 2004 and
TOLES since January 2011.
In 2009, about 10,000 students studied at the university. The university runs full-time and extramural studies in the following fields: Administration (1st and 2nd degree), Management (1st degree), Internal Security (1st and 2nd degree), Law (uniform master's degree). It is also the organizer of international and national scientific conferences.
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Universities in Poland
Educational institutions established in 1995
1995 establishments in Poland