Vistula University

Vistula University

Akademia Finansów i Biznesu Vistula
Established	1 October 1992
Rector	Wawrzyniec Konarski, PhD, DSc
Location	Warsaw , Masovia , Poland
Campus	Urban
Website	https://www.vistula.edu.pl

University rankings
Regional – Overall
QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia	401-450 (2022)

Vistula University (VU; Polish: Akademia Finansów i Biznesu Vistula) is a private university in Warsaw, Poland. It was established in 1992 as the University of Insurance and Banking. Its branch since 2019, is Aleksander Gieysztor Academy of Humanities in Pułtusk.

Vistula University offers courses in management, finance and accounting, international relations, economics, philology, journalism, graphics, architecture and computer engineering, pedagogy, history, political science and national security. The university's study offer comprises bachelor's, master's, engineering, doctoral, and MBA programs conducted in Polish and English. The university remains in close cooperation with ICCSS (International Center for Chemical Safety) in Warsaw.

Academic programs

Vistula University offers the following programs in Polish and English:

Economics

VU award bachelor's degrees in the following fields of specialization:

• Bachelor in Finance
• Bachelor in Banking
• Bachelor in International Business and Trade
• Bachelor in Accounting
• Bachelor in Integration with EU Economics and EU Funds
• Bachelor in Economics Sociology
• Bachelor in Application of Computer Science in Economics

VU award master's degrees in the following fields of specialization:

• Master in International Finance and Banking
• Master in International Business and Trade
• Master in European Studies and EU Funds
• Master in Business Tourism
• Master in Application of Computer Science in Economics

Computer science/engineering

VU awards Bachelor's and master's degrees in the following fields of specialization:

• Internet Technologies
• Computer Systems Management
• Application of Computer Technologies in Business
• Database Applications

International relations

VU awards bachelor's degrees in the following fields of specialization:

• European Union Studies
• Diplomacy
• International Economic Relations
• Sociology of International Relations
• Political Sociology

Tourism and recreation

VU awards bachelor's degrees in the following fields of specialization:

• Business Tourism
• Hotel Management
• International Tourism

Philology

Vistula University awards bachelor's degrees in the following fields:

• Business English
• Linguistics – Translation
• Contrastive Linguistics
• Cultural Studies

Sociology

Vistula University awards bachelor's degrees in the following fields of specialization:

• Media and Communication
• Sociology in Business
• Political Sociology

Graduate studies

Graduate program in Polish:

• Real Estate Management
• Real Estate Valuation
• Human Resource Management
• EU Lobbying (in association with Ambassador's Club and BCC Business Center Club)
• Methodology of Teaching Foreign Languages
• Specialised Translation
• Integrated IT Systems in Companies
• Creation and Management of Companies

Graduate program in English:

• Hospitality Management (in association with top Hotels and Restaurants located in Warsaw)

Library

VU library has a collection of books, periodicals and digital media to support the education research activities at the university. All books and media are catalogued and searchable online.

Vistula University library has:

• 120,000 volumes
• 130 comfortable seats for students in the reading room
• 30 desktop PCs inside the campus enabling the students to use library resources online
• 14 PCs with the library catalogues
• 2 PCs with access to the research database LEX POLONICA
• MAK computer system which provides access to the National Library databases

Sports

There is a broad range of sport facilities where University students engage in sports individually or in teams. VU has a sports hall for basketball, volleyball, indoor soccer, badminton, table tennis, aerobics, and tennis courts, a gym and an open tartan basketball court. Currently the leading and most active sport sections are: rowing, badminton, indoor soccer, volleyball and Wushu.

Social life and student affairs

VU students have many opportunities for extra-curricular activities and for participating in social-academic events including:

• IFSA Network
• Ambassador's Club
• Badminton
• Indoor Football
• Volleyball
• Basketball
• Wushu
• Tennis
• Table Tennis
• Athletes Club
• Vocal Ensemble
• Karaoke Club
• Chess Club
• Painting, Drawing & Photography Club
• Movie Makers Club
• Marketing Club
• Students’ European Economic and Social Science Circle
• Summer and Winter Camps
• Foreign Language Club

Scholarships

University offers scholarship and financial assistance to international students, primarily in the form of tuition fee waivers for top performing students.

International cooperation

The university cooperates with a number of universities including:

• Andalusian Association of Spanish Schools for Foreigners (Spain)
• Bahcesehir University (Turkey)
• Bleking Institute of Technology (Sweden)
• Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic)
• East Ukrainian National University (Ukraine)
• Fachhochschule Nordhausen (Germany)
• Gafgas University (Azerbaijan)
• International Business School (Hungary)
• Lyngby Business School (Denmark)
• Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (Austria)
• TOBB Economics and Technology University (Turkey)
• University of Applied Science (Germany)
• University of Florence (Italy)
• Minsk University (Belarus)
• Vigo University (Spain)
• Vilnius College in Higher Education (Lithuania)
• Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences (Austria)
• WESFORD (Grenoble, France)
• University of Perugia (Italy)
• Universidad de Almeria (Spain)
• Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University (India)

Preparatory School

The university offers preparatory language studies for international secondary school graduates who wish to study in Polish in the Vistula University or other institutions.