One of the buildings of the University of Warsaw in Poland, c.1989.

Poland has some great universities. The best of these offer a higher education of a standard up there with the best colleges and universities in the world. Here then is a list of what are widely considered the best and consistently highest ranked universities in Poland. All of the below feature in the newly published Times Higher Education ‘World University Rankings 2016′.

A picture postcard image of the Jagiellonian library at the University of Krakow in Poland, c.1930.

1 – University of Warsaw
2 – Warsaw University of Technology
3 – Jagiellonian University in Krakow
4 – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
5 – AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow
6 – Gdansk University of Technology
7 – University of Lodz
8 – Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
9 – University of Silesia in Katowice

The main building of the University of Adam Mickiewicz (German: Reichsuniversität) in Poznan, c.1941.

According to the same ranking system the best university in the world is the University of Oxford in England. View the full results here.