Any information about Kujawy and Pomorze University in Bydgoszcz

I will be Erasmus student in Kujawy and Pomoże University in Bydgoszcz. I wonder if you know anything about the university? Like education level or student quality..etc.

Could someone correct his spelling of Pomoże to "Pomorze", please. It looks so incredibly awful to the Polish eye!

Pomoże - he will help
Pomorze - Pomerania (a region in the North and North-West Poland, and also partially in Germany)

About the Kuyavia-Pomerania University, I won't tell you much, because I don't know this school. I also don't know much about Bydgoszcz. Maybe that there is a really nice looking and worth visiting city not far away, called Toruń. And that people from Bydgoszcz and from Toruń don't really like each other. There is always a kind of competition between them.

It seems this is a private school (the name is a little bit misleading, especially the English one, which suggests it has university rights, while it actually doesn't have them). The public universities in Poland usually have more reputation, but it doesn't mean at all that the educational level in private schools must be low. It sometimes is (although, it seems, in Kuyavia-Pomerania University everything is ok), which is not the case in case of public universities. The quality of teaching can be even higher in private schools.

You will be studying there, so chances are you've applied there not by accident. And you're now asking others to tell you "anything about the university"? Sorry, but this is beyond me, asI would expect any half-awake student to do a rough search before committing to such an endeavour. Students these days... and with all the powers of google at their fingertips... ;-( Not to mention that you do not even state where you will be arriving from, what langiages you speak, what will you be studying, how long, what year, etc...

Can't disagree with the above.

I know how to use Google and read all Kpsw's page but I couldn't find any comments about the University that's why I'm asking here. Because I need comments and forums provide comments as soon as I know. I wonder If University has a bad reputation or sth like that. It's not a spesific thing, yeah? And yeah, I didn't mention about many things like my education time or my native language or etc. because it's not the case, I am asking sth different. On the other hand, I still have time to change my mind. Thank you guys for helping and being judgemental.

Hi Hazal,

I doubt you'll get any answers here, students usually don't write on this forum (unless to ask questions like yours), as far as I've noticed.

Maybe try to ask on this forum:

erasmusu.com/en/erasmus-bydgoszcz/erasmus-forum

There's some info about this school in Polish on Wikipedia:

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kujawsko-Pomorska_Szko%C5%82a_Wy%C5%BCsza_w_Bydgoszczy

In the section "Achievements" it says it got some medals and commendations, "The Trustworthy School" certificate, among others. In 2005 and 2006 it was in the first place in "Perspektywy" (a magazine about studies in Poland, during my highschool days people would check the ratings of univeristies and colleges there) and "Rzeczpospolita" (a serious Polish daily newspaper) in rankings of non-public schools in Bydgoszcz that provide vocational and licentiate studies. It was 10 years ago, however, and Bydgoszcz isn't a terribly big city but it means the school has been around for some time and it isn't some kind of scam and probably not complete crap, I guess ;) It is also mentioned that in 2011 as the only school in Poland it was chosen as a partner for pope's Benedict XVI The Ratzinger Foundation, but I don't know how relevant this is.

I've found some opinions in Polish by Polish students about this school (bear in mind that the level of studies can be different for foreign students though - could be worse).

Opinions vary.
Here, for example, some students complain about the lack of organisation (comments from 2013) and the level of education (and some others disagree, say it's not bad and that they're satisfied, some say it's a school as other schools - if you want to learn something, you will):

forum.pomorska.pl/kujawsko-pomorska-szkola-wyzsza-w-bydgoszczy-opinie-t131784

I've translated some comments:

Marcin
posted on the 2nd of October 2013
This school is another shop with diplomas, majority of serious employers don't respect diplomas from those pseudo-schools of higher education in which you pass because you pay and your level of knowledge and skills equals zero.

Janek
posted on the 6th of October 2013
Pretty good school or at least the best among the private ones in Bydgoszcz. I've studied for my master's degree in economy there. Then he complains about Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa in Bydgoszcz where he got his licentiate and states that Kujawy and Pomorze University compares favoubarly: Lecturers are open and it turns out they're indeed specialists with many years of practice in the profession who go to Brussels and who make use of their knowledge in practice and not only during lectures.

guest
posted on the 31st of August 2013
Unfortunately I've heard the school can't boast about the best of levels. I know a few people who graduated from there and they themselves confirm that the rule over there is: you pay so you pass... and in my opinion they indeed aren't exactly the best students and yet they have their master's degree. I think that it is better to pick places that don't have "szkoła" or "uczelnia" in their names. Why don't you try a university?

There are quite a few opinions here too:

opinieouczelniach.pl/opinie/kujawsko-pomorska-szkola-wyzsza-w-bydgoszczy

But those opinions are in Polish. I'm sorry, but I don't have more time for translating. Maybe someone else will translate some comments (or try Google Translate).

I think the best option for you, though, would be to contact other Erasmus students who study/studied there.
Here you have a thread about this school in Turkish:

erasmusum.com/showthread.php?tid=5378

And here:
erasmusum.com/showthread.php?tid=5960

Here's a video of a Turkish guy who I guess is/was an Erasmus student in Poland and is visiting a zoo in Bydgoszcz which could mean that he is/was studying in this city so maybe try to contact him:



Good luck! :)

Btw, you have a pretty name ^__^

Hello Paulina,

I met some guys on internet already which they study other universities in Bydgoszcz. Your comments are really helpful. Thank you a lot especially for translating comments and sharing your time.

Finally, I guess you have some information or relation with Turkey. Do you want anything to bring you from Turkey to thank you?

A kilo of hashish will do ;-)

Oh, that's great, so you can ask them about stuff. Don't they know anyone who's studying at the Kujawy and Pomorze University?


You're welcome :)


Not really, I just watched a few Turkish TV series on Polish TV (like "Muhteşem Yüzyıl" for example) and that got me interested in Turkey a bit :)


That's very nice of you :) but that's not necessary and I don't live in Bydgoszcz so you wouldn't be able to give it to me anyway.

But you could bring something typically Turkish to Poland for other students - I'm sure such gesture would break the first ice, etc. When I was on Taizé meeting in Germany, for example, an Italian girl brought some Italian cheese and offered it to me and other Polish girls which was nice :)

Btw, are there any typically Turkish foods, drinks, sweets, stuff like that?


Dude, I don't even smoke cigarettes lol

Oh come on! Do you really need to make this international?
Bydgoszcz has been changing rapidly for last years. Come and see. Both cities have many things to offer and the people really don't care about that pseudo conflict (maybe only some politicians do, if they don't have anything else to offer).

Cinek