Kozminski University

The Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego ( German: Leon Koźmiński Academy ) is a private business school in Warsaw. The state-recognized university is listed in the European Business School ranking by the Financial Times in 2011 at number 60. It is one of the world's nearly 60 business schools with a so-called Triple Crown university accreditation and is the only institute in Poland below.

History

The college was founded in 1993 as Wyższa SzkoĹ Przedsiębiorczości i Zarządzania by Andrzej Koźmiński. Koźmiński, who had previously taught as a professor at the Warsaw University, called the academy created by him in 2008 after his father, the late Leon Koźmiński in the founding year.

The university offers Polish and English language training programs at the Bachelor, Master, Postgraduate, Master of Business Administration and a PhD in the fields of study business management, finance, law, sociology, and business psychology.

In 1999, the college was the first business school in Central and Eastern Europe, the prestigious EQUIS accreditation. The accreditation by AACSB in 2011 was granted its first university in Poland. Since 2011, the Academy is the only private business school in Poland with Ph.D. and habilitation degrees in the discipline of business administration. The competent Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Polish: Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego ) had already approved in 2009, the right to award doctorates in economics subjects.

Since October 2011, together with the Cooperative State University Mannheim a double degree program is offered.

The university publishes the bi-monthly scientific journal Management and Business Administration. Central Europe. The manageable campus is located in Warsaw's Praga district town Polnoc. By 2008, about 9,000 students had participated in programs of the university. Rectors since 2012 Witold Bielecki.