Number of students per one lecturer in the academic year 2010/2011 at Polish univeristies

As at the end of December 2010, 103.5 thousand academic teachers worked in universities  (full-time and part-time equivalent to full-time employment), including 1.9 thous. foreigners. Teachers working in public schools accounted for almost 82.7% of the total number of employees in higher education, and lecturers from non-public universities - 17.3%. Compared to the previous year, there was a slight increase in the number of academic teachers working in universities (by 0.1%), which, combined with a decrease in the number of students (by 3.1%), should improve the availability of teaching staff for students. In this respect, the situation of public universities is much better than that of non-public universities (nearly 15 and 32 students per lecturer, respectively). Moreover, art schools, medical universities and colleges of theology stand out positively, with less than 10 students per one academic teacher, while in higher economic schools the number of students per one teacher is 31.