The structure of revenues of non-public universities in 2010 from didactic activity by sources of financing (in%)

Income from teaching activities of non-public universities accounted for almost 1/5 of income from teaching activities of all types of universities. Non-public universities generated the highest revenues from fees for teaching classes, which accounted for over half of the revenues from this title in relation to all universities.The average cost of education is calculated by dividing the total cost of education at the university by the number of conversion students. Total education costs are calculated in two variants:a) Option I - as the sum of own costs of basic operating activity, own costs of research activity and separated economic activity, used fund of financial aid for students and own scholarship fund;b) Option II - as a sum of own costs of teaching activities, the fund of financial aid for students and own scholarship fund.In 2010, the own costs (calculated according to variant I) of non-public higher education institutions accounted for 15.6% of the cost of education in Poland. This share for public universities is much higher and amounts to 84.4%. According to the calculation according to variant II, the costs of non-public universities accounted for 17.4% of the costs of education in Poland.