Admissions 2023/2024 – current

ENROLLMENT STEPS

We understand that you may not be a fan of instructions, but check out the links below. This information can save you hours of your precious time, dozens of emails and a lot of stress.

Watch a video about the general IRK application procedure: http://rekrutacja.uw.edu.pl/en/multimedia/)

See a presentation with a Cognitive Science candidate „road map”: ADMISSIONS.pdf

 

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Admission rules for candidates with Polish and foreign diplomas

Candidates can apply for studies if they have a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, engineer’s degree or equivalent.

 

 

Checking the Candidates’ competences to undertake studies conducted in English language

Candidates are obliged to hold an accepted by the UW document confirming English language knowledge at least at B2 level.

A complete list of documents to certify proficiency in English (points 5-8): http://rekrutacja.uw.edu.pl/files/pdf/Documents-knowledge_of_English_EN.pdf

 

Deadlines

Phase 1 of registration (through the IRK system): 6th of June, 2023, 00:00 – 6th of July, 2023, 23:59

Date of the exam: 14th of July, 2023; Time: 12:00 – 13:00; Location: Faculty of Psychology, 5/7 Stawki Str. (https://g.page/WPsUW)

Announcement of results (IRK): 20th of July, 2023

Reception of documents (room 1, ground floor):

• I round: 21st, 24th-25nd of July, 2023 (21st: 10 AM – 3 PM; 24th: 1 PM – 5 PM; 25th: 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM and 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM)
• II round (in case of not fulfilling the limit during I round): 26th-27th of July, 2023 (26th: 10 AM – 3 PM; 27th: 1 PM – 5 PM)
• III round (in case of not fulfilling the limit during II round): 28th, 31st of July, 2023 (28th: 10 AM – 3 PM; 31st: 1 PM – 5 PM)
• in case of not fulfilling the limit druring previous rounds the Admission Committee will announce next deadlines

 

Phase 2 of registration (through the IRK system): 19th of August, 2023, 00:00 – 11th of September, 2023, 23:59

Date of the exam: – 19th  September, 2023

Announcement of results (IRK): –22 th  September, 2023

Reception of documents (room 1, ground floor): 

• I round: 25th and 26th September, 2023 
• II round (in case of not fulfilling the limit during I round): 27th-30h of September, 2023 
• in case of not fulfilling the limit druring previous rounds the Admission Committee will announce next deadlines

Limit of places:

32: 20 in the Phase 1 (June/July) and 12 in the Phase 2 (August/September)

 

Admissions Committee address

Admissions Committee (Cognitive Science)
Faculty of Psychology
University of Warsaw
Stawki 5/7
00-183 Warsaw, Poland

cogsci@psych.uw.edu.pl

 

Tuition fees

• The programme is free for students from Poland, EU, EFTA and Swiss Confederation. For other students the tuition is 3000 EUR for each year.

Application and tuition fees

 

QUALIFICATION RULES 2023/24 

The applicant is qualified on the basis of an entrance written exam in English which measures the basic knowledge of cognitive science and formal logic, as well as the ability of critical reading of scientific papers. It will be a multiple-choice test with one correct answer, based on the following readings:

1. Bermudez, J. L. (2014). Cognitive science: an introduction to the science of the mind.
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

2. Dienes, Z. (2008). Understanding Psychology as a Science: An Introduction to Scientific
and Statistical Inference (chapter 3). Palgrave.

3. Nieder A. (2012). Supramodal numerosity selectivity of neurons in primate prefrontal and
posterior parietal cortices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the
United States of America, 109(29), 11860–11865
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204580109

4. Online introductory Python programming course:
http://cogsci.uw.edu.pl/admissions/python-intro/

5. Partee, B. H., ter Meulen, A., & Wall, R. E. (1990). Mathematical methods in linguistics.
Dordrecht: Kluver Academic.
 Chpt 1, pp. 3-26
 Chpt 2, pp. 27-37
 Chpt 3, pp. 39-53
 Chpt 6.1-6.4, pp. 97-112
 Chpt 7.1-7.2, pp. 135-145

6. Starr, A., Libertus, M. E., & Brannon, E. M. (2013). Number sense in infancy predicts
mathematical abilities in childhood. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of
the United States of America, 110(45), 18116–18120.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1302751110

7. Testolin, A., Dolfi, S., Rochus, M., & Zorzi, M. (2020). Visual sense of number vs. sense
of magnitude in humans and machines. Scientific Reports, 10(1),
[10045]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66838-5

Maximum number of points from the qualification exam: 100. Within the current admission limit applicants will be qualified on the basis of their exam score, which shall not be lower than 60%.

 

PRACTICAL INFO FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS