Łódź is home to three major state-owned
universities and a number of smaller schools of higher education. The biggest is the
University of Łódź and for the last four years the best students in Łódź (according to the prestigious contest "Studencki Nobel") have been studying there - in 2009 the regional laureate was Piotr Pawlikowski, in 2010 - Joanna Dziuba, in 2011 and 2012 -
Paweł Rogaliński.[1][2]
The number of students in the higher education establishments in Łódź is still growing. They educate 113,000 students from Poland and other countries.