Recruitment procedure
The admission of candidates is conducted in accordance with the amendment to the PWSZ Senate Resolution 16/III/2015, of 20th April 2015, entitled "Recruitment terms and mode and the forms of studies in individual fields of study for Academic Year 2016/2017".

Stage I - on-line registration (obligatory)
The candidate registers on-line on the System IRK website, completing a form, which can be obtained through the Internet Candidate Registration system.

Stage II - document submission (obligatory)
After logging in and completing the form, every candidate should promptly deliver the set of the documents required to the School’s Dean Office, at 64C Batorego Street, by 17th September 2016. After this date, the decision regarding document submission is taken by the dean of a given faculty.

Required documents:
• the original secondary school exam certificate,
• four photographs 37x52 mm,
• entry fee payment slip; the fee is payable to
  PKO BP SA Oddział nr 1 w Skierniewicach 30 1020 4580 0000 1102 0067 5595
• a copy of the ID card and a copy of the Military ID (male candidates),
• personal data form (filled in and printed by the candidate during on-line registration),
• ankieta informacyjna dla kandydata na studia

The documents are to be submitted in a closable, paper file, labeled in the following way:
• candidate’s name and surname
• candidate’s address
• the chosen field of study
• the course preferred by the candidate

Stage III - recruitment procedure
The recruitment procedure is based on the secondary school final examination results. Detailed information is included in the next section of this part (Recruitment rules and mode). During the procedure, the Faculty Recruitment Commissions make lists of students admitted to individual courses.

Stage IV - announcing the recruitment results
Lists of the candidates admitted to the first year of studies, including the number of points they have obtained, are announced at the PWST main building (64 C Batorego Street). They are placed on the announcement board and on www.pwsz.skierniewice.pl, "Recruitment results" tab..

The date of announcing the results: 23^th September 2016

Stage V - appeal procedure The candidate may appeal against the Faculty Recruitment Commission’s decision to the School Candidate Recruitment Commission within 14 days of the date the candidate receives the original decision. The ultimate decision is taken by the Rector on the basis of the School Commission’s opinion.

Recruitment rules and mode

Recruitment procedure and admission limits
1. The candidate is admitted on the basis of the "matura" and "maturity" exams results.
2. Admission limits: 120 places - Economics, 120 places - Horticulture, 60 places - Dietetics, 60 places – Social Work, 60 places – Pedagogy, 60 places – Computer Science, 60 places – Internal Security, 90 places – Finance and Accounting, 90 places – Cosmetology, 60 places – Rural Areas Management. For the 1st year part-time studies: 90 places – Economics, 90 places Horticulture, 60 places – Dietetics, 60 places – Social work, 60 places – Computer Science, 60 places – Internal Security, 90 places – Finance and Accounting, 60 places – Cosmetology, 60 places – Pedagogy, 60 places – Rural Areas Management.
3. The aim of the recruitment procedure is to compile a list of admitted candidates.
4. The recruitment results are announced at all stages of the procedure.
5. If the recruitment procedure consists of several stages, the candidate’s results obtained at individual stages are taken into account in the final result.
6. The winners and finalists of national subject competitions are exempt from the recruitment procedure. The only requirement is the submission of documents certifying the fact of being a winner or finalist, and the remaining documents, specified in paragraph 1, section 4. The details of admitting national subject competition winners and finalists in 2008-2013 were defined by the PWSZ Senate, in the resolution adopted on 2008.
7. The Faculty Candidate Recruitment Commissions make individual protocols according to a model (attachment 1 to Recruitment terms and mode). The protocols are signed by the Commission chairperson and its members.
8. Following the recruitment procedure, the Faculty Recruitment Commissions draw up lists of candidates by the results they have obtained, together with the number of points, and announce them at the PWSZ main building by placing them out on the notice board and on the www.pwsz.skierniewice.pl website.
9. Any alterations made in the documents should be confirmed by the chairperson’s signature.
10. Following recruitment, the Faculty Commissions make the decision who has been admitted within the limit defined in the Senate resolution.
11. The persons who did not qualify due to the lack of places are put on the waiting list. Should any places on the list of the admitted students vacate, the persons from the waiting list will take them, depending on the number of points they scored.
12. The recruitment procedure concerns:
    1. a. candidates who have passed the secondary school final exam (new "matura"); their marks for the written and spoken part are taken into consideration,
    2. b. candidates who have passed the "maturity exam" (old "matura"; their marks for the written and spoken part are taken into consideration.
13. Counting the points during the recruitment procedure, with reference to the candidates who have passed the secondary final exam (new "matura"), on the basis of the marks obtained at the basic and advanced level for the written and spoken part, takes place using the algorithm of one third of the sum: the mark obtained at the basic level and the mark obtained at the advanced level multiplied by two.
14. The final result of the recruitment procedure is calculated on the basis of the secondary school final exam results or the maturity exam results for three subjects of various importance, according to the following rules:
    1. Firstly, the exam results in the following subjects are taken into consideration:
       • Mathematics and the first foreign language (for the candidates for the Economics, Finance and Accounting, Computer Science studies), or
       • Polish and the first foreign language (for the candidates for the Social Work, Pedagogy studies), or
       • Chemistry and Biology (for the candidates for the Horticulture, Cosmetology, Dietetics, Rural Areas Management studies), or
       • Polish, Social Studies and the first foreign language (for the candidates for the Internal Security studies).
       The weight of the exam results in the above subjects is 1; the first foreign language is the one for which the candidate taking exams in two languages has received a better mark.
    2. Secondly, the exam results of the following subjects in the following order are taken into consideration:
       • Geography, History and Social Studies (for the candidates for the Economics, Finance and Accounting studies), or
       • Social Studies, History and Geography (for the candidates for the Social Work, Pedagogy studies), or
       • English (for the candidates for the Horticulture, Cosmetology, Dietetics, Rural Areas Management studies), or
       • History and Entrepreneurship Basics (for the candidates for the Internal Security studies), or
       • Information Technology (or Computer Science), Social Science, History and Geography (for the candidates for the Computer Science studies).
       The weight of the exam results in these subjects is 0,8.
    3. Thirdly, the exam results of the following subjects in the following order are taken into consideration:
       • Entrepreneurship Basics, Physics and Astronomy (or Physics), Chemistry, Information Technology (or Computer Science), the second foreign language and the remaining subjects (for the candidates for the Economics, Finance and Administration studies), or
       • Entrepreneurship Basics, the second foreign language, Physics and Astronomy (or Physics), Chemistry, Information Technology (or Computer Science) and the remaining subjects (for the candidates for the Social Work, Pedagogy studies), or
       • Physics and Astronomy (or Physics), Mathematics, Information Technology (or Computer Science), Entrepreneurship Basics, the second foreign language and the remaining subjects (for the candidates for the Horticulture, Cosmetology, Dietetics, Rural Areas Management studies), or
       • Geography, the second foreign language, Physics and Astronomy (or Physics), Chemistry, information Technology (or Computer Science) and the remaining subjects (for the candidates for the Internal Security studies), or
       • Entrepreneurship Basics, Physics and Astronomy (or Physics), Chemistry, the second foreign language and the remaining subjects (for the candidates for the Computer Science studies).
       The weight of the exam results in these subjects is 0,6; the second foreign language is the one for which the candidate taking exams in two languages has received a weaker mark.
15. The marks for individual subjects taken into consideration in the recruitment procedure are converted into points according to the following scheme:
    1. the exam result percentage is converted into points if the candidate has passed the secondary school final exam (new “matura”); e.g. the result of 36.27% means 36.27 points for the recruitment purposes
    2. the marks are converted into points if the candidate has passed the “maturity” exam (old “matura”) in the following way: mark 2 into 10 points, mark 3 into 30 points, mark 4 into 50 points, mark 5 into 70 points, mark 6 into 90 points.