Former Universities and Colleges in Poland
- Akademia Zamojska (1594–1784)
- Lubrański Academy (established in 1518)
- Politechnika Lwowska, now Lviv Polytechnic in Ukraine
- Wilno University, now Vilnius University in Lithuania
- Lwów University, now Lviv University
- Wyższa Szkoła Wojenna Academy, 1919, now National Defence University of Warsaw
- Collegium Nobilium (Warsaw) founded in 1740
- Collegium Hosianum founded in 1565
- Corps of Cadets (Warsaw), the first state college in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1765
- Jesuit Collegium in Poznań
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