Funding literacy checker
These are 2026/27 published facts, not a promise for 2027.
1. You understand tuition exemption applied to public HEIs, not automatically to private ones?
2. If you pick a non-public HEI, you will negotiate fees with that institution?
3. You budget at most 12 stipend months per academic year (up to 5 winter / 7 summer)?
4. Travel money is a one-off lump sum with the first month — not a yearly flight home?
5. You will not treat PLN 2,000–2,500 as covering family housing or every city in Poland?
Budget reading matches the 2026 PDFs
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Funding checklist
Official 2026/27 amounts
Banach
PLN 2,500 / month
Paid max 12 months per academic year (5 winter / 7 summer), from the first month of classes or the preparatory course. On-site Polish language and culture course: first stipend from September 2026. Travel lump sum PLN 2,500 once with the first month. Public HEI tuition and NAWA prep-course fees exempted. Allocation about PLN 6.48 million.
Poland My First Choice
PLN 2,000 / month
Same 12-month / 5+7 structure from the first month of classes. One-off travel lump sum with the first month, tiered by citizenship (PLN 1,000–6,500). Public HEI tuition exempted. Allocation PLN 1,300,000 (about PLN 350,000 for 2026 payments).
My First Choice travel tiers (19/2026)
Payment is through the host HEI (or Banach prep-course unit). This is not a salary and is not family support. City rents in Warsaw or Kraków can exceed a single stipend — budget from study.gov.pl cost-of-living notes, not from blogs.