Editing Łódź (section)

==Education==
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{{Main|Education in Łódź}}
Łódź is a thriving center of academic life. Łódź hosts three major [[Public ownership|state-owned]] universities, six higher education establishments operating for more than a half of the century, and a number of smaller schools of higher education. The tertiary institutions with the most students in Łódź include:

*[[University of Łódź]] (''UŁ'' – {{lang|pl|Uniwersytet Łódzki}})
*[[Lodz University of Technology]] (''PŁ'' – {{lang|pl|Politechnika Łódzka}})
*[[Medical University of Łódź]] ({{lang|pl|Uniwersytet Medyczny w Łodzi}})
*[[National Film School in Łódź]] ({{lang|pl|Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna w Łodzi}})
*[[Academy of Music in Łódź]] ({{lang|pl|Akademia Muzyczna im. Grażyny i Kiejstuta Bacewiczów w Łodzi}})
*[[Academy of Fine Arts In Łódź]] ({{lang|pl|Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Wł. Strzemińskiego w Łodzi}})

In the 2018 general ranking of state-owned tertiary education institutions in Poland, the University of Łódź came 20th (6th place among universities) and Lodz University of Technology 12th (6th place among technical universities). The Medical University of Łódź was ranked 5th among Polish medical universities. Leading courses taught in Łódź include administration (3rd place), law (4th) and biology (4th).

There is also a number of private-owned institutions of higher learning in Łódź. The largest of these are the University of Social Sciences ({{lang|pl|Społeczna Akademia Nauk}}) and the University of Humanities and Economics in Łódź ({{lang|pl|Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi}}). In the 2018 ranking of private universities in Poland the former was ranked 9th, and the latter 23rd.

===National Film School in Łódź===
{{Main|National Film School in Łódź}}

The [[Leon Schiller]] National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź ({{lang|pl|Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna im. Leona Schillera w Łodzi}}) is the most notable academy for future actors, directors, photographers, camera operators and TV staff in Poland. It was founded on 8 March 1948 and was initially planned to be moved to Warsaw as soon as the city was rebuilt following the [[Warsaw Uprising]]. However, in the end the school remained in Łódź and became one of the best-known institutions of higher education in the city.

At the end of the Second World War Łódź was the only large Polish city besides Kraków which war had not destroyed. The creation of the [[National Film School in Łódź|National Film School]] gave Łódź a role of greater importance from a cultural viewpoint, which before the war had belonged exclusively to Warsaw and Kraków. Early students of the School include the directors [[Andrzej Munk]], [[Roman Polanski]], [[Andrzej Wajda]], [[Kazimierz Karabasz]] (one of the founders of the so-called Black Series of Polish Documentary) and [[Janusz Morgenstern]], who at the end of the 1950s became famous as one of the founders of the [[Polish Film School]] of Cinematography.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lodz.naszemiasto.pl/artykul/janusz-morgenstern-rezyser-m-in-stawki-wiekszej-niz-zycie,3181307,art,t,id,tm.html|title=Janusz Morgenstern, reżyser m.in. "Stawki większej niż życie" nie żyje|first=Przemek|last=Dana|date=16 January 2015|access-date=14 February 2018|archive-date=15 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215023331/http://lodz.naszemiasto.pl/artykul/janusz-morgenstern-rezyser-m-in-stawki-wiekszej-niz-zycie,3181307,art,t,id,tm.html|url-status=live}}</ref>