Education in Łódź
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.