Kształcenie kadr w łódzkim szkolnictwie wyższym

The article deals with an analysis of development and changes in the higher education institutions in Łódi in the years 1945-1989. The analysis concerned size, structure of education according to higher education institutions, specializations, and forms of education. The obtained results point at declining enrolment in the higher education in Łódź and in the number of graduates, progressive feminization in the population of students and graduates, and increasingly more unfavourable socio-professional structure of students. On the other hand, a positive phenomenon is a change in the structure of students' education according to faculties finding expression in a bigger number of students studying the humanities in the overall number of students.