Did Subsidy Depend on the Performance of Higher Education Institutions in Poland? Comparative study

Since early 1990s the system of financing higher education institutions in Poland is based on the algorithm which binds the value of subsidy also with the performance. It is basically depended on the number and the structure of the students and scientific staff, but within the past years new factors have been introduced: grants acquisition and internationalization. The goal of the article is to verify to what extent the value of the subsidy depended on the performance of the universities. The test produced the positive outcome for the universities of life sciences and universities of economics, which were outstanding for the statistically significant change of the index.