After World War II, SGH was nationalized and its name changed to Szkoła Główna Planowania i Statystyki (Main School of Planning and Statistics), abbreviation SGPiS.

SGH Warsaw School of Economics offers courses leading to bachelor's or master's degrees to both full-time and extramural students.

[8] SGH Warsaw School of Economics cooperates with around 200 higher education institutions worldwide within student and staff exchange areas.

SGH Warsaw School of Economics abandoned the traditional departmental structure segregating students based on their major.

The time required for the degree in the given specialization depends mostly on the students themselves due to the free choice of courses (some limitations apply), professors, and the maximum workload per semester.

Significant international cooperation programs include LLP Erasmus, CEMS (The Global Alliance in Management Education), Polish-German Academic Forum at SGH, Partnership in International Management (PIM), as well as double diploma programs (i.e. with Technische Universität Berlin), and other bilateral agreements.

The Library of SGH Warsaw School of Economics is the largest economics library in Poland, with 786,334 volumes of monographs, 216,778 volumes of serials, 983 titles of subscribed periodicals – Polish and foreign, and approximately titles 30,000 foreign journals in electronic form.

The Journal of Public Policy Studies (Polish: Studia z Polityki Publicznej) was founded in 2014 at the Collegium of Socio-Economics of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

The majority of Ministers of Finance in the governments of the III Republic of Poland were SGH alumni, including all from 1988 to 1997.