UKSW is a public university that offers education in the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences, and, since 2019, medicine.

The university has twelve faculties located in two campuses in Warsaw's Bielany district: on Dewajtis and Wóycickiego Streets.

The university offers forty majors, including medicine, psychology, law, journalism, environmental engineering, Italian philology, and economics.

According to canon law, theological faculties should be created or approved by the Holy See, so the creation of the new university was ill-received by the ecclesial community.

Only since 1960, with the approval of the Holy See, did he respect the academy and consider himself grand chancellor of the university (the ecclesiastical authority and non-academic leader).

The Academy of Catholic Theology was granted full ecclesiastical rights in 1989, henceforth becoming both a state and a church university.

Dewajtis Campus, in addition to teaching rooms, has the Main Library, the radio and television laboratory, the rector's office, and the headquarters of university authorities.

The headquarters of the Faculty of Medicine – Collegium Medicum and Multidisciplinary Research Centre (MCB) in Dziekanowo Leśne[9] are under construction as of 2022[update].

[14] For the same term, Associate Professor Anna Fidelus was re-elected vice-rector for Student Affairs and Teaching in 2020, having held the office 2016–2020.

Associate Professor Marek Stokłosa, who is vice-rector for Research and International Cooperation achieved his Doctor habilitatus in 2016 in the field of canon law.

[14] The Grand Chancellor of the university oversees the church faculties of Theology, Christian Philosophy, Canon Law and Family Studies.