University of Niš
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| Established | 1965 |
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| Type | Public |
| Rector | Gradimir Milovanović |
| Faculty | 13 |
| Staff | 1,410 |
| Students | 27,000 |
| Location | Niš, Serbia |
| Website | ni.ac.yu/ |
The University of Niš (Serbian: Универзитет у Нишу / Univerzitet u Nišu) is a university located in Niš, Serbia. It was founded in 1965 and is organized in 13 Faculties.
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[edit] History
The University of Niš was incorporated as an independent degree-granting institution on June 15, 1965.
Its establishment rounded off an important, in many ways pioneering, period in the more recent history of the town which started in 1960 when the first undergraduate programs commenced in Niš under the academic patronage of the University of Belgrade. They were institutionalized as the faculties of Law & Economics, Medicine, and Engineering, constituting a core from which a more and more complex and richer physiognomy of the University would systematically develop, following the demands of times and life itself.
The University started its independent life with 234 full-time teaching staff and 6,800 students.
The increase of the student population, the development of new disciplines and the rising needs of the immediate and broader industrial and social environment brought about a reorganization of the existing faculties and foundation of new ones.
Accordingly,
in 1968 the Department of Electronics grew into the Faculty of Electronic Engineering;
in 1970 the two departments of the Faculty of Law and Economics became independent faculties;
in 1971 the Departments of Mechanical and Civil Engineering became separate, independent faculties. In the same year, the Faculty of Philosophy was established with its seven departments: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Sociology, Psychology, English and Physical Education;
in 1972 the Faculty of Occupational Safety grew out of the Faculty of Civil Engineering;
in 1979 the Faculty of Technology was founded;
in 1987 the Faculty of Philosophy grew to include the Department of Serbian Language and Literature;
in 1993 the Teacher-Training Faculty in Vranje enrolled its first generation of students;
in 1995 the Faculty of Civil Engineering expended its academic mission to include a new department - of Architecture which was consequently added to its name;
in 1998 the academic structure of the Faculty of Philosophy widened to include the Department of History. In the same year the Faculty of Fine Art and the Faculty of Applied Art and Design of the Belgrade University of Art opened their academic divisions in Niš;
in 1999 the Faculty of Science and Mathematics and the Faculty of Physical Culture grew out of the Faculty of Philosophy;
in 2000 the University family became richer for six new departments: Geography and Biology with Ecology (adjoined to the Faculty of Science and Mathematics), Philosophy, Pedagogy, Slavic & Balkan Studies and Fine Arts (attached to the Faculty of Philosophy).
2002. The Faculty of Fine Arts is established with three study options - for visual arts, applied arts and music - previously functioning within the Departement of Fine Arts of the Faculty of Philosophy.
[edit] Organization
The beginning of the third millennium finds the University as a medium-sized, mature and well developed academic community comprising thirteen academic units, i. e. faculties:
- Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Electronic Engineering
- Faculty of Fine Arts
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Occupational Safety
- Faculty of Philosophy
- Faculty of Physical Culture
- Faculty of Science and Mathematics
- Faculty of Technology
- Teacher-Training Faculty
Eleven faculties are located in Niš, the Faculty of Technology is in Leskovac and the Teacher-Training Faculty in Vranje.
Most of the mentioned faculties have a composite structure, i. e. various departments, divisions or majors offering wide and diversified study and research opportunities at both the undergraduate and the graduate level, including opportunities to obtain Ph.D. degree.
Over the past 37 years, the University teaching staff has grown to 1,410 and its student body to more than 27,000 including 433 foreign students.
So far, more than 33,900 students have graduated from the University, 1,528 have earned master's degree and 936 have successfully defended their doctoral dissertations.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- University of Niš Website (Serbian) (English)
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Universities in Serbia |  |
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| Public: Belgrade • Kragujevac • Niš • Novi Sad • Prishtina • University of Arts | |||
| Private: BK • Economics Academy • European • Megatrend • Novi Pazar • Singidunum • Union | |||
| Private faculties: Business and law studies • European law and political studies in Novi Sad • Information Technology • Management • Sport and tourism | |||
