University of Tirana

University of Tirana
Universiteti i Tiranës
Established	16 September 1957
Type	Public university. Study levels offered: Bachelor, Master, Doctorate
Endowment	Financed by the Government of Albania
Rector	Prof. Dr. Dhori Kule (since 2008)[1]
Academic staff	600
Students	14,000
Location	Tirana, Albania
Campus	urban, decentralized. A new suburban, centralized campus is under construction.
Colors	red and black (the colors of the Albanian flag)
Affiliations	Balkan Universities Network, Erasmus Mundus, UNSHP, UNICA, EUA, AUF, CMU, BSUN, ASECU, IUC. Partner universities with close collaboration: University of Bamberg, Germany, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA[2]
Website	www.unitir.edu.al

Dhori Kule, the current rector of UT

The University of Tirana (UT) (Albanian: Universiteti i Tiranës) is a public university located in Tirana, Albania.

History

UT was founded in 1957 as the State University of Tirana (Universiteti Shtetëror i Tiranës) through the merging of five existing institutes of higher education, the most important of which was the Institute of Sciences, founded in 1947. Between April 13, 1985 and 1992 (during the communist regime), UT was called the Enver Hoxha University of Tirana (Universiteti i Tiranës "Enver Hoxha") after the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, who died on April 11, 1985.

Academics and size

UT is the largest and highest ranking university in Albania.^[3] It includes eight colleges, 50 academic departments, and 41 study programs or majors. Most programs are offered in Tirana; a few smaller affiliated campuses are located in other Albanian cities, including Saranda in the South and Kukës in the North.

UT offers three-year Bachelor, one or two year Master, and three to five year Doctorate degree programs, in accordance with the Bologna system.

More than 14,000 students attend UT. UT employs more that 600 faculty members.

The current campus is urban and decentralized. A new large and centralized campus has been planned in the southeast periphery of Tirana.^[4] Students dorms are grouped in a separate location called Student City (Qyteti Studenti) in southeast Tirana.^[5]

Faculties and departments

• Faculty of Medicine. This faculty, which has more than 5000 students, is UT's most competitive. The faculty has made a motion to separate from UT and form a self-standing medical school.^[6] The faculty includes:
  • General Medicine
  • Dentistry
  • Pharmacy
• Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Philosophy-Sociology
  • Psychology
  • Social security
• Faculty of Natural Sciences
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Biology
  • Informatics
  • Pharmacology
• Faculty of History and Philology
  • History
  • Geography
  • Albanian Linguistics
  • Albanian Literature
  • Journalism
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Economic Sciences
  • Business Informatics
  • Finance-Accounting
  • Economics
  • Business Administration
  • Marketing, Tourism
• Faculty of Foreign Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • German
  • Turkish
  • Russian
  • Balkan Languages
  • Chinese
• Department of Physical Education

See also

• Balkan Universities Network
• List of universities in Albania
• List of colleges and universities
• List of colleges and universities by country

References

External links

• University of Tirana (in Albanian)
• Polytechnic University of Tirana (in Albanian)
• Student City (Qyteti Studenti) (in Albanian)
• University of Tirana news (in Albanian)
• University of Tirana news

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Further reading

Coordinates: 41°19′00″N 19°49′18″E / 41.31667°N 19.82167°E / 41.31667; 19.82167

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