Univerzitet u Sarajevu Sveučilište u Sarajevu Универзитет у Сарајеву | |||||||||||||||||
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| Type | Public | ||||||||||||||||
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| Established | 2 December 1949; 75 years ago (1949-12-02) (1537; 488 years ago (1537) as an Islamic madrasa) | ||||||||||||||||
| Endowment | $247.9 million (2020) | ||||||||||||||||
| Budget | $107.8 million (2020)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Rector | Prof. dr. Tarik Zaimović | ||||||||||||||||
Academic staff | 1,636 | ||||||||||||||||
Administrative staff | 990 | ||||||||||||||||
| Students | 23,127(2021)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | , 43°52′N18°25′E / 43.867°N 18.417°E /43.867; 18.417 | ||||||||||||||||
| Campus | Urban | ||||||||||||||||
| Colors | Blue and white | ||||||||||||||||
| Affiliations | European University Association | ||||||||||||||||
| Website | www (in Bosnian and English) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Regional – Overall | |
| QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[3] | 162 (2022) |
TheUniversity of Sarajevo (Bosnian:Univerzitet u Sarajevu;Croatian:Sveučilište u Sarajevu;Serbian:Универзитет у Сарајеву) is apublic university located inSarajevo,Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the largest and oldest university in the country, tracing its initial origins to 1537 as an Islamicmadrasa.[4]
With 20 faculties, three academies and three faculties of theology and with 23,127 enrolled students as of 2021, it ranks among the largest universities in theBalkans in terms of enrollment. Since opening its doors in 1949, a total of 122,000 students have receivedbachelor's degrees, 3,891 have receivedmaster's degrees and 2,284 have receiveddoctorate degrees in 45 different fields.[5] It is now widely regarded as the most prestigious university in Bosnia and Herzegovina,[5] and employs more than one thousand faculty members.[6]
Before the establishment of the modern University of Sarajevo, first schools of higher educations inSarajevo andBosnia and Herzegovina were founded during the 16th century under tutelage of theOttomans. It was inaugurated in Sarajevo in 1537 byGazi Husrev Bey, as anOttoman institute of higher education, amadrasa.[7][8][9]
The university in its modern, secular incarnation was developed during theAustro-Hungarian rule, when many of the institutions of higher education and culture such as theNational Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, still active today, were established.[6] The modern history of the University of Sarajevo continued afterWorld War I, and beforeWorld War II as well as during the war, successfully widening its development with new schools and institutes, such as the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry in 1940 and the Medical Faculty in 1944. The Medical Faculty was re-established in 1946, while theFaculty of Law, the Teacher Training College were opened and, in 1948, the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry was re-established.
In 1949, the Engineering Faculty was opened. On 2 December of that year with the appointment of the first rector, the University of Sarajevo was officially established. With the opening of theFaculty of Humanities (1950) and theFaculty of Economics (1952), the initial phase of the establishment of the Sarajevo University was completed.
The second phase of development (1955–69) was characterized by the affirmation of the university, the opening of new institutions of higher education and the relative satisfaction of the needs for highly educated personnel in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Another significant achievement is the organization and initiation of postgraduate studies at the university.
The third phase (1970–82) was defined by more institutions of higher education being opened at the university, a scientific promotion of the university and its intensified involvement and promotion on the international academic plane. The university contributed directly and indirectly to the establishment of new universities inBanja Luka,Mostar andTuzla.
The fourth phase (1982–92) was characterized by the separation of scientific activities from the university and the formation of favored scientific institutes outside it. This brought considerable damage to the University of Sarajevo, because the coherence of university education and scientific research was endangered. This resulted in a lower quality of education and a technological stagnation of the university. The uncontrolled enrollment of an enormous number of students resulted in a significantly lower efficiency of studies and a hyper-production of personnel in certain areas of education.
The fifth phase (1992–95) was marked by devastation of the facilities and equipment of the university, caused by theBosnian War and thesiege of Sarajevo. Despite all of these difficulties of life and work during the four-year siege, because of the help and the enthusiasm, professionalism, patriotism and perseverance of university teachers and associates as well as the students, the University of Sarajevo managed to retain its continuity of work and life. This was a specific aspect of intellectual academic resistance against everything that is barbaric and uncivilized. It represented the university's contribution to the affirmation of freedom and democracy, the outcry against the war and aggression and the affirmation of the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The University of Sarajevo entered the phase of post-war physical and academic renewal and reconstruction in 1996. The physical renewal is aimed at the reconstruction and the rebuilding of destroyed facilities (through the realization of the New University Campus Project), the replacement of destroyed educational and scientific equipment and the reconstruction of student dormitories. Significant results have been achieved on this plane and the conditions for higher quality studies have been formed in certain areas. However, despite the numerous reconstruction projects the University of Sarajevo still hasn't reached the full prewar potential. The war caused a rift even among the academics and many who worked at the university before the war didn't continue after. The quality of studies is slowly improving, partly because of theBologna Process implementation, but there is still hyper-production in some areas of education since Bosnia and Herzegovina doesn't have a unified program of higher education.
The process of renewal and reconstruction of the university is supported by the activities of theEuropean University Association, theEuropean Council, theEuropean Union as well as a whole line of international organizations and institutions involved in the field of higher education.
The University of Sarajevo enjoys partnerships with over 120 universities in Europe, the US, Canada, and the Middle East.[10][11]
The main objective of all the university's current activities is to raise the quality of studies, to create a contemporary university of European origins, which will be a respectable representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the international level and a promoter of the traditional, historical, cultural, scientific and artistic values of the country, andSoutheastern Europe.
The University comprises 32 faculties, academies and colleges, further subdivided into 6 academic groups, and an additional number of other programs:
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