Sveučilište u Zagrebu | |
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| Latin:Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis[1] | |
| Type | Public |
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| Established | 23 September 1669; 356 years ago (23 September 1669) |
| Endowment | 557 millionHRK – 73,57 millionEUR (2019)[2] |
| Budget | 2456.3 millionHRK – 324.5 millionEUR (2019)[2] |
| Rector | Stjepan Lakušić |
Academic staff | 7,963 (2012)[3] |
| Students | 72,480 (2015)[4] |
| Postgraduates | 7243 (2007) |
| 842 (2007) | |
| Location | , 45°48′38.42″N15°58′12.35″E / 45.8106722°N 15.9700972°E /45.8106722; 15.9700972 |
| Campus | City wide, central |
| Colours | |
| Affiliations | European University Association |
| Website | unizg.hr |
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TheUniversity of Zagreb (Croatian:Sveučilište u Zagrebu,Latin:Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is apublicresearch university inZagreb, Croatia. It is the largest Croatian university andone of the oldest continuously operating universities in Europe.[5] The University of Zagreb and theUniversity North are the only public universities operating inNorthern andCentral Croatia.
The history of the University began on 23 September 1669, when theHoly Roman EmperorLeopold I issued a decree granting the establishment of theJesuit Academy of the Royal Free City of Zagreb. The decree was accepted at the Council of theCroatian Kingdom on 3 November 1671. The Academy was run by theJesuits for more than a century until the order was dissolved byPope Clement XIV in 1773. In 1776, EmpressMaria Theresa issued a decree founding theRoyal Academy of Science which succeeded the previous Jesuit Academy. BishopJosip Juraj Strossmayer proposed the founding of a University to theCroatian Parliament in 1861. EmperorFranz Joseph signed the decree on the establishment of the University of Zagreb in 1869. The Act of Founding was passed by the Parliament in 1874, and was ratified by the Emperor on 5 January 1874. On 19 October 1874 theRoyal University of Franz Joseph I was officially opened.
The University is composed of 29 faculties, 3 art academies and 1 university center with more than 70,000 students.
The beginnings of the later university date back to 23 September 1669 when Emperor and KingLeopold I Habsburg issued a decree granting the establishment of theJesuit Academy of the Royal Free City ofZagreb.[6] According to that document the study of philosophy in Zagreb acquired a formal and legal status asNeoacademia Zagrabiensis and officially became a public institution of higher education.
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The academy was run by the Jesuits for more than a century until the order was dissolved by PopeClement XIV in 1773. Under a new leadership in 1772 the academy enrolled a total of 200 students.
In 1776 Empress and QueenMaria Theresa issued a decree founding the Royal Academy of Science (Latin:Regia Scientiarum Academia).[6] It consisted of three studies orfaculties of philosophy, theology, and law. The former political-cameral studies became part of the newly established faculty of law, and thus were integrated into the academy. Each of the faculties of the Royal Academy of Sciences had several chairs teaching one or several courses. During theAustro-Turkish War of 1788–1791 and following the Austrian occupation ofBelgrade on 8 October 1789 the Royal Academy requested to be granted the university status with the following argumentation:
If we consider the current circumstances in which serious consideration is given not only to the removal of obstacles to science, but also to the appointment of our local citizens to all services inthese kingdoms, and if we also consider for a moment future opportunities, not only that the part of Croatia that is still sobbing under the Turkish yoke but also the kingdoms of Bosnia andSerbia – [...] – will be liberated and that these glorious kingdoms will be almost expanded. We believe that it is not only proud and useful, but also absolutely necessary to have in our environment such a university in which – when all obstacles to scientific work are removed and when funds for its development are obtained – number of local youth will be educated in all the sciences and noble skills for performing various services in their homeland.[7]
The academy in Zagreb remained until 1874, despite numerous organizational changes, the focal institution of higher education in Croatia, educating most of the members of the Croatian intelligentsia.
BishopJosip Juraj Strossmayer in 1861 proposed to theCroatian Parliament the founding of a university at Zagreb. During his visit in 1869, the EmperorFranz Joseph signed the decree on the establishment of the University of Zagreb. Five years later, the Parliament passed the Act of Founding, which was ratified by the Emperor on 5 January 1874. On 19 October 1874, a ceremony was held in the name of the founding of theRoyal University of Franz Joseph I in Zagreb,[8] making it the third university in theHungarian realm of theAustro-Hungarian Empire.[9]
In 1874 the University had four faculties:
The Faculty of Medicine was not put into function in 1874; it had to wait until 1917. The Faculty of Philosophy served as the general scientific faculty. Since 1876 it had geology, botany, physics, mathematics, and chemistry; since 1877 zoology; since 1882 pharmacy; since 1883 geography.
In 1860, theRoyal Agriculture and Forestry College was founded inKriževci.[10] In 1898, the Academy of Forestry (Šumarska akademija) was founded as part of the Faculty of Philosophy, which encompassed all technical studies. In 1919, this school became the Faculty of Husbandry and Forestry.
In 1919, the School of Technology (Tehnička visoka škola) was founded, which was transformed into a university faculty in 1926. Also in 1919 the School of Veterinary Medicine (Veterinarska visoka škola) was founded; it transformed into a university faculty in 1925. From 1920 to 1924 shortly existed Faculty of Eastern Orthodox Theology.[11]
In the Faculty of Philosophy, major reorganization ensued in the 1920s, as mathematics, pharmacy and other sciences started to split off, first with the creation of separate mathematics and pharmaceutical departments in 1928, when the faculty was renamed into its current nameFilozofski fakultet.
In 1926, the university was composed of seven faculties:
On 26 August 1936 a group of Macedonian students belonging to theMANAPO signed thePolitical Declaration, an illegal document requesting political and social emancipation ofMacedonians in theKingdom of Yugoslavia.[12]
During theIndependent State of Croatia (1941–1945), the university was known as theCroatian University (Hrvatsko sveučilište).
The individual departments of the Faculty of Philosophy became separate faculties in 1942, 1946 when the Faculty of Sciences was formed, and finally in 1963.
In 1956, the Faculty of Technology was divided into four faculties:
These eventually split up into the current layout.
In 1999., the University decided to implementEuropean Credit Transfer System – ECTS. When Croatia signed to be a part of TheBologna declaration, all of theuniversities in Croatia adopted this system of easily readable and comparable degrees.
University offers 160 undergraduate programmes (ba/bsc), 22 integrated undergraduate-graduate programmes, 9 vocational undergraduate programmes, 174 graduate programmes (ma/msc), 1 vocational graduate programme, 72 doctoral programmes (PhD) and 165 specialist postgraduate programmes.
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Former names | Faculty of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus (FFDI) |
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| Type | Jesuit,Catholic |
| Established | 1662; 363 years ago (1662) |
| Chancellor | Dalibor Renić |
| Dean | Prof. Ivan Koprek |
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| Website | FFRZ |
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Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Sciences (FFRZ) is a part of the University of Zagreb,Croatia It remains a work of theSociety of Jesus and traces its origins to 1662.
FFRZ in Zagreb began as a Jesuit school of philosophy on 6 November 1662 with the establishment of the Philosophy Department at Zagreb College, which would become the University of Zagreb.[13]
TheFaculty of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus (FFDI) closed in 1773 due to the suppression of theSociety of Jesus, and the Jesuit philosophy school in Zagreb did not reopen until 1937, when it offered a three-year course leading to the licentiate in philosophy, as it does today.[14]
On 31 July 1989 the Congregation for Catholic Education of theHoly See decreed that the Faculty of Philosophy could confer thebaccalaureate,licentiate, and doctorate in philosophy.[15]
With a decision of 7 October 1992, the Ministry of Science and Technology entered FFDI into the register as a Scientific Research Organization in philosophy and it became a part of theCroatian Studies Department of the University of Zagreb.
On 8 December 2016, the Senate of the University of Zagreb determined that FFDI would become a faculty and equal component of the University under the title Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Sciences (FFRZ).[16][14]
Undergraduates may major in Philosophy and Religious Sciences, Philosophy, or Philosophy and Latin Language. Graduate students may major in Philosophy or Religious Science. FFRZ also offers post-graduate studies.[17]
FFRZ has a formal relationship withLaudato TV to "work together to promote and implement educational, cultural and scientific activities in the Christian and humanistic atmosphere".[18]
In 2017 there were two current research studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Sciences:
On 5 May 2017 a symposium was held on "Religions and Migration: Displaced Persons and Refugees".[20]
The faculty is led by a chancellor and his deputy along with a dean and vice-dean. The chancellor isArturo Sosa, General Superior of the Society of Jesus based in Rome. His deputy is Dalibor Renić, Provincial Superior of the Croatian Province of the Society of Jesus based in Zagreb. The dean is Prof. Ivan Koprek,[21] The Faculty Council is composed of all regular and extraordinary professors and the Faculty Conference includes all current lecturers, student representatives, and faculty officials.[22]
*Ivančić was elected rector in 2001, but resigned for health reasons before his term started.[23]
Source:List of rectors at the University of Zagreb website
| University rankings | |
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| Global – Overall | |
| ARWU World[24] | 401–500 (2023) |
| QS World[25] | 701-710 (2026) |
| THE World[26] | 1001–1200 (2024) |
| USNWR Global[27] | =517 (2023) |
| Regional – Overall | |
| QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[28] | 47 (2022) |
As of 2020, the university ranked 801–1000 byQS,[29] ranking 575 byUSN,[30] ranking 512 byCWUR,[31] ranked 401–500 byARWU,[32] and 1001+ byTHE.[33]
Since 1874, more than 200,000 students have received a bachelor's degree, more than 18,000 a master's, and more than 8,000 a doctorate from the University of Zagreb.
The University of Zagreb was a co-organiser (with theUniversity of Rijeka) of the2016 European Universities Games.
The university was also awarded byEUSA as the best (2016, 2019, 2023) and the most active European university in sport activities (2019 and 2023).[34]
The Rector's award (Rektorova nagrada) is awarded as part of the University of Zagreb Week (Tjedan Sveučilišta u Zagrebu) in November. The award committee consists of two professors from each of the sevenscientific fields covered by the University.[35]
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