University of Tirana

Infobox University
name=University of Tirana
native_name=Universiteti i Tiranës


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established=October 1957
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staff=600
rector=Dhori Kule
faculty=
students=14,000
city=Tirana
country=Albania
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affiliations=
website= [http://www.unitir.edu.al www.unitir.edu.al]

University of Tirana ("Universiteti i Tiranës") is located in Tirana, Albania. It was the first university in Albania when it was founded in October 1957 as State University of Tirana ("Universiteti Shtetëror i Tiranës") by joining together five existing institutes of higher education. Between 1985 and 1992 it was called Enver Hoxha University of Tirana ("Universiteti i Tiranës "Enver Hoxha"); after the First Secretary of the Communist Albanian Party of Labour, Enver Hoxha). Initially it comprised ten faculties, but in 1991 it was broken up into the Polytechnic University of Tirana, which was formed of the engineering faculties, and the main University of Tirana which comprised the seven remaining faculties covering humanities, economics, natural science and medicine.

The number of students attending this university is over 14,000 and the number of teaching staff is over 600. The Rector is Dhori Kule (from 2008).

Faculties and departments

*Faculty of Medicine
**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
**Finance-Accounting
**Economics
**Business Administration
**Marketing, Tourism
*Faculty of Foreign Languages
**English
**French
**Italian
**German
**Turkish
**Balkan Languages
*Department of Physical Education

ee also

* List of Albanian Academic Institutions

External links

* [http://www.unitir.edu.al University of Tirana]
** [http://www.fshn.edu.al Faculty of Natural Sciences]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/de/Department Polytechnic University]