University of Kragujevac

Infobox University
name=University of Kragujevac
native_name=Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Univerzitet u Kragujevcu


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established=1976
type=Public
staff=1,000
rector=Miloš Đuran
students=14,000
city=Kragujevac
country=Serbia
campus=
affiliations=
website= [http://www.kg.ac.yu/ www.kg.ac.yu/]

The University of Kragujevac (Serbian: Универзитет у Крагујевцу / "Univerzitet u Kragujevcu") is a university located in Kragujevac, Serbia. It was founded in 1976 and is organized in 11 Faculties.

History

The University of Kragujevac was founded on May 21, 1976. This is the same date when Prince Miloš Obrenović, in 1838 set up the "Licej", the first institution of higher education in Serbia. When Belgrade became the capital, most of the ministries moved there along with the "Licej". In 1863 it was renamed into the Great School and in 1905 it eventually became the University of Belgrade.

The University of Kragujevac was established as a result of a formal recognition of the need in the community to provide a scholarly environment for prospective academics and to encourage and support research activities. At its opening the University of Kragujevac incorporated five faculties: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Kraljevo as well as two research institutes: Small Grains Research Institute in Kragujevac and Fruit Research Institute in Čačak.

Today the University of Kragujevac has grown into a modern educational and research center embracing almost all major areas of teaching and research, presently comprising 11 faculties with a student population of 14,000 and an academic staff of 1,000. The faculties are spread over five towns of the Central Serbia region which covers an area populated by 2,500,000 people. The University of Kragujevac offers a wide range of areas of study at the undergraduate and advanced levels. 18,000 students have been graduated from the University, 600 have earned their master’s degree and 300 successfully defended their doctoral dissertations.

Organization

The University of Kragujevac comprises eleven faculties. Six of them are located in Kragujevac and five others in four neighboring towns:

* Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
* Faculty of Economics
* Faculty of Law
* Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
* Faculty of Medicine
* Faculty of Philology and Arts
* Faculty of Agronomy in Čačak
* Technical Faculty in Čačak
* Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Kraljevo
* Teachers’ Training Faculty in Jagodina
* Teachers’ Training Faculty in Užice

External links

* [http://www.kg.ac.yu University of Kragujevac Website] sr icon en icon