University Of Sarajevo

University of Sarajevo descends from a century long tradition of higher education in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sarajevo . The institutional beginnings of higher education are identical to the university tradition of Western Europe. In 1531 Gazi Husrev-beg established the Hanikah,
a higher school of Sufi philosophy, to which an institution for the study of Islamic Sciences was added in 1537, known as the "Sarajevo Shariah Law School" (Turkish: "Medresset-e-Kulliyet-e-Sheriet-e-Sarajevo" or later commonly referred to as "Jamiet-ush-Shariat-e-Sarajevo"). Here the three disciplines of Classical Catholic Universities were nurtured: theology, law and philosophy and the university also comprised a library. By the end of the 19th century, this institution was the largest institution of learning in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

From the beginning it was on the same level as the Medresa
{Islamic institution of higher education) of Sultan Bajazit in Istanbul, The institution upon which the old Istanbul University is based.

In the Austro-Hungarian period or more precisely in 1887, the Sharia Law School
began to operate as a five-year-long higher school.

The modern history of the Sarajevo University began with the establishment of the first secular institutions of higher education prior to World War II as well as during the war (the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry in 1940, the Medical Faculty in 1944). The Medical Faculty was re-established in 1946, the Faculty of Law, the Teacher Training College were opened and in 1948 the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry was re-established.

In 1955 and then threw 1969 is 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-Herzegovina. Another significant achievement is the organization and initiation of postgraduate studies at the University.

At the beginning of 1996, the University of Sarajevo entered the phase of post-war physical and academic renewal and reconstruction. The physical renewal is aimed at the reconstruction of devastated and the rebuilding of destroyed facilities (through the realisation 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.
The process of renewal and reconstruction of the University is supported by the activities of the European University Association, the European Council, the European Union as well as a whole line of international organisations and institutions involved in the field of higher education.
The University of Sarajevo has partner relations with over fourty Universities in Europe, USA, Canada and the Arab countries.
The main objective of all our current activities is to raise the quality of studies and to create a contemporary university of European provenance which will be a respectable representative of Bosnia-Herzegovina on an international level and a promoter of traditional, historical, cultural, scientific and artistic values of this part of Europe.

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