Goce Delčev University of Štip

Goce Delchev University - Shtip

Универзитет Гоце Делчев - Штип
Type	Public
Established	27 march 2007
Rector	Professor Sasha Mitrev, PhD
Academic staff	200+
Administrative staff	300+
Students	~16000
Location	Štip,  Macedonia
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	EUA
Website	www.ugd.edu.mk

"Goce Delchev" University – Shtip (Macedonian: Универзитет Гоце Делчев Штип, Univerzitet Goce Delchev Shtip, short name - UGD) is a state university in Macedonia, ranked on the second place from the list of state universities in the country. "Goce Delcev" University – Shtip integrates 13 faculties organized in 3 University campuses. The lectures are realized in education centers that are dispersed in 12 Macedonian cities.

"Goce Delchev" University in Shtip is established by the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia on 27 March 2007. The first Constitutive Assembly of the University Senate was held on 28 June 2007 in the amphitheater of the Faculty of education and the Faculty of mining, geology and polytechnics. In the presence of the State Secretary for education Mr. Pero Stojanovski and some of the members from the home commission of "Goce Delcev" University as well as representatives from students, professors, assistants and citizens from the city of Shtip, the University Senate adopted unanimous decision to appoint Prof. Sasha Mitrev PhD, a full-time Professor at the Faculty of agriculture as Rector of the University, for term of office from June 2007 to June 2011. 1300 students were enrolled on the University in the first academic year. The "Goce Delcev" University started with 7 faculties and one higher school as follows: Faculty of law, Faculty of economics, Faculty of education, Faculty of mining, geology and polytechnics, Faculty of agriculture, Faculty of computer science and information technologies, Faculty of music and Higher medical school. Since the academic year 2008/2009 the University includes 6 (six) new faculties: Faculty of medicine, Faculty of philology, Faculty of electrical engineering, Faculty of mechanical engineering, Faculty of technology and Faculty of tourism and business logistics.

In accordance with the Statute (University’s envoy 09/2009), the University is the highest autonomous public higher-educational, scientific and art institution which provides the unification in the performance and development of the higher education, science, art and proficiency, and directly, through its units, it transfers knowledge from different study fields i.e. from scientific as well as artistic fields and disciplines. Public faculties are part of it i.e. units which execute higher-educational and research work in all the degrees of the higher education.

At the Goce Delcev University in Stip there are specialized studies organized in first, second and third cycle. Units in the composition of the University are:

Beside these units, there are departments, centres, laboratories, libraries and other internal organizational units organized as follows: