Megatrend University

John Naisbitt University

Универзитет Џон Незбит Univerzitet Džon Nezbit
Main building in New Belgrade
Type	Private
Established	1989
President	Dominick Salvatore
Rector	Slobodan Pajović
Administrative staff	500
Students	26.000
Location	Belgrade, Serbia
Website	www.nezbit.edu.rs

The John Naisbitt University (Serbian Cyrillic: Универзитет Џон Незбит) is a private university located in Belgrade, Serbia. Megatrend Business school, which later became Megatrend University, was founded in 1989. In 2015, having in mind recent affairs and controversies risen about the University, Council of Megatrend University had changed name of the institution into "University John Naisbitt".

The very first institute of the university was Belgrade's Megatrend Business School which was established 1989, and later on was the founder of all other institutes which comprise the present Megatrend University.

During 1991, Megatrend Business School, together with the Technical Faculty of Bor carried out the project of management graduate studies introduction. This project which was the first one of this type in South-East Europe, was financially supported by the European Union TEMPUS Fund which was specifically intended for the development of business education. This success has caused further expanding of Megatrend educational network.

In the previous educational system, institutes were missing that could provide the similar kind of knowledge. Most notable is the Faculty of Geo-economy the first institute of this kind in this part of the world.

In June 2000 the Serbian Ministry of Higher Education approved the formation of the Megatrend University of Applied Sciences in Belgrade. Similar agreements were stipulated with "Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli" from Italy, with Berlin University of Applied Sciences from Germany, then, with Yanbian University of Science and Technology from China, Bournemouth University from United Kingdom, Academy Eliteâ from Moscow, European School of Business, Rome, Italy and Faculty of Economics, Donetsk National University, Ukraine.