Military Academy in Belgrade
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Logo of Military Academy
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| Motto | Serbian: Част је наша имовина |
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Motto in English
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Honor is our property |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1850 |
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Officer in charge
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prof. dr. major Mladen Vuruna |
| Location |
Belgrade, Serbia 44°46′11″N 20°28′11″E / 44.769832°N 20.469847°ECoordinates: 44°46′11″N 20°28′11″E / 44.769832°N 20.469847°E |
| Colors | Red and Blue |
| Website | Military Academy |
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The Military Academy (Serbian: Војна академија) is a training college devoted to military education and career development in Belgrade, Serbia. The academy forms part of the Serbian higher education system, offering accredited graduate and postgraduate curriculum. It contains a military high school, offering secondary-level education, and a school of national defense, which conducts officer training. The academy's facilities include a sports center with a swimming pool, a stadium with running tracks, modern classrooms for foreign language learning, and lecture theaters.
The following levels of studies are organized in The Military Academy:
Besides above mentioned, in the system of education at the Military Academy, it is also found secondary military education at The Military High School.
A professional qualification, moral completeness and physical readiness are the basis for successful realization of tasks and command of units in positioned missions and tasks, continual development and improvement of officers. An officer is the one whose vocation is commanding. A general aim of education at the general academic studies: The aim of the education at the Military Academy is the education of students for the vocation of professional officer, training for initial duties at the level of commanding officer of platoon and preparations for intellectual and ethical challenges of officer vocation, in accordance with missions and tasks of The Army of Serbia.
There are six programs of studies at the Military Academy:
The programs of studies have many modules which provide students with vast specialist knowledge and necessary skills which an officer of the Army of Serbia has to possess.
After graduation, students become: managers (defense managers), mechanical engineers ( engineers of military - mechanical engineering), engineers of electrical engineering and computer science ( engineers of military - electronic engineering), engineers of technology ( engineers of military - chemical engineering) and engineers of traffic and transportation ( engineers of military aviation – pilots) by profession. After their graduation from the first degree academic studies, students go into a professional military service at the rank of second-lieutenant or they can go on with their education at the master studies organized by the Military Academy.
To these students, alongside attendance of compulsory lectures, it is also enabled to acquire internationally accepted certificates: STANAG (knowledge of foreign languages) and ECDL ( computer skills).
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