Universiteti i Prishtinës
| Universiteti i Prishtinës | |
Seal of University of Pristina
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1999 |
| Rector | Marjan Dema |
| Students | 41.833 (2009-10) |
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Pristina, Kosovo 42°40′00″N 21°10′00″E / 42.666667°N 21.166667°E |
| Campus | Urban |
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| Website | www |
The University of Pristina (Albanian: Universiteti i Prishtinës) is a public higher education institution located in Pristina, Kosovo. One of the successors of the historical University of Pristina, it comprises 14 faculties located in Pristina and three branches in other cities of Kosovo. Contained within the emblem is a translation of the name into Latin, Universitas Studiorum Prishtiniensis.
The University of Pristina is an Albanian-language higher education institution, emerged after the Kosovo War. It occupies the campus in Pristina, Kosovo, serving as the major university in the area of Kosovo. It is a member of the European University Association. It maintains contacts with Western European and American universities and institutions.
The academic year of the university runs from 1 October through 30 September, organised in two semesters, with 30 weeks of teaching per year.
About 3,000 students receive bachelor or master degrees every year at University of Pristina, the majority in social and human sciences. More than 50,000 have graduated from the university since its establishment.
Unlike most other European universities the university operates as a loose association of faculties, each with a legally autonomous status and administrative structure. This has been criticized by the World Bank as leading to a redundant duplication of programmes and facilities, hindering an effective prioritization of programmes.
The original university was opened in the Socialist Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia, in the city of Pristina, for the academic year 1969–1970 and functioned as the University of Priština until 1999. However, owing to political upheaval there are separate Albanian and Serbian entities:
In 2003 the University in Pristina had been described as being "at the very core of political conflict and the self-esteem of Albanian Kosovars ". It was for many years accused by Serbian politicians and the Serbian media of promoting ethnic Albanian separatism in Kosovo, and following the rise to power of Slobodan Milošević it was purged of those deemed to be separatists. It was at this time that the university faculty split into Serbian and Albanian halves, with the Serbian staff controlling the campus and the sacked Albanian staff gone "underground" for much of the 1990s, providing education informally and in secret for Kosovo Albanian students.
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