University of Ljubljana
Univerza v Ljubljani | |
Latin: Universitas Labacensis | |
Type | Public |
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Established | 1919 |
Rector | Gregor Majdič |
Administrative staff | cca 3,500 |
Students | 37,615[1] |
Location | , |
Affiliations | Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities Utrecht Network UNICA |
Website | www Building details |
University rankings | |
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Global – Overall | |
ARWU World[2] | 601–700 (2023) |
QS World[3] | 621–630 (2024) |
THE World[4] | 801–1000 (2024) |
USNWR Global[5] | =450 (2023) |
Regional – Overall | |
QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[6] | 33 (2022) |
The University of Ljubljana (
The university was founded in the centre of Ljubljana, where the central university building and the majority of its faculties are located. Since then, newer buildings have been constructed in the suburbs of the city.
History
Beginnings
Although certain academies (notably of
Quest for a national university
During the second half of the 19th century, several political claims for the establishment of a
Nevertheless, unfavorable political circumstances prevented the establishment of the university until the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. With the establishment of the short-lived State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) in 1918, the founding of the university became possible. On November 23, 1918, the first meeting of the Founding Board of Ljubljana University was called, presided over by Mihajlo Rostohar, professor of psychology at the Charles University in Prague. Together with Danilo Majaron, Rostohar convinced the central government of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Belgrade to pass a bill formally establishing the university. The bill was passed on July 2, 1919; in late August, the first professors were appointed, and on September 18, the full professors established the University Council, thus starting the normal functioning of the institution. The first lectures started on December 3 of the same year.
First decades
In 1919, the university comprised five faculties: law, philosophy, technology, theology and medicine. The seat of the university was in the central
In the mid-1920s, the university was renamed the "
After the
1945 and later
Following the end of the Second World War, the first and only foreigner elected to hold the office of chancellor was the Czech professor Alois Král, who had lectured at Faculty of Technical Sciences since 1920 and also held the position of dean thereof four times.[8] After the establishment of Communist Yugoslavia in 1945, the university was again put under political pressure[citation needed]: numerous professors were dismissed[citation needed], some were arrested and tried[citation needed], and the theological faculty was excluded from the university.[citation needed] Some of the most brilliant students emigrated[citation needed]. Nevertheless, the university maintained its educational role and regained a limited degree of autonomy from the mid-1950s onward. It suffered a serious setback in autonomy from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, when some professors were again dismissed by the authorities[citation needed]. In 1979 it was renamed "Edvard Kardelj University in Ljubljana" after the Communist leader. In 1990, with the fall of Yugoslavia, it was regiven its original name.
Organization
Faculties and academies
As of 2018[update], the university has 23 faculties and three academies, situated throughout urban Ljubljana:[9]
- Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television
- Academy of Fine Arts and Design
- Academy of Music
- Faculty of Administration
- Faculty of Architecture
- Faculty of Arts
- Biotechnical Faculty
- Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
- Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy
- Faculty of Computer and Information Science
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Faculty of Social work
- Faculty of Sport
- Faculty of Theology
- Veterinary Faculty
- Faculty of Health Sciences
The university was initially located in the centre of Ljubljana where the central university building and the majority of its faculties are located. Later on, some new, modern buildings and a small scale campus were constructed in other parts of the city (
).Libraries
The University of Ljubljana has two
Another university library is the
Gallery
The university operates an art gallery, open since 18 June 2012.[11]
Academics
The University of Ljubljana practices research in
The University of Ljubljana used to house the permanent seat of the International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS), an international academic group consisting of 10,000 political science graduate and undergraduate students worldwide from 2004 to 2013. In March 2013 the Permanent Seat was relocated to Nijmegen (Netherlands).[12]
The University of Ljubljana was ranked 601-650 in QS World University Rankings 2023.[13]
Prominent faculty and alumni
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian psychoanalytic philosopher, cultural critic, and Hegelian Marxist. He attended Ljubljana and attained a Master of Arts in philosophy in 1975,[14] and is a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana.
See also
- List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)
- Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Jožef Stefan Institute
- Ljubljana Student Organisation
References
- ^ "University of Ljubljana".
- ^ "Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023". shanghairanking.com. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
- ^ "QS World University Rankings: University of Ljubljana". Top Universities. 29 June 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ^ "University of Ljubljana". Times Higher Education (THE). 28 September 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
- ^ U.S. News. "University of Ljubljana". Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ^ "QS World University Rankings-Emerging Europe & Central Asia". Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ^ "University of Ljubljana".
- ^ "The University of Ljubljana and its rectors" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
- ^ "Faculties". University of Ljubljana. 4 March 2018.
- ^ "The Organisation and Activities of the UL Libraries". Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ Beja, Boris (18 June 2012). "Odkritje spomenika Božidarju Jakcu" [The Unveiling of the Monument to Božidar Jakac]. Planet Siol.net (in Slovenian).
- ^ IAPSS
- ^ "University of Ljubljana".
- ^ "Slavoj Zizek: Chronology - His Life".
External links
- (in English and Slovene) Official website