Belgrade Polytechnic Competitors

The University of Belgrade (Serbian: Универзитет у Београду / Univerzitet u Beogradu) is the oldest and largest university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university. The University has nearly 100,000 students (including around 1,700 postgraduates) and over 4,200 members of teaching staff. The University comprises 31 faculties, 11 research institutes, the university library, and 7 university centres. The faculties are organized into 4 groups: social sciences and humanities, medical sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, and technological sciences. Since its founding, the University has educated more than 330,000 bachelors, around 21,300 magisters, 29,000 specialists and 12,600 doctors

The Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad is a unique complex higher education institution with 6 decades-long tradition and more than 16.000 students. It consists of smaller organizational units such as 13 departments, chairs, research centers, registrar offices, etc. for appropriate scientific fields and laboratories. Faculty of Technical Sciences provides higher education in five areas: - Technical sciences and engineering; - Mathematics and natural sciences; - Arts; - Humanities; - Medical sciences. Today, educational activities are carried out through 90 study programmes organized on three cycle degree studies. First cycle studies are: • undergraduate academic studies, • undergraduate professional studies. Second cycle studies are: • Master academic studies, • Specialist academic studies, • Master professional studies. Third cycle studies are: • Doctoral academic studies.

The University of Pécs, the oldest university in Hungary, was founded in 1367. Today it is one of the largest Institutions of Higher Education in the country and offers a wide spectrum of courses to some 20,000 students in approximately 500 different study programmes. The highly qualified academic staff are a guarantee that students are provided with the most up-to-date knowledge to the highest, internationally recognised standards and so earn a degree which is highly competitive in today’s labour market. The University has conducted degree programmes in English for more than 30 years and so has become one of the most internationalized universities in Hungary. We are proud to host more than 4,500 international students each year – students who come from more than 85 countries worldwide. The university offers more than 50 degree programmes and preparatory courses for international students taught in English and German. The University of Pécs is located in the uniquely beautiful, vibrant and lively city of Pécs – a proper, multi-campus university town – which was designated to be the European Capital of Culture in 2010. The large international student population has become essential part not only the university but of the city’s everyday life as well.