The University of Montenegro ( cnr, Универзитет Црнe Горe / Univerzitet Crne Gore) is a national

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. Its central administration and majority of constitutive faculties are located in the country's capital Podgorica, with dislocated faculties in

Nikšić Nikšić ( cnr, Никшић, italic=no, sr-cyrl, Никшић, italic=no; ), is the second largest city in Montenegro, with a total population of 56,970 located in the west of the country, in the centre of the spacious Nikšić field at the foot ...

Cetinje Cetinje (, ) is a town in Montenegro. It is the former royal capital (''prijestonica'' / приjестоница) of Montenegro and is the location of several national institutions, including the official residence of the president of Montenegro ...

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Kotor Kotor ( Montenegrin Cyrillic: Котор, ), historically known as Cattaro (from Italian: ), is a coastal town in Montenegro. It is located in a secluded part of the Bay of Kotor. The city has a population of 13,510 and is the administrative ...

. Institution was founded in 1974 and it is currently organized in 19 faculties. Podgorica Law School(1)

History

The University of Montenegro was founded on 29 April 1974 in Titograd,

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(now Podgorica). In that year the following organisations signed the Agreement on Association into the University of Titograd: * three faculties: Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Law from the capital Titograd, * two colleges: Teaching College from Nikšić and Maritime Studies College from Kotor, * three independent scientific institutes: for History, for Agriculture and for Biological and Medical Research, all from Titograd. A year after it was founded, the institution changed its name to Veljko Vlahović University in honour of the communist activist and World War II participant from Montenegro who died that year. 1970's was a decade of exponential rise in number of higher education institutions in the former Yugoslavia when alongside Titograd universities in

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all opened their doors. In 1992, the university was given its current name - University of Montenegro.

Organization

The seat of the university is in Podgorica, the capital city of

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, with a population of around 190,000. Most faculties of the University of Montenegro are located in Podgorica, while some faculties have been opened in

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. The university comprises faculties, institutes and colleges, as well as logistic centers. The Managing Board governs the university and the Rector manages it. The supreme academic body is the University Senate. Deans are heads of faculties and directors are heads of institutes. At faculties i.e. at institutes, the highest academic bodies are councils for teaching-scientific issues, i.e. for teaching-artistic issues. The highest student body is the Student Parliament. Representatives of students are elected in all bodies of the university and of the faculties.

Faculties

The university comprises following 19 faculties in 4 cities: * Podgorica :* Faculty of Architecture :* Faculty of Biotechnology :* Faculty of Civil Engineering :* Faculty of Economics :* Faculty of Electrical Engineering :*

Faculty of Law A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate). In American usage such divisions are generally referred to as colleges ...

:* Faculty of

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, ...

Faculty of Medicine A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, M ...

:* Faculty of Metallurgy and Technology :* Faculty of

Natural Sciences Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeat ...

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Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

:* Faculty of Political Sciences *

:* Faculty of Philosophy :* Faculty of

Philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as ...

:* Faculty for Sport and Physical Education *

:* Faculty of Drama :*

Faculty of Fine Arts In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork ...

:* Music Academy *

:* Faculty of Maritime Studies :* Faculty of

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Within the faculties, there are departments and study groups. The university includes three scientific research institutes: * Institute for History * Institute of Marine Biology * Institute- Center of Excellence in Research and Innovation

Teaching and learning

In 2017, the University of Montenegro reformed the system of studies and adopted the new system of 3+2+3 instead of the previous 3+1+1+3 system. With the accreditation from 2017, 160 study programmes are accredited on all study levels, of which 114 are at bachelor and postgraduate studies, 14 within the applied studies, and 25 doctoral study programmes. Also, eight interdisciplinary study programmes are accredited, of which one is at the doctoral level, while seven exist at the level of postgraduate master studies. All the bachelor study programmes are accredited as three-year study programmes, while having, at the most, two modules in their VI semester. They are organized as either academic or applied studies. Their scope is 180 ECTS. Exempted from this rule are the regulated professions, which have implemented the EU directives about the duration of their bachelor studies, so that bachelor studies in medicine and dentistry last 6 years, while pharmacology and architecture last five years. The postgraduate study programmes are organized after the completion of the bachelor studies and all are accredited as two-year programmes. The scope of the postgraduate studies is 120 ECTS. Doctoral studies are organized after postgraduate studies, and all are accredited as three-year study programmes. The scope of doctoral studies is 180 ECTS.

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