University of Belgrade - Technical Faculty in Bor

Technical faculty in Bor was established in the year 1961 as the Mining-metallurgical faculty with two departments – Mining and Metallurgy. The faculty belongs to the University of Belgrade, the oldest, the biggest and the most prestigeous state university in Serbia. In 2002 the Faculty opened several new departments – the Department for industrial management, Department for industrial information science and the Department for electro-mechanical engineering. In the year 2007 the enrolments in the Department for electro-mechanical engineering were completely stopped and in the year 2008 in the Department for industrial information science. Faculty building nowadays In the year 2005 the reform of academic education was done in Serbia according to the principles of Bolonia declaration. By new law on academic education, the education load of students is defined as ECTS (European Credits Transfer System) and academic studies were classified into three levels: Basic, Graduate-master and Doctoral. In 2008 the Faculty applied for accreditation for academic study programmes (curriculums):Mining engineering, Metallurgical engineering, Technological engineering and Engineering management. All the curriculums are adjusted with the Bolonia declaration. In 2007 the Faculty was accredited as a scientific-research organisation in the area of technical-technological science. Postgraduate studies have been maintained at this faculty since academic year 1974/75 as specialist, master and doctoral studies. So far 1804 students graduated at this faculty, besides 18 students completed specialist studies, 122 master studies and 70 students defended doctoral theses. At foundation the faculty was located in the building of the mentioned French cassino. After some years several new buildings were cbuilt, thus today the faculty premises have available over 6000 m².