University of Banja Luka

The University of Banja Luka was founded in 1975. A public university, it is located in Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The university has 1,000 academic staff and 17,000 students.Banja Luka has 16 faculties:

• Faculty of Agriculture
• Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering
• Faculty of Economics (official website)
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering (official website)
• Faculty of Forestry
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Mine Engineering
• Faculty of Natural sciences and Mathematics (including Chemical engineering, Process engineering and Biotechnology) (official website)
• Faculty of Philology (official website)
• Faculty of Philosophy
• Faculty of Physical Education and Sports
• Faculty of Political Sciences
• As well as an Academy of Arts

The university has two campuses close to the city centre and near the river Vrbas. Accommodation, dining, sporting and computing facilities as well as numerous student clubs  are available at each.Banja Luka has agreements with an extensive range of universities across the world, including Serbia, Japan, Italy and Norway.Notable alumni include: Željka Cvijanović, politician and Prime Minister; Drago Prgomet, physician, university professor and politician; and Željko Kopanja, newspaper editor and director of the newspaper Nezavisne Novine.