University of Rijeka
| Sveučilište u Rijeci | |
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| Latin: Universitas studiorum Fluminensis | |
| Type | Public |
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| Established | 17 May 1973 |
| Rector | Prof. Pero Lučin, PhD |
| Students | 20,013 (2011) |
| Location | Rijeka, Croatia |
| Website | uniri.hr |
The University of Rijeka (Croatian: Sveučilište u Rijeci) is in the city of Rijeka with faculties in cities throughout the regions of Primorje, Istria and Lika.
The University of Rijeka is composed of nine faculties, one art academy, four departments, university libraries and the Students Centre.
While the modern university was founded on May 17, 1973, the first school of higher education was established in 1627 by the Jesuits and enjoyed equal status with the academies in the largest cities of the Austrian Empire. The Faculty of Philosophy, established in 1726, operated for two years. The Theological Faculty was founded in 1728. From 1773 to 1780, Rijeka was the seat of the Royal Academy.
The departments of biotechnology, informatics, mathematics and physics were founded in 2008. The last three were part of Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1986.
These are the nine faculties, one academy and four departments into which the University is divided:
On April 1, 2008 University of Rijeka decided to make the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, departments of Informatics, Mathematics and Physics into independent departments.
Since the implementation of the Bologna process in the academic year 2005/06, the Department of Informatics offers two undergraduate programmes (three years):
Students finish with the title Bachelor of Science in Informatics. Both programmes introduce the foundations of programming, algorithms, data structures, digital electronics, computer architecture, computer networks, operating systems, databases, information systems, formal languages and automata theory, software engineering, logic programming, web engineering, multimedia and information theory.
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