Zadar is an ancient European university city. As early as on 14 June 1396 in Dominican monastery in Zadar the university Studiumgeneral, later called UniversitasJadertina was founded. The University of Zadar is the largest fully integrated university in Croatia.
There is a total of 6000 students enrolled in the undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and doctoral studies. There are 515 employees at the University, 365 of them holding scientific-teaching, teaching and assistant titles.
The University of Zadar, ranked as a mid-sized university in the European environment, in many aspects of the higher education reform and harmonization with the EU member states is a leader in Croatia.
University of Zadar consist of 23 departments with programs whichare organised by three educational divisions:
· Professional Bachelors
· Academic Bachelors and Masters
· PhD programs
Departments are located in 4 campuses. Today New campus consist of one building for departments and teaching and students dormitory but in the future the building of the New campus will further raise the quality of all the activities and the pedagogical standard. In different stages of building the New campus many facilities are predicted, such as the buildings of the university departments, student dormitories and restaurants, laboratory, practicums and the university library. The developmental study of the „New campus“ of the University of Zadar, in the framework of the project New Lighthouses of the Croatian Adriatic, was made by Studio de Architekten Cie. The New campus area is located in the central part of Zadar, between the city boroughs Višnjik and Jazine II.
All Bachelor programmes consist of 180 European credits (ECTS) and on average take three years of full-time study and Master programmes of 120 European credits (ECTS).
