page_title: University of Zagreb
section_title: University
hierarchical_section_title: University of Zagreb / History / University
caption_attribution_description: English: Promotion of new PhDs, University of Zagreb (2015)
context_page_description: The University of Zagreb is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe.
  The history of the University began on September 23, 1669, when the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I issued a decree granting the establishment of the Jesuit Academy of the Royal Free City of Zagreb. The decree was accepted at the Council of the Croatian Kingdom on November 3, 1671. The Academy was run by the Jesuits for more than a century until the order was dissolved by Pope Clement XIV in 1773. In 1776, Empress Maria Theresa issued a decree founding the Royal Academy of Science which succeeded the previous Jesuit Academy. Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer proposed the founding of a University to the Croatian Parliament in 1861. Emperor Franz Joseph signed the decree on the establishment of the University of Zagreb in 1869. The Act of Founding was passed by the Parliament in 1874, and was ratified by the Emperor on January 5, 1874. On October 19, 1874, the Royal University of Franz Joseph I was officially opened.
context_section_description: Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer in 1861 proposed to the Croatian Parliament the founding of a university at Zagreb. During his visit in 1869, the Emperor Franz Joseph signed the decree on the establishment of the University of Zagreb. Five years later, the Parliament passed the Act of Founding, which was ratified by the Emperor on 5 January 1874. On 19 October 1874, a ceremony was held in the name of the founding of the Royal University of Franz Joseph I in Zagreb, making it the third university in the Hungarian realm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  In 1874 the University had four faculties:
  Law (Pravno-državoslovni fakultet)
  Theology (Bogoslovni fakultet)
  Philosophy (Mudroslovni fakultet)
  Medicine (Liječnički fakultet)
  The Faculty of Medicine was not put into function in 1874; it had to wait until 1917. The Faculty of Philosophy served as the general scientific faculty. Since 1876 it had geology, botany, physics, mathematics, and chemistry; since 1877 zoology; since 1882 pharmacy; since 1883 geography.
  In 1860, the Royal Agriculture and Forestry College was founded in Križevci. In 1898, the Academy of Forestry (Šumarska akademija) was founded as part of the Faculty of Philosophy, which encompassed all technical studies. In 1919, this school became the Faculty of Husbandry and Forestry.
  In 1919, the School of Technology (Tehnička visoka škola) was founded, which was transformed into a university faculty in 1926. Also in 1919 the School of Veterinary Medicine (Veterinarska visoka škola) was founded; it transformed into a university faculty in 1925.
  In the Faculty of Philosophy, major reorganization ensued in the 1920s, as mathematics, pharmacy and other sciences started to split off, first with the creation of separate mathematics and pharmaceutical departments in 1928, when the faculty was renamed into its current name Filozofski fakultet.
  In 1926, the university was composed of seven faculties:
  Theology (Bogoslovni fakultet)
  Law (Pravnički fakultet)
  Medicine (Liječnički fakultet)
  Philosophy (Mudroslovni fakultet)
  Philosophy dept. (Filozofski odjel)
  Pharmacy dept. (Farmaceutski odjel)
  Husbandry and Forestry (Gospodarsko-šumarski fakultet)
  Veterinary Medicine (Veterinarski fakultet)
  Technology (Tehnički fakultet)
  Construction dept. (Građevni odsjek)
  Engineering dept. (Strojarski odsjek)
  Chemical engineering dept. (Kemijsko-inženjerski odsjek)
  During the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945), the university was known as the Croatian University (Hrvatsko sveučilište).
  The individual departments of the Faculty of Philosophy became separate faculties in 1942, 1946 when the Faculty of Sciences was formed, and finally in 1963.
  In 1956, the Faculty of Technology was divided into four faculties:
  Architecture-Construction-Geodesy (Arhitektonsko-građevinsko-geodetski fakultet)
  Electrical engineering (Elektrotehnički fakultet)
  Mechanical engineering-Shipbuilding (Strojarsko-brodograđevni fakultet)
  Chemistry-Food technology-Mining (Tehnološki fakultet)
  These eventually split up into the current layout.
  In 1999., the University decided to implement European Credit Transfer System - ECTS. When Croatia signed to be a part of The Bologna declaration, all of the universities in Croatia adopted this system of easily readable and comparable degrees.
  University offers  160 undergraduate programmes (ba/bsc), 22 integrated undergraduate-graduate programmes, 9 vocational undergraduate programmes, 174 graduate programmes (ma/msc), 1 vocational graduate programme, 72 doctoral programmes (PhD) and 165 specialist postgraduate programmes.
caption: Promotion of new PhDs in 2015
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