page_title: University of Banja Luka
section_title: Post-World War II years
hierarchical_section_title: University of Banja Luka / History / Post-World War II years
caption_attribution_description: Српски / srpski: Prirodno-matematički_fakultet (Banja Luka)
context_page_description: The University of Banja Luka is the second-oldest university in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A public university, it is the flagship institution of higher education in Republika Srpska, one of two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2018–19 school year, there are 11,186 enrolled students.
  The university grew out of faculties established in Banja Luka after the end of the World War II either as independent schools or branches of the University of Sarajevo. Due to specific geographical location, linguistic and ethnic proximity and historical links university have close relations with institutions in neighboring countries of former Yugoslavia, especially those in the Republic of Serbia.
  The QS World University Rankings placed the University of Banja Luka in the 251-300 range in the Emerging Europe and Central Asia in 2019. In 2018, Webometrics Ranking of World Universities ranked it as the Bosnia’s second best university among the 59 ranked institutions of tertiary education from the country. In the 2015 fiscal year, the Government of Republika Srpska ensured 34,897,600 BAMs for the university's budget constituting its primary source of funding for standard running costs.
context_section_description: The first Pedagogical School in Banja Luka was established in 1950 when it enrolled its first 38 students. The Faculty of Technical Studies was established in 1961 and the Faculty of Economics in 1969. Subsequently University of Sarajevo faculties of engineering, law and economics opened their local branches in Banja Luka. Over the period of four years each local branch in Banja Luka was transformed into independent faculty in its own right.
caption: Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
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