University of Rijeka

The University of Rijeka (Croatian: Sveučilište u Rijeci) is a public university located in the city of Rijeka, Croatia, with faculties in cities throughout the regions of Primorje, Istria and Lika.

The University of Rijeka is composed of eleven faculties, one art academy, two departments, university libraries, and the Student Centre Rijeka (SCRI).

History

While the modern university was founded on May 17, 1973, the first school of higher education had been 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 modern day university was established during 1970's, a decade of exponential rise in number of higher education institutions in the former Yugoslavia when, alongside Rijeka, universities in Osijek, Kragujevac, Split, Mostar, Podgorica, Bitola, Maribor, Banja Luka and Tuzla all opened their doors.

The departments of biotechnology, informatics, mathematics and physics were founded in 2008. In 2022, the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Informatics became faculties in their own right.

In the early afternoon of 18 April 2009, a fire broke out at the construction site of the new building of the Faculty of Engineering in Trsat, the site of former barracks. The fire engulfed three floors, and was most likely started by a welding spark. The Rijeka fire department responded and was quickly joined by first responders from Opatija. All construction workers were successfully evacuated and no injuries were reported. Construction at the site had begun in 2005 and ended costing over 300 million euros.

Administration

The eleven faculties, one academy and two departments include:

Faculties and academies

• Academy of Applied Arts
• Faculty of Civil Engineering
• Faculty of Economics
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Faculty of Philosophy)
• Department of Philosophy Archived 2016-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Maritime Studies
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Teacher Education
• Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management (based in Opatija)

Faculty of Informatics

Since the implementation of the Bologna process in the academic year 2005/06, the Faculty of Informatics offers two undergraduate programmes (three years):

Informatics

Informatics in combination with another subject offered at Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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.

After receiving the B.Sc. degree, the student can apply for the Master's degree in four programmes (two years):

• Information and communication systems,
• Business informatics,
• Informatics education,
• Informatics education in combination with another subject education offered at Faculty of Arts and Sciences

which ends with the title Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Informatics or Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Informatics.

In 2012, University of Rijeka Department of Informatics became Nvidia CUDA Teaching Center.

Faculty of Mathematics

Since the implementation of the Bologna process in the academic year 2005/06, the Faculty of Mathematics offers an undergraduate program (three years) in Mathematics, which finishes with the title Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. Courses include standard topics in mathematical analysis, linear algebra, numerical mathematics, combinatorics graph theory, affine spaces and particularly Euclidean spaces, metric spaces, topology, set theory, geometry, number theory, mathematical logic, probability and statistics, mathematical modelling, programming, algorithms, information systems and computer architecture.

After receiving the B.Sc. degree, the student can apply for the Master's degree in two programmes (two years):

Mathematics education,

Mathematics and Informatics education, together with Department of Informatics.

In 2010, the Department of Mathematics organized a conference on Information Security and Related Combinatorics under the NATO Science for Peace and Security programme.

Student projects

Students at University of Rijeka work on various fields, and majority of projects are founded by Student council of Uniri.

Biggest examples are Onetius, Student Day Festival, Riteh Racing Team, NeuRi and Debate League of Rijeka.

International rankings

The university not ranked by QS, ranking 1066 by USN, and 1329 by CWUR. It is not listed for THE.

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