Military Academy Belgrade

The Military Academy of the University of Defence is a military service academy of Serbian Army located in Belgrade, Serbia. It is affiliated with the University of Defence. It conducts officer training program for officer cadets of the Army.

Educational program

The following levels of studies are organized in the Military Academy:

• Undergraduate academic studies
• Postgraduate specialist studies
• Postgraduate master studies
• Postgraduate specialisations
• The Reserve Officers School

Fundamental, applied and developing research important for raising of quality of degree-granting education, training of scientific and teaching staff and briefing students on scientific work

Undergraduate academic studies

A professional qualification, moral completeness and physical readiness are the basis for successful realization of tasks and command of units in positioned missions and tasks, continual development and improvement of officers.

The aim of the education at the Military Academy is the education of students for the vocation of professional officer, training for initial duties at the level of the commanding officer of platoon and preparations for intellectual and ethical challenges of officer vocation, in accordance with missions and tasks given to the Armed Forces.

There are six programs of studies at the Military Academy:

• Defense Management
• Military-Electronic Engineering
• Military-Mechanical Engineering
• Military-Chemical Engineering
• Military Aviation
• Logistics

The programs include courses that prepare students to serve as officers in the Serbian Army.

After graduation, students become managers (defense managers), mechanical engineers (engineers of military - mechanical engineering), engineers of electrical engineering and computer science (engineers of military - electronic engineering), engineers of technology (engineers of military - chemical engineering) and engineers of traffic and transportation (engineers of military aviation – pilots) by profession. After their graduation from the first degree academic studies, students go into professional military service at the rank of second-lieutenant or they can go on with their education at the master studies organized by the Military Academy.

To these students, alongside attendance of compulsory lectures, it is also possible to acquire internationally accepted certificates: STANAG (knowledge of foreign languages) and ECDL (computer skills).

The teaching process at the Military Academy consists of active classes (lectures, exercises, and other forms of teaching) and special forms of teaching (such as camps, military training, training in winter conditions – skiing, training for steering a motor vehicle, flight training, and embarking on the ships of river units). The teaching process is organized by the teachers from the Military Academy, as well as professors from other faculties, associates from scientific institutions, the Ministry of Defense and the general staff of the Armed Forces. Emphasis is placed on the practical implementation of knowledge and skills which students acquire through lectures and exercises.

Campus

The campus of the Academy is located at Banjica neighborhood in Belgrade. Besides main lecture buildings and cadet dormitory, on campus-facilities include stadium, indoor swimming pool, indoor athletics hall as well.

In popular culture

The campus of the Military Academy was a center point of the popular television series Military Academy broadcast on Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) from 2012 to 2017, and two movies, Military Academy 2 (2013) and Military Academy 3: New Beginning (2016). It was produced in cooperation with Serbian Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defence.

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