Prešeren prize winners of the University of Ljubljana for the year 2016
DEVOTED TO KNOWLEDGE
We see to the quality of research and education, improve the transfer of knowledge into practice, provide creative conditions for work and study, and increase internationalisation.
EDUCATION
In 2016, a total of 17,289 students graduated at the University of Ljubljana, 7,600 more than the year before. The main reason for the rise was a legal provision laying down a deadline for the completion of studies in pre-Bologna programmes.
Prof. Dr. GORAN TURK Vice-Rector for Pedagogical Work
In the 2016/2017 academic year, 36,548 students enrolled in full-time study programmes of all three cycles and 3,562 students enrolled in part-time studies. In total, 40,110 students enrolled in the University of Ljubljana last year, which is 723 students (two percent) less than in the 2015/2016 academic year. Female students account for 60 percent or 23,920 of all students enrolled. Studies at the University of Ljubljana are completed by more than half of undergraduates in Slovenia, more than two thirds of masters of arts and sciences and specialists, and over 80 percent of doctoral students.
The results of the number of students enrolled in 2016/2017 shows that the University is successfully pursuing its strategy to reduce the number of students with the aim to provide studies of higher quality. At the same time, there are also fewer fictitiously enrolled students due to the introduction of a Records and analytical information system for higher education in the Republic of Slovenia (eVŠ) and, therewith, related controls. Furthermore, the drop in the number of students is the result of a demographic decline that is expected to last for another four to five years.
NUMBER OF ENROLLED STUDENTS
Number of students enrolled in all three cycles by academic years
We strengthen international cooperation with an active role in international associations and intensive cooperation with strategic partners. We will strive to increase joint activities with foreign partners and the number of international students enrolled full-time.
Katja Cerar Head of Office for Internationalization
To become a visible leading university in the wider region, the University of Ljubljana enhances its international cooperation by increasing the number of research projects and the related quantity of obtained funds, the number of international students and the number of foreign employees.
The University of Ljubljana has 81 foreign nationals employed full-time, 30 of whom are teachers. Furthermore, 519 foreign professors and associates participated in the study process.
In 2016, most teacher and student exchanges were made in the ERASMUS+ programme with European countries. We successfully continued the exchange programme within the scope of ERASMUS+, also with institutions outside Europe. Under such exchange programmes, 428 University teachers and associates went abroad. Outgoing exchange students totalled 1,518 and 2,049 students came from abroad. The number of students doing practical training abroad also increased. In 2016, there were 587 such students (29 percent more than in 2015).
We continued to strengthen cooperation with partner universities, strategic partners, other institutions and within various networks in which the University of Ljubljana operates. In 2016, we entered into strategic partnerships with three European universities (University of Rijeka, University of Graz and Eötvös Loránd University) and two Chinese universities (Nanjing University and Sichuan University from Chengdu).
Several measures have been taken to improve the provision of information to foreign students, i.e. we renewed the website and publications for international students, collected and published information on University of Ljubljana summer schools and carried out 48 summer school programmes. We attended the EAIE conference in Liverpool, which is focused primarily on the intensive flow of interests and information, and established potential partnerships among higher education institutions. In the frame of Study in Slovenia, the University of Ljubljana presented itself at higher education fairs in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia.
The University of Ljubljana will continue to strengthen international cooperation in education, employee and student exchange and other activities with a visible role in international associations and intensive cooperation with strategic partners. We will strive to increase the scope of mobility of all University stakeholders.
In addition to exchanges in CEEPUS, NFM and Erasmus Mundus programmes, most student and teacher exchanges in 2016 were made in the ERASMUS+ programme with countries in Europe and institutions outside Europe.
Katja Cerjak Assistant Secretary General at the University Office for International Relations
NUMBER OF ENROLLED FOREIGN STUDENTS
Number of enrolled foreign students with respect to all students enrolled in 2016
STUDENT EXCHANGE
The number of all students on exchange in all three cycles by academic years
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