Located at the confluence of the Sava and the Danube rivers and just few hundred kilometers away from Venice, Vienna, Budapest, Ljubljana, Zagreb and Sarajevo, the geographical position of Belgrade is an excellent spot for young people to gain high-quality university education while living in a modern and dynamic European metropolis.
Geographical proximity to prestigious university centers of the neighboring countries has additionally motivated the University of Belgrade to strive for excellence in science and education, which has also been reflected in its constantly improving place at global ranking lists of the world’s best universities.
Since 2012, the University of Belgrade has held high placement at global academic ranking lists, including the possibly most prestigious global ranking list published by Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as Shanghai Ranking. Shanghai Ranking places the University of Belgrade among the three best-ranked universities from East and South-East Europe.
In Serbia, it stands out as the university that educates the highest number of professionals in a wide variety of fields of study, while its international success continuously strengthens its position as the leading higher education institution in the region.
All study programs have been harmonized with the principles of the Bologna Declaration, with the aim to make the University of Belgrade a part of the Common European Education Area with an emphasis on mobility of students and staff.
Foreign students can choose between two possibilities: they can choose one among the 80 study programs in the English language, or they can enroll in intensive Serbian language course at the UB – Faculty of Philology – Center for Serbian as a Foreign Language, and after they successfully complete it, they can choose any study program (from among 480 of them), offered at 31 different faculties of the University of Belgrade.