Faculty of Economics in Kragujevac

University of Kragujevac
Faculty of Economics

Економски факултет Универзитета у Крагујевцу
Type	Public
Established	1960
Dean	Verica Babić
Location	Kragujevac , Serbia
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	University of Kragujevac
Website	www.ekfak.kg.ac.rs

The Faculty of Economics at the University of Kragujevac is an educational and scientific institution located in the city of Kragujevac. It was established as Department of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics in 1960. It became independent higher education institution in 1975. In 2009 Faculty of Economics became fully accredited higher education institution. Accredited are all three levels of studies: undergraduate, graduate and PhD.

The Faculty employs about 80 teachers and associates. Up to now, around 7.000 students have graduated from the Faculty; about 150 have continued their studies successfully advancing to the MSc degree and about 40 acquired the PhD degree.

Degree Programs

Undergraduate program

The curriculum of undergraduate studies at the Faculty comprises six courses:

• General Economics,
• Finance, Financial markets and Banking,
• Accounting and Corporate Finance,
• Marketing,
• Management,
• Tourism and Hotel Industry Management.

For the admission on undergraduate studies can apply students that have successfully finished four year middle or high school. Prospective candidates for admission then have to pass admissions exams in 2 subjects of their choice. Candidates can choose among following eight subjects: General economics, Business economics, National economics, Statistics, Accounting, Philosophy, Sociology and Mathematics.

Graduate program

The curriculum of graduate studies at the Faculty comprises seven courses:

• General Economics,
• Finance, Financial markets and Banking,
• Accounting and Corporate Finance,
• Marketing,
• International Management,
• Tourism management,
• Electronic Business.

For the admission on graduate studies can apply candidates that have successfully finished undergraduate studies and acquired at least 240 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) points. Candidates that have graduated from economics, business or management faculties (colleges) are ranked only according to their success on undergraduate studies. Candidates that have graduate from other faculties have to pass two admission exams and are ranked according to their success on undergraduate studies and admission exam. Admissions exams that they have to pass depend on the graduate program they are interested in.

PhD Program

The curriculum of PhD studies at the Faculty comprises three courses:

• Macroeconomics,
• Business Management,
• Accounting and Business Finance.

Cooperation

The Faculty has a highly developed co-operation with a large number of foreign universities and institutes. Among these institutions most notable are:

• University of Udine - Italy,
• University of Maribor - Slovenia,
• Cracow University of Economics - Poland,
• University for Information Technology and Management, Rzeszow - Poland,
• Modrzewski Krakow University College, Cracow - Poland,
• Comenius University from Bratislava – Slovakia,
• University of National and World Economy in Sophia - Bulgaria,
• University of Macedonia, Thesaloniki – Greece.

Numerous Faculty teachers and associates are engaged by domestic institutes, faculties, consultant companies, and other clients, so contributing to their reputation and strengthening professional basis of the work they perform. Moreover, some of our professors are individually involved in important international projects confirming their personal reputation as well as that of the whole Faculty.

TEMPUS

Important incentive to economic studies in Serbia reorganization was given by two TEMPUS Projects, both of which were led by Faculty of Economics of University of Kragujevac. First TEMPUS was focused on reorganization of study of economics in Serbia, and second TEMPUS was focused on graduate studies in Serbia reorganization.

Sport

Futsal club “Ekonomac” was founded by Professor Veroljub Dugalic, several teaching assistants and a group of Faculty of Economics students on 7 November 2000. Following year, club has brought several new players and advanced to qualifications for Serbian national professional league. In 2004-05 club was third, in 2006-07 second and in 2007-08 first in Serbian national league. In 2008 club also won Balkan Cup.

External links

• Faculty of Economics
• Admission
• University of Kragujevac
• Faculty of Economics Curriculum
• Faculty of Economics on Facebook