The University of Banja Luka, founded on November 7, 1975 and comprising of 17 faculties today, is the leading higher education institution in the Republic of Srpska and the second largest one in the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Since 2007, the University has been integrated, with the faculties functioning as organizational units.
It is managed by the Steering Board, Senate and Rector, who is assisted by the Vice-Rector for education and students’ affairs, Vice-Rector for scientific research and development, Vice-Rector for international and inter-university cooperation, and Vice-Rector for staff and material resources.
At the moment, there are 811 fully employed professors and teaching assistants, 342 professors working part-time, and 175 visiting professors, the administration of the University totaling 559 employees.
So far, the University has produced 31,500 graduates, 700 hundred specialists, 1,150 MA/MSc and 600 PhD degree holders respectively, with 20,000 students currently enrolled at its study programmes.
Most faculties are situated in two separate campus sites near the banks of the River Vrbas, in the vicinity of downtown area. Each campus site is equipped with dormitories with accompanying canteens, sports courts, students’ clubs and University Computer Centre.
The University of Banja Luka disposes of all necessary facilities, from classrooms and amphitheatres, over reading rooms and libraries, to laboratories and computer rooms. The total classroom area is 16,000 m2, while the laboratories take up 10,000 m2. In most classrooms there are computers and over-head projectors, allowing for use of digital contents in class. As far as the computer rooms, there are 20 of them, all providing a 24-hour access to the Internet. In addition, the libraries provide their users with 185,000 titles and are subscribed to 75 journals.
University of Banja Luka is a member of the European University Association – EUA and is a signatory of the Magna Charta Universitatum. The University is a member of the International University Network for Academic and Research Cooperation, under the patronage of the La Sapienza University Science Park, Rome, Italy, the General Assembly of Interuniversity Centre for Research and Cooperation with Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (CIRCEOS), with headquarters at the University of Bari, Italy, UniAdrion universities network with headquarters in Ancona, Italy, EMUNI foundation with headquarters in Slovenia and the Agency for Francophone Universities (AUF).
The Faculty of Law is a modern, well-organized and recognized higher education and scientific institution . Many academics, university professors, well-known and recognized lawyers, judges, prosecutors, politicians, directors of large business companies and other important public figures have been educated in this institution.
There is a large number of law schools in the area. However, our faculty differs from others by the specific education of young people, the criteria that make it evident that the Diploma of the Faculty of Law was gained through extensive learning, innovations in teaching and modernization, in which we have bravely entered in with the wish to make progress and improvements in the process of education.
The Faculty of Law is a place for those who want to learn, but also have fun in the process.
The Faculty of Law is a place where the criteria will always be clearly defined, but also where it is insisted that no one should be damaged.
The Faculty of Law is a place where knowledge is obtained both theoretically and practically.
The Faculty of Law is a place where all those who want to become, first of all, quality people, and then lawyers, can find their place in the sun.
The Faculty of Law is a choice that is available to everyone and the place where all who want to „live honestly, do not offend anyone and give everyone what belongs to them“ are welcome.
Banja Luka, through its history, had a developed legal activity, prominent lawyers and law specialists much before it got a faculty for the study of legal sciences.
After its founding, the Faculty of Law in Banja Luka was inextricably linked to the ideas of justice and freedom, and for the people of Krajina and the Republic of Srpska, it represented and still represents an institution that carries with it an active engagement on the improvement and development of the situation in society.
Rights are not just „theory“. The Faculty of Law is not a place where you just adopt a large amount of data without understanding it.
To engage in legal science is to study the essence of human society, to deal with its behavior and to direct it. It is one of the oldest academic areas in the world, and the subject of its study dates back to 4000 years ago.