University of Tirana

University of Tirana

University of Tirana (Universiteti i Tiran�s) is located in Tirana, Albania. It was the first university in Albania when it was founded in October 1957 as State University of Tirana (Universiteti Shtet�ror i Tiran�s) by joining five higher institutes. Between 1985 and 1991 it was called Enver Hoxha University of Tirana (Universiteti i Tiran�s "Enver Hoxha"; after the dictator Enver Hoxha). Initially it was comprised of ten faculties, but in 1991 it was broken up into the Polytechnic University which was formed of the engineering faculties and the main University of Tirana which comprised the seven remaining faculties covering humanities, economics, natural science and medicine.

The number of students attending this university is over 14,000 and the number of teachers is over 600. The Rector is Shezai Rrokaj (from 2003).

Table of contents

1 List of the faculties and their departments
2 See Also
3 External Links

List of the faculties and their departments

Faculty of Medicine
- General Medicine
- Stomatology
Faculty of Social Sciences
- Philosophy-Sociology
- Psychology
- Social Assistance
Faculty of Natural Sciences
Faculty of History and Philology
- History
- Geography
- Albanian Linguistics
- Albanian Literature
- Journalism
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Economic Sciences
- Finance-Accounting
- Economics
- Business Administration
- Marketing, Tourism
Faculty of Foreign Languages
- English
- French
- Italian
- German
- Balkan Languages
Department of Physical Education

External Links

University of Tirana in 2000

Polytechnic University

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