Faculties and campus
Where you will study
Faculty of Medicine (Čekaluša 90)
The Faculty of Medicine is the first medical school in Bosnia and Herzegovina and celebrates its 80th year in 2026. It helped to found the other medical faculties of the country. Its building stands on Čekaluša street on the slope above the city centre, about ten minutes on foot from the Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo. More than 9,500 doctors have graduated here.
Preclinical teaching uses the faculty's own departments of anatomy, physiology, pathology, microbiology and pharmacology, a genetics centre and a digital anatomy atlas. Clinical years move to the Koševo clinics. The Faculty was also the first in the country to offer medicine in English, and today the IMDP runs side by side with the local-language programme.
Faculty of Dentistry with Dental Clinical Centre (Bolnička 4a)
Dental education in Sarajevo started in 1960 as a department of the Faculty of Medicine, and it became the first dental faculty in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The building on Bolnička street sits right next to the hospital quarter. Students train in the faculty's own Dental Clinical Centre.
- Clinic for Prosthodontics
- Clinic for Dental Pathology and Endodontics
- Clinic for Oral Medicine and Periodontology
- Clinic for Oral Surgery
- Clinic for Orthodontics
- Clinic for Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry
Faculty of Pharmacy (Zmaja od Bosne 8, Campus)
The Faculty of Pharmacy has trained pharmacists for about five decades. It is based on the University Campus and organises its teaching in ten departments, from pharmaceutical chemistry and drug analysis to toxicology and pharmaceutical biochemistry. The five-year integrated programme is followed by specialisations and a doctorate.
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Zmaja od Bosne 90)
The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine has a history of more than 75 years. It runs a Veterinary Clinical Centre for small and large animals, accredited testing laboratories, a food control centre and the Veterinary Institute at Stup. An anatomical museum belongs to the faculty as well.
Faculty of Health Studies (Sarajevo)
The Faculty of Health Studies trains physiotherapists, nurses, midwives, radiology and laboratory technologists, sanitary engineers and dietitians. Its building was fully reconstructed and newly equipped in a four-year investment project and reopened in February 2025. The seven four-year bachelor programmes are all practice-oriented and closely linked to the clinics of Sarajevo.
Faculty of Electrical Engineering (Zmaja od Bosne bb, Campus)
Founded in 1961, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (ETF) is the oldest and largest school of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has four departments: Automatic Control and Electronics, Power Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics, and Telecommunications. Its laboratory complexes cover electrical machines, high voltage, software development, electronics and telecommunications.
The faculty publishes about 150 scientific papers a year and runs more than 20 research projects. Since 2024 it offers the English-taught bachelor Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, developed with support from Norway and UNDP.
Faculties of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Architecture and Transport
The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering on the campus is the largest engineering faculty after the ETF, with nine bachelor programmes from energy and vehicles to wood technology and defence technologies. The Faculty of Civil Engineering and the Faculty of Architecture share the building at Patriotske lige 30, a few minutes from the campus. Architecture has been taught in Sarajevo since 1949 and runs its own Institute for Architecture, Urbanism and Spatial Planning.
The Faculty of Transport and Communications (Zmaja od Bosne 8) covers road, rail and air transport, postal logistics and communication technologies. It is a Cisco Networking Academy partner.
School of Economics and Business (Trg oslobođenja – Alija Izetbegović 1)
Founded in 1952, the School of Economics and Business (SEBS) is the oldest and largest business school in the country. It holds two international business-school accreditations, one of them for the English bachelor Financial and Marketing Management. The modern building stands on the square next to the Faculty of Law and the National Theatre area, about 15 minutes on foot from Baščaršija.
SEBS has more than 30 exchange partners and runs joint programmes with Griffith College Dublin, the University of Ljubljana and the University of Osijek. Each year about 80 of its students go abroad on exchange.
Faculty of Law and Faculty of Political Science
The Faculty of Law, founded in 1946, stands on the Miljacka embankment at Obala Kulina bana 7, next to the Rectorate. The Faculty of Political Science offers political science, international relations, journalism, sociology, social work and security and peace studies. The Faculty of Criminalistics, Criminology and Security Studies completes this group.
Faculty of Science (Zmaja od Bosne 33–35)
The Faculty of Science became independent from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1960. Its five departments are Biology, Physics, Geography, Chemistry, and Mathematical and Computer Sciences. Computer Science alone admits 85 first-year students.
Faculty of Philosophy (Franje Račkog 1)
The Faculty of Philosophy is the largest humanities faculty in the country, with 14 departments and a chair of art history. Languages are its strength. Students can study English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Turkish and Persian, alongside history, psychology, pedagogy and philosophy.
Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science and Faculty of Forestry
Agriculture and forestry were taught together from 1940 and split into two faculties in 1959. The Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science runs an experimental field and a gene bank at Butmir. Forestry covers forest management and horticulture.
Faculties of Sport, Educational Sciences, Administration and Theology
The Faculty of Sport and Physical Education trains kinesiologists and sport managers. The Faculty of Educational Sciences prepares preschool and primary school teachers and special education professionals. The Faculty of Administration is an associate member of the university. The Faculty of Islamic Studies and the Faculty of Catholic Theology offer theology and religious education, and together with the Orthodox theology faculty in Foča they run a master in interreligious studies.
Academies of Fine Arts, Music and Performing Arts
The Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1972, has worked since 1981 in the former Evangelical church on the Miljacka, a Romanesque-Byzantine building from 1899. The Music Academy at Josipa Štadlera 1 and the Academy of Performing Arts, whose students regularly win awards at regional film festivals, complete the arts group.
Rectorate and University Campus
The Rectorate and the International Relations Office are at Obala Kulina bana 7. The University Campus on Zmaja od Bosne, a former military complex, now holds a dozen faculties, green areas and sports grounds, and the university is building a new University Library there.