The University of Niš was founded in 1965 as a state HE institution. It is a medium-sized, mature and well-developed academic community comprising 14 faculties: the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Occupational Safety, Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Physical Culture, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Faculty of Technology and Faculty of Education. The fourteenth - Faculty of Agriculture has recently been founded, and it enrolled the first generation of students in the academic year 2018/2019. Most of those faculties have composite structures, i.e. various departments, divisions or majors, offering wide and diversified study and research opportunities at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including opportunities to obtain a PhD degree.
The University of Niš presently has 24669 students at all levels of studies, 1723 teaching staff and 686 administrative and support staff.
UNI has significant experience in international programs such as Tempus, Erasmus, FP6 and FP7. Within the EM ECW program, the University of Niš entered the exchange of students and teaching staff in 2008 as a partner in Project BASILEUS. In 2011, UNI became a consortium member of Project EM2STEM. The University of Niš also became partner of other Erasmus Mundus programmes, such as SIGMA, ERAWEB, EUROWEB, and GREEN-TECH. Currently, the University is involved in the following programs: ERASMUS+, CEEPUS and HORIZON 2020.
One of the leading principles of the University of Niš is to become part of the European higher education area and to adjust its plans and programs against this aim in the context of reforming the higher education system within the EU academic programs and other programs.
