Sarajevo School of Science and Technology

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The Sarajevo School of Science and Technology was opened in October 2004 in Sarajevo as the first private University in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dedicated to providing high quality, internationally competitive education and up-to-date programs, SSST established collaboration with the University of Buckingham (United Kingdom). Today, the only private University in BiH offers its graduates a dual degree. Further, this collaboration makes SSST subject to meeting national and the University of Buckingham's and UK's academic guidelines and standards of teaching. Through this collaboration, SSST is the only University in the region of South-Eastern Europe monitored by the UK's Quality Assurance Agency, ensuring transparency and the highest standards in teaching and examinations procedures.
To fulfill its mandate for excellence, SSST has put together an internationally educated and ambitious faculty, many of whom come to us from the world's leading universities. The faculty is actively engaged in research projects within their fields, remaining at the forefront of their profession's advances in research and innovative teaching methodology.
At SSST, we believe that a good degree, in any field, must also include a fluent knowledge of at least one foreign language. The University, just like most of the world today, has embraced English as a medium of communication with a full English language curriculum, but also provides additional courses in both English and German, mandatory for all students regardless of their academic field of study. As a result, the quality of writing, speaking, and presentation skills in English that students gain here is exceptionally high. German is a significant addition, given the importance of this language in politics, business, science, and technology. Students are taught in smaller groups and are given materials specific to their future professions. All courses involve the use of contemporary e-learning technologies and web resources.
Our University employs one professor for every four students – the highest ratio in the region and broader – while our academic advising system ensures that professors and teaching assistants are available for daily consultations and are charged with individual monitoring of each student's academic progress.
The SSST curriculum taught entirely in the English language seeks to transfer technical skills and academic knowledge and build confident and globally-minded graduates prepared for the challenging international environment. In addition to their main field of study (primary), all SSST students also choose a minor, allowing specialization within their fields and significantly increasing their competitive edge following graduation.
SSST offers four-year academic programs for all undergraduate studies (240 ETCS credits European Credit Transfer System), except Sarajevo Medical School with a six-year academic program (twelve semesters) and Sarajevo Film Academy, which offers a Bologna certified three-year academic course (BA Degree Programme).
By opening its doors, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology starts a new era in higher education. It opens a new bridge between Europe and the world – the future is here.
What is now the buildings, classrooms, computer laboratories, and offices of the University Sarajevo School of Science and Technology began as a vision of the future where young people are given both the tools and the opportunities to affect change in our society and form a new critical mass of capable and educated future decision-makers. With my many years as senior faculty and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Illinois, and the University of Sarajevo, as well as through my work as part of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency, I have become convinced that the only real long-term contribution that can be made to this country's and this region's future is the one made towards its youth. Young people are our most generous and as yet untapped resources. We came together to re-energize this resource by offering the highest formal education, distinguished by innovation and modernity. That is how the story of SSST began.

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