To create an integrated university with provided quality in all segments of its functioning, thus having recognizable values in the higher education area in the Republic of Macedonia, placing the student in the focus of the university functioning.
The realization of the mission, more than ever, imposes mobilization of the existing professional staff and another potential, which, through the forms of the university functioning and the bodies and organs of the University, and the everyday commitments, will create conditions for successful development.
The first cycle of studies lasts for three or four years. The students acquire 180 or 240 ECTS credits after they finish their studies. Upon completing the undergraduate studies, the students acquire a Degree for professional studies (for three years' study programs -180 ECTS) or a Degree for academic studies (for three or four years' study program – 180-240 ECTS). The undergraduate academic study programs enable the students to enter the second cycle of university studies. The academic title the graduates acquire upon finishing their studies is a bachelor's. In its separate units, UKLO realizes the following academic and professional studies:
The academic university studies in the second cycle last one or two years. Upon completing these studies, the students acquire 60 or 120 ECTS. These studies can last longer if it is by the internationally accepted standards. The necessary condition for enrolling in the second cycle is completing the first cycle of education. The student who acquired 300 or 360 ECTS is awarded the title master.
The functioning of UKLO is built upon the principle of uniting the two fundamental activities, that of teaching and that of research. The University, respecting the Bologna Declaration and the Declaration of Salamanca principles that refer to the inseparability of science and higher education, introduces and conducts a unique policy of equal treatment of the two activities.
The academic units that represent the structure of UKLO are accredited for executing the scientific and research activities. However, certain social conditions are not always performed with the desired intensity or dynamics due to certain social conditions. Still, there are specific UKLO units that have achieved great success in numerous applicative and developmental research projects in the academic areas of their particular interest.
UK academic staff is continuously involved in great scientific significance projects that represent parts of extensive scientific and research programs that run in the Republic of Macedonia and take an active part in them.
The ever-growing number of doctoral thesis contributes to the intensifying the scientific and research activities and the active inclusion of younger academic staff as potential researchers.
University quality assurance policy is the basis for improving its functioning and development by strengthening the institutional capacity for successful adaptation to the social needs and proactive response to changes.
The quality assurance policy is the continuous building, improvement and spreading and cherishing of quality culture, stimulating and developing of positive values in the realization of the university activities as well as in wider social environment, by an installed system that applies to all institutional structures, policies, processes, internal and external stakeholders.
The quality assurance policy is reflected in the strategic plans and objectives. It is being implemented in various institutional working fields, following the national and international standards and quality directions that need to complement each other.
The main objective of the quality assurance system is to achieve the highest quality level of the higher educational, scientific research, artistic and applicative activities, and professional and administrative work of the University and its units.
The essential prerequisite for fulfilling the system objective is a critical observation of the University's existing conditions and the promotion of quality culture in all of the University's working areas.
The purpose of the University quality assurance system is to establish principles, criteria, procedures, actions, and methods for quality assurance, in line with the national and international legal acts.
The standards and guidelines for quality assurance of higher education, adopted by the European institutions and other organizations and associations, responsible for establishing an application and the guidelines for evaluation of higher education in the European area, are the system's basic principles.
