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{{Infobox university
 | name                   = University of Novi Sad
 | native_name            = Универзитет у Новом Саду<br />Univerzitet u Novom Sadu<br />Újvidéki Egyetem
 | image                  = Univerzitet u Novom Sadu.jpg
 | logo                   = Novi Sad University.svg
 | established            = {{start date and age|1960|06|28}}
 | type                   = [[public university|Public]]
 | rector                 = Prof. Dejan Мadić, Ph.D.
 | budget                 = [[EUR|€]]63.06 million (2020, planned; public funding)<ref name="budget2020">{{cite web |title=ЗАКОН О БУЏЕТУ РЕПУБЛИКЕ СРБИЈЕ ЗА 2020. ГОДИНУ |url=http://www.parlament.gov.rs/upload/archive/files/cir/pdf/zakoni/2019/BUDZET%202020.pdf |website=parlament.gov.rs |publisher=Народна скупштина Републике Србије |access-date=20 February 2020 }}</ref>
 | faculty                = 3,863 (teaching&research staff, academic year 2022/2023)
 | administrative_staff   = 1,269 (academic year 2022/2023)
 | staff                  = 
 | total_staff            = 5,198 (academic year 2022/2023)
 | students               = 48,874 (academic year 2022/2023)
 | address                = Dr. Zorana Djindjica 1, Novi Sad
 | city                   = [[Novi Sad]]
 | country                = Serbia
 | coor                   = {{Coord|45|14|51.459|N|19|51|14.666|E|display=title}}
 | campus                 = [[University campus in Novi Sad|University campus]]
 | affiliations           = 
 | website                = {{url|http://www.uns.ac.rs}}
}}
{{Infobox university ranking
| ARWU_W =901-1000 | ARWU_W_year = 2024 | ARWU_W_ref =<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/institution/university-of-novi-sad | title=ShanghaiRanking-Univiersities |website=shanghairankings.com |access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref>
| QS_W =1001–1200 | QS_W_year =2024 | QS_W_ref =<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-novi-sad | title=University of Novi Sad |website=topuniversities.com |access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref>
| USNWR_W =1181 | USNWR_W_year = 2024 | USNWR_W_ref =<ref>{{cite web |title=University of Novi Sad Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/university-of-novi-sad-529165 |website=usnews.com |access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref>
| QS_EECA =113 | QS_EECA_year =2022 | QS_EECA_ref =<ref name="QS World University Rankings 2022">{{Cite web |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/eeca-rankings/2022 |title=QS World University Rankings-Emerging Europe & Central Asia |access-date=15 January 2023}}</ref>}}

The '''University of Novi Sad''' ({{lang-sr-Cyrl-Latn|Универзитет у Новом Саду|Univerzitet u Novom Sadu}}; {{langx|hu|Újvidéki Egyetem}}) is a [[List of universities in Serbia|public university]] in [[Novi Sad]], [[Serbia]]. Alongside nationally prestigious [[University of Belgrade]], University of Novi Sad is one of the most important educational and research institutions in Serbia and [[South Eastern Europe]] and the [[flagship institution]] of higher education in [[Vojvodina|Vojvodina province]]. 

The University of Novi Sad, with almost 50,000 students and more than 5,000 employees, is one of the largest educational and research centers in Central Europe. It belongs to the group of comprehensive universities, which are characterized by providing nearly all fields of science and higher education. It is composed of 14 faculties and three scientific institutes located in four university cities - [[Novi Sad]], [[Sombor]], [[Subotica]] and [[Zrenjanin]].

==History==
The foundations of higher education in Vojvodina can be traced back to 1740, with the establishment of the ''Collegium Vissariono-Pawlovicsianum Petrovaradinense'' seminary in Novi Sad. In 1778,  the ''Norma'', a school for the education of Serbian teachers, was founded in Sombor and in 1812, the ''Preparandija'', a teacher training college was founded in Szentendre, whose seat was moved to Sombor in 1816. These institutions were important forerunners to the University of Novi Sad.<ref name="history">{{cite web |title=University of Novi Sad History |url=https://www.uns.ac.rs/index.php/en/university/o-univerzitetu-e/history |website=uns.ac.rs |publisher=University of Novi Sad}}</ref>

The seat of [[Matica srpska|Matica Srpska]], the oldest cultural and scientific institution of the Serbian people, was relocated to Novi Sad in 1864. The development of legal sciences and education on the territory of today's Vojvodina was particularly influenced by the Faculty of Law in Subotica, established in 1920.<ref name="history" /> In 1960, the [[National Assembly (Serbia)|National Assembly]] adopted the ''Law on establishment of the University of Novi Sad'', which brought together previously founded faculties into a unique academic community of Novi Sad.<ref name="history" /> The University schools that had previously existed in Novi Sad since 1954, the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Agriculture, Law, Medicine, Technology, Economics, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, were merged into one entity.<ref>{{cite book |title=OTS., Issues 70-56091 |date=1972 |publisher=United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Technical Services |page=298 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fz1OAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA298}}</ref>

==Organization==
===Faculties and Institutes===
The faculties and institutes of the University of Novi Sad are situated in four historic cities of the Autonomous Province of [[Vojvodina]], in the north of the Republic of Serbia. The seat of the university is in Novi Sad, with the central campus situated on the bank of the river Danube, in the vicinity of [[Petrovaradin Fortress]] (built in the 18th century), and the old city center.<ref name="general info">{{cite web |title=Modern University That Consists of Fourteen Faculties in Four Historic Cities of Central Europe |url=https://www.uns.ac.rs/index.php/en/university/o-univerzitetu-e/information |website=uns.ac.rs |publisher=University of Novi Sad}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!#
! Faculty !! Headquarters !! Year of Establishment 
|-
|1
| Faculty of Agriculture || [[Novi Sad]] || style="text-align:right" |1954 
|-
|2
|Faculty of Philosophy || [[Novi Sad]] || style="text-align:right" |1954
|-
|3
| [[University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law|Faculty of Law]] || [[Novi Sad]] || style="text-align:right" |1955 
|-
|4
| Faculty of Technology || [[Novi Sad]] || style="text-align:right" |1959 
|-
|5
| Faculty of Economics || [[Subotica]] || style="text-align:right" |1960 
|-
|6
| [[University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences|Faculty of Technical Sciences]] || [[Novi Sad]] || style="text-align:right" |1960
|-
|7
| Faculty of Medicine || [[Novi Sad]] || style="text-align:right" |1960
|-
|8
| Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics|| [[Novi Sad]] || style="text-align:right" |1969
|-
|9
| Academy of Arts || [[Novi Sad]] || style="text-align:right" |1974
|-
|10
| Faculty of Civil Engineering || [[Subotica]] || style="text-align:right" |1974 
|-
|11
| Technical Faculty Mihajlo Pupin || [[Zrenjanin]] || style="text-align:right" |1974 
|-
|12
| Faculty of Sports and Physical Education || [[Novi Sad]] || style="text-align:right" |1974 
|-
|13
| Faculty of Pedagogy || [[Sombor]] || style="text-align:right" |1993 
|-
|14
| Teachers' Training Faculty {{small|(in Hungarian language)}} || [[Subotica]] || style="text-align:right|2006
|}

<gallery>
Poljoprivredni fakultet Univerziteta u Novom Sadu 01.jpg|Faculty of Agriculture
Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Novom Sadu 04.jpg|Faculty of Philosophy
Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Novom Sadu 01.jpg|[[University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law|Faculty of Law]]
Tehnoloski fakultet.JPG|Faculty of Technology
Ekonomski fakultet Univerziteta u Novom Sadu 01.jpg|Faculty of Economics
Fakultet tehničkih nauka Univerziteta u Novom Sadu 07.jpg|[[University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences|Faculty of Technical Sciences]]
Medicinski fakultet NS.JPG|Faculty of Medicine
Prirodno-matematički fakultet Univerziteta u Novom Sadu 06.jpg|Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Petrovaradin Fortress 8.8.2018 207.jpg|Academy of Arts
Fakultet sporta i fizičkog vaspitanja Univerziteta u Novom Sadu 02.jpg|Faculty of Sports and Physical Education
</gallery>

==Studies==
The University of Novi Sad offers around 320 accredited study programs at the level of Bachelor, Master, Specialist and Doctoral studies, carried out at its faculties and within its University Center for Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies and Research.<ref name="general info" />

About 56% of students at all study levels studies are women.<ref name="201819stats">{{cite web |title=Високо образовање 2018/2019. |url=https://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2019/pdf/G20196011.pdf |access-date=22 December 2019 |website=stat.gov.rs |publisher=Statistical Office of Serbia |language=sr}}</ref>

===Science===
Resulting from a special agreement on cooperation, researchers, professors and students have access to the Matica Srpska Library,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uns.ac.rs/index.php/en/vesti-3/1130-matica-srpska|title = The Exhibition on Matica Srpska |website=uns.ac.rs |publisher=University of Novi Sad}}</ref> the oldest Serbian scientific and cultural institution, founded in 1826, which offers more than three million publications.

The University encompasses around 250 laboratories.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uns.ac.rs/index.php/en/science/scientific-potentials-of-uns/laboratories|title = The list of Laboratories |website=uns.ac.rs |publisher=University of Novi Sad}}</ref> Of special significance to the strengthening of innovation potential is the Science and Technology Park Novi Sad. With the support of the Faculty of Technical Sciences, around 200 start-up and spin-off companies have been founded,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uns.ac.rs/index.php/en/science/transfer/spin |title=University of Novi Sad - Start-up and spin-off companies |website=www.uns.ac.rs |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128145550/http://www.uns.ac.rs/index.php/en/science/transfer/spin |archive-date=2016-01-28}}</ref> mainly in the IT sector, employing young engineers who graduated from the University of Novi Sad.

Researchers from the University of Novi Sad have been the recipients of numerous international and national awards for technical innovations. The BioSense Institute, one of three research institutes, was proclaimed by the European Union as one of the thirty research institutions in Europe with the greatest potential in the field of bio-technologies. Its project ANTARES was the best ranked in Europe in 2016 within the program Horizon 2020.<ref name="general info" />

In 2009, the Faculty of Law won first place in the moot court competition, which was organized by the [[University of Leiden]] at the [[International Court of Justice]] in the Hague. The students from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, which continue the tradition of the famous Yugoslav School of Robotics, have been named among the best in Europe, winning first place at the European Competition in Robotics EUROBOT 2019 and EUROBOT 2022, held in France, as well as second and third place in EUROBOT 2016.<ref name="general info" /> The students of the Academy of Arts and the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education have received numerous awards at national and international competitions.<ref name="general info" />

===Art===

The Academy of Arts Novi Sad was founded in 1974 as one of the University of Novi Sad faculties. 

Along with its educational and scientific activities, the academy is famous for developing international cooperation with numerous cultural, artistic, and academic institutions. The academy's strength is based on its capacity to develop international projects through various programs such as Erasmus +, Creative Europe, and Horizon 2020.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

The Academic Culture and Art Society of the University of Novi Sad "Sonja Marinković" is known for its successful performances at festivals in the country and abroad. Its Accordion Orchestra won the first prize at the World Music Competition in Innsbruck (Austria) in 2013 and is considered to be one of the best in Europe.<ref name="general info" />

==Notable alumni==
* Poets and novelists [[Dragomir Dujmov]], [[Mihajlo Kažić]] and [[Jovan Zivlak]], 
* American Slavist [[Wayles Browne]],
* Bulgarian linguist [[Lyubomir Miletich]], 
* Croatian-American writer [[Josip Novakovich]], 
* Serbian-Canadian mathematician and computer scientist [[Ivan Stojmenovic]].
* Serbian Ambassador to Israel [[Mile Isakov]], and 
* Hungarian politicians in Serbia [[Attila Juhász (born 1967)|Attila Juhász]] and [[István Pásztor (politician)|István Pásztor]].
* [[Bratislav Stankovic]], biologist and lawyer, U.S. patent attorney
* [[Nenad Baroš]], politician
* [[Gojko Palalić]], politician

Among the best-known musicians are:
* pianists [[Rita Kinka]], [[Mladen Čolić]] and [[Ratimir Martinović]], 
* flutist [[Sanja Stijačić]], 
* composer [[Mitar Subotić]],

==Notable people==
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* [[Dorian Leljak]], pianist and university professor

==See also==
* [[Education in Novi Sad]]
* [[Education in Serbia]]
* [[List of universities in Serbia]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{official website|http://www.uns.ac.rs/index.php/en}}

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