Based on Article 95 of the Law on Higher Education ("Official Gazette of the Zenica-Doboj Canton", No.: 12/22, 15/24-Authentic interpretation and 5/25), the Decision of the Government of the Zenica-Doboj Canton on granting approval to the Plan for Enrolling Students in the First Year of the First Cycle of Studies at the University of Zenica in the Academic Year 2025/2026, No.: 02-34-11865/25 of 13.06.2025 and the Decision of the Senate of the University of Zenica, No.: 01-02-5-2933/25 of 16.06.2025, the Public Institution University of Zenica hereby announces
COMPETITION FOR THE ENROLLMENT OF STUDENTS IN THE FIRST YEAR AND (FIRST) CYCLE OF STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY OF ZENICA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2025 (SECOND REGISTRATION DEADLINE)
The competition for student enrollment in the first year of the first (first) cycle of studies at the University of Zenica in the academic year 2025/2026 (Second enrollment period - remaining vacancies) lasts from August 25 to September 19, 2025.
Candidate ranking and entrance exams at the faculties of the University of Zenica will be held from September 22 to September 26, 2025.
The faculties of the University of Zenica will provide complete information on their bulletin boards and the faculty's website about the place and time of submitting documents, as well as taking entrance exams for the study programs of the faculties of the University of Zenica where entrance exams are scheduled.
Admission of accepted students to the faculties of the University of Zenica will be done according to the faculty plan in accordance with the adopted Plan for Enrolling Students in the First Year of the First (First) Cycle of Studies at the University of Zenica in the Academic Year 2025/2026 - Overview of Available Places.
NOTE: Admitted students who do not enroll within the previously established deadline will be considered to have abandoned enrollment in the study program of the University of Zenica faculty to which they applied.
Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, foreign citizens and stateless persons who have completed a four-year high school in Bosnia and Herzegovina have the right to participate in the Competition, as well as candidates who have completed high school outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and for whom, after the recognition or nostrification procedure, determined that they have completed the appropriate education for continuing education.
Exceptionally, candidates who graduated from secondary school outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina have the right to participate in the Contest even before the process of recognition or certification of the certificate of completed secondary education abroad, with the attachment of appropriate evidence of the initiation of the aforementioned procedures. The aforementioned candidates can enroll after the completion of the recognition procedure, i.e. the certification of completed education abroad, no later than the beginning of the academic year 2025/2026.
The ranking of candidates is carried out by special commissions appointed by the deans of the faculties of the University of Zenica.
The selection of candidates will be made on the basis of the Decision on criteria and criteria for determining the order of admission of candidates for the first year of the first cycle of studies at the University of Zenica, which forms an integral part of this Competition, as well as the individual criteria of the University of Zenica faculty for evaluation of grades from subjects relevant to the respective study and evaluation of the results of the entrance exams at the faculties of the University of Zenica where the entrance exam is scheduled.
The ranking list and the list of admitted candidates will be published by the faculties on the notice board and on the faculty's website, after they have been verified by the competent authorities, for faculties where the entrance exam is scheduled to take place no later than five days after the last day of the entrance exam, and for other faculties no later than five days from the closing date of the Competition.
Candidates who apply for the Competition for enrollment in the first year of the I (first) cycle of studies attach the following documents:
- an application for enrollment in which the study program/department to which he is applying is correctly indicated,
- certificates of completed classes of high school completed in BiH for a four-year period, i.e. appropriate documents on the implementation of the recognition or certification procedure for candidates who completed high school outside of BiH,
- high school diploma,
- birth certificate,
- Certificate of Citizenship,
- other documents relevant for determining the number of points according to the criteria.
Candidates attach the documents listed under point b), c), d), e) and f) in original or certified photocopy (with certification not older than 6 (six) months from the date of publication of the Competition).
Candidates who benefit from the rights under the Law on Supplementary Rights of Defenders and Members of Their Families ("Official Gazette of the Zenica-Doboj Canton", No. 15/24) must, in addition to the previously mentioned documents, also submit the following documentation:
- certified household list,
- income certificates of household members,
- certified copy of identity card,
- confirmation of the status of members of the defense population and their family members.
A defense attorney and a member of his/her family, who is a full-time student, have the right of priority under equal conditions when enrolling in faculties of the University of Zenica, in accordance with Article 22, paragraph (1) of the Law on Supplementary Rights of Defense Attorneys and Members of Their Families ("Official Gazette of Zenica-Doboj Canton", No. 15/24) and the Regulation on Priority in Education of Children of Defense Attorneys ("Official Gazette of Zenica-Doboj Canton", No. 1/25).
For the enrollment of candidates from the categories: children of martyrs, killed, deceased, missing defenders; children of killed, deceased, missing recipients of war recognition or decorations; children of deceased war invalids and deceased demobilized defenders; members of the Roma nationality; persons with disabilities over 70%; persons without parental care who are wards of institutions for the accommodation of children without parental care in the Zenica-Doboj Canton; persons whose parents/guardians are beneficiaries of social assistance, and who have their residence in the Zenica-Doboj Canton, and who apply for full-time studies (financed by the Founder) and pass the entrance exam, or do not achieve the required number of points according to general and special criteria at faculties where an entrance exam is not foreseen, and do not enter the quota foreseen by the Enrollment Plan, the Cantonal Government shall issue a special decision on granting consent to increase the number of students for enrollment. The decision on granting consent to increase the number of students for enrollment shall be issued based on the request of the University of Zenica.
Candidates for enrollment in the first year of the first (first) cycle of studies at the faculties of the University of Zenica in the academic year 2025/2026 shall prove their status as members of the Roma population by submitting one of the following documents showing their membership in the Roma population: school certificate, birth certificate, marriage certificate, voter registration certificate or some other document containing information about their membership in the Roma population.
Candidates for enrollment in the first year of the first (first) cycle of studies at the faculties of the University of Zenica in the academic year 2025/2026 must prove their status as a person with a disability exceeding 70% by submitting a document from a competent medical institution.
After both enrollment deadlines have passed, the competent authorities of the University of Zenica faculty will determine:
- For a study program for which the enrollment quota provides for 31 or more students, classes are held if at least 50% students out of the number provided for by the enrollment quota for that study program are enrolled in that study program.
- For a study program for which the enrollment quota is 30 or fewer students, classes are not held if at least 10 students are enrolled in that study program.
- Exceptionally from the previous point, classes may be held in study programs with fewer than 10 students enrolled, for justified reasons, at the proposal of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, with the consent of the Cantonal Government.
- A reasoned request for teaching in study programs in accordance with the previous point shall be submitted by the Senate of the University of Zenica for approval to the Cantonal Government through the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports.
- The request from the previous point must be submitted no later than September 19, 2025, and can be submitted at most once for the 2025/2026 academic year.
If the study program does not meet the requirements for teaching, the accepted candidates will be offered admission to study programs where there are still available places for enrollment according to the established enrollment plan.
Candidates for enrollment in the first year of the 1st (first) cycle of studies at the University of Zenica submit the documents required by the Competition:
- electronically to the online address: https://unze.ba/upis or
- personally to the faculties of the University of Zenica as follows:
UNIVERSITY OF ZENIKA
OJ FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND NATURAL SCIENCES
72000 ZENICA, street Travnička cesta no. 1.
UNIVERSITY OF ZENIKA
OJ FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
72000 ZENICA, street Fakultetska no. 1.
UNIVERSITY OF ZENIKA
OJ FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY
72000 ZENICA, Street Zmaja od Bosne No. 56.
UNIVERSITY OF ZENIKA
OJ FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
72000 ZENICA, street Fakultetska bb.
UNIVERSITY OF ZENIKA
OJ FACULTY OF LAW
72000 ZENICA, street Fakultetska bb.
UNIVERSITY OF ZENIKA
OJ FACULTY OF MEDICINE
72000 ZENICA, street Travnička cesta no. 1.
UNIVERSITY OF ZENIKA
OJ POLYTECHNIC FACULTY
72000 ZENICA, street Fakultetska no. 1.
UNIVERSITY OF ZENIKA
ISLAMIC FACULTY OF PEDAGOGICS
72000 ZENICA, street Bilmišće bb
PLAN FOR THE ENROLLMENT OF STUDENTS IN THE FIRST YEAR AND THE (FIRST) CYCLE OF STUDIES
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ZENICA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2026
- OVERVIEW OF VACANCIES -
|
Ord. number |
FACULTY |
Number of students | |||
| regular study | extraordinary
study |
EVERYTHING |
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| financed by the Founder | self-financing | ||||
| 1. | FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND NATURAL SCIENCES | ||||
| Study program/Department | |||||
| Metallurgical engineering | 5 | 0 | / | 5 | |
| Materials engineering
– Direction for Metal Materials – Direction for Non-metallic materials |
5 5 |
1 1 |
/
/ |
6 6 |
|
| Chemical engineering | 2 | 1 | / | 3 | |
| Environmental engineering | 5 | 0 | / | 5 | |
| Occupational safety and fire protection engineering | 0 | 4 | / | 4 | |
| TOTAL: | 22 | 7 | / | 29 | |
| 2. | FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING | ||||
| Study program/Department | |||||
| Product engineering design | / | / | / | / | |
| Management of production technologies | / | / | / | / | |
| Engineering ecology | 10 | / | 1 | 11 | |
| Maintenance | 10 | / | 1 | 11 | |
| Engineering and business informatics | 3 | / | 1 | 4 | |
| Mechanical engineering and robotics (three-year study) | 3 | / | / | 3 | |
| Design and technologies in wood processing (three-year study) | 10 | 5 | 1 | 16 | |
| TOTAL: | 36 | 5 | 4 | 45 | |
| 3. | FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY | ||||
| Study program/Department | |||||
| Class | / | 1 | / | 1 | |
| Mathematics and computer science | / | 2 | / | 2 | |
| English language and literature | / | 1 | / | 1 | |
| German language and literature | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| Turkish language and literature | / | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian language and literature | 4 | 2 | / | 6 | |
| Culture and tourism | 1 | / | / | 1 | |
| Physical education and sports | 1 | 1 | / | 2 | |
| TOTAL: | 9 | 11 | 3 | 23 | |
| 4. | FACULTY OF ECONOMICS | ||||
| Study program/Department | |||||
| Management | 1 | 19 | 0 | 20 | |
| Finance and accounting | 6 | 20 | 3 | 29 | |
| TOTAL: | 7 | 39 | 3 | 49 | |
| 5. | FACULTY OF LAW | ||||
| General direction | 19 | 5 | 6 | 30 | |
| TOTAL: | 19 | 5 | 6 | 30 | |
| 6. | FACULTY OF MEDICINE | ||||
| General medicine (integrated I and II study cycle) | / | / | / | / | |
| Health care | / | 15 | / | 15 | |
| TOTAL: | / | 15 | / | 15 | |
| 7. | POLYTECHNIC FACULTY | ||||
| Study program/Department | |||||
| Construction | 2 | / | / | 2 | |
| Manufacturing business | 6 | / | / | 6 | |
| Software engineering | / | / | / | / | |
| TOTAL: | 8 | / | / | 8 | |
| 8. | ISLAMIC FACULTY OF PEDAGOGICS | ||||
| Study program/Department | |||||
| Islamic religious education | 7 | 4 | 3 | 14 | |
| Social pedagogy | 1 | 9 | 7 | 17 | |
| Preschool upbringing and education | 2 | 10 | 6 | 18 | |
| Arabic language and literature | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |
| Inclusive education | 10 | 6 | 9 | 25 | |
| TOTAL: | 25 | 31 | 26 | 82 | |
| TOTAL(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8) | 126 | 113 | 42 |
281 |
|
| TOTAL (regular, regular self-financing and part-time) |
126+113+42=281 |
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The contest was published in Večernji list BH on August 25, 2025
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