International University of Sarajevo

Founded by the Foundation for Education Development Sarajevo, IUS was inaugurated in the academic year of 2004/2005. It is located in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The vision of IUS is to become an internationally recognized institution of higher education and research and a centre of excellence and quality through the shared efforts of the founders, academic and administrative staff, students and all stakeholders.

IUS aims at becoming the major hub in Balkans for bridging the East to the West as a leading international institution of higher education and research centre with comprehensive excellence and quality whose students are lifelong learners, inter-culturally competent and well-developed leaders in socio-economic development of societies.

Aspiration of the International University of Sarajevo is to become widely recognized as the best university in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the region, and a model university for the interweaving of liberal education and fundamental knowledge with practical education and impact on societal and world problems.

To reach this IUS dedicates to:

Focus on strong or potentially strong academic programs that are strategically important to the university and maintain areas of excellence within each of the basic academic groupings,
Build greater connectivity among the academic units by developing new integrations, boundary-crossing structures, and productive synergies.
Increase the size and quality of faculty by enveloping multi-year hiring plans while giving priority to recruiting anchor faculty and new Ph.D.s and “rising stars" for each program and improving faculty retention (competitive hiring, promotion and evaluations). Assure there is no gender bias in the process..
Implement strategically focused, cost-effective enhancements of the infrastructure and better data, criteria, and procedures for evaluating and tracking the quality of research, scholarship, and creativity.
Implement strategically focused changes to improve organizational processes and structures that manage, allocate, and monitor resources important to fulfill the university’s academic mission.
Improve student admission policies to attract larger number of the best and most dedicated students. Assure there is no gender bias in the process.

Mission
The mission of IUS is to produce science, art, and technology and present it to the benefit of humanity; to educate free-thinking, participating, sharing, open-minded individuals who are open to change and improvement and who have the ability to transform knowledge into values of importance for themselves and the community. International University of Sarajevo (IUS), with its identity as an international institution of education and research is cooperating with universities in the region and in other countries in order to provide a peaceful and comfortable atmosphere of learning for students from a wide geography.