Dear students,

Choosing a call that will essentially determine your professional life and career is certainly neither easy nor easy. Now that you've made a decision, I want to congratulate you on a brave and good choice.

By coming to our joint academic house, new tasks will be set before you and new horizons and new challenges will open up to you. There is almost no country in the world that does not have this or similar faculty. Good governance and management are the prerequisites for organizing and realizing the most important processes in the field of political, cultural, economic and other spheres, which form the basic structure of social life in general. Of course, the sphere of state administration is of particular importance for a country like our Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The transitional path of our country, oriented towards the European Union and membership in other regional and global integration, is accompanied by clear demands for implementing a series of reforms precisely in this sphere. The new administration, in the state context, must become an impartial service of the needs and interests of our citizens. At the same time, the new administration must be a development engine, a proactive, dynamic whole, capable of responding to the challenges of the time in which it operates. The new administration is not the purpose for itself, it is in constant dialogue with the political, economic, international, social and cultural environment. Management means responsibility and honor!

Personnel who take over management tasks and functions must have inviolable ethical capital. The education of such personnel, capable of recognizing the current problems in the environments in which they live and work, ready to accept their solution in a creative and human way, are at the very foundations of the mission and vision of the Faculty of Administration. The realization ofthis mission and vision is a common goal and a joint work of the teaching and other staff of our Faculty and your students. Let this be the guiding principle in our everyday communication, when we progress together and when we solve the problems. And then, when with the diplomas of the bachelor of administration, the magistrate of the administration and, hopefully, the doctor of administrative sciences, you take over your roles in the world of administration and management as soon as possible.

A significant number of our former and current students are already working. Practical work is also included in the Faculty Curriculum and Program as a mandatory and logical way of acquiring knowledge. A partnership has been developed with municipalities, agencies and ministries in which our students conduct one-semester student practice. The aim is to combine theoretical and practical knowledge into a unique whole, and the personnel who leave our Faculty make it recognizable in the labor market.

Strategic, the Faculty of Administration strives to implement the Bologna system. At the same time, in our everyday practice, we strive to use authentic, own experiences and traditions and do the best we can in the existing conditions and with the existing resources.

I sincerely hope that your time spent at the Faculty of Administration will result as the realization of the intentions and wishes you had in mind when you made the decision to join us.

Welcome to the world of knowledge, profession and science!

Welcome to the Faculty of Administration, an associate member of the University of Sarajevo!

Your dean