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Megatrend University
Мегатренд универзитет Megatrend univerzitet
Logo of the Megatrend University
Type	Private
Established	1989 2000
President	Dominick Salvatore
Rector	Slobodan Pajović
Students	26.000
Location	Belgrade, Serbia
Website	www.megatrend.edu.rs

The Megatrend University (Serbian: Мегатренд универзитет / Megatrend univerzitet) is a private university located in Belgrade, Serbia. Megatrend Business school, which later became Megatrend University, was founded in 1989.

History and profile

Organization

These are the 11 institutions in 6 cities:

Belgrade

Faculty of Business Studies
Faculty of International Economics (previously Faculty of Geo-Economy)
Megatrend Business School
Faculty of culture and media
Faculty of Arts and Design
Faculty of State Administration
The Institute for New Technologies
Megatrend Virtual University
Faculty of Computer Sciences

Bačka Topola

Megatrend School of Agriculture

Požarevac

Faculty for Business Studies

Valjevo

Faculty of Management

Zaječar

Faculty of Management

Notable alumni

Jelena Janković, Tennis player
Marija Šerifović, popular singer, winner of the Eurovision
Nebojša Stefanović, politician, President of the National Assembly of Serbia
Miloš Teodosić, basketball player

Controversy

The university has a relatively low reputation in the eyes of the Serbian public due to its allegedly dubious programs and low standards, as well as due to its perceived mutually beneficial connections with politicians and government officials who were awarded Megatrend diplomas. Those connections have supposedly ensured its accreditation, which helped the University to somewhat silence its critics who have been accusing it of being a diploma mill. According to Megatrend's representatives, such criticism can not apply to a "University where the prime minister of Serbia had given four lectures in one year, and two ministers of education are employed at it".

Megatrend University has awarded an honorary doctorate to Muammar Gaddafi, the former leader of Libya. When asked to comment on this subject, the deputy Minister of education, prof. Srbijanka Turajlić just said that "this is not a deed on which any University should be proud of, but taking into account the quality of the university, it is not surprising that the doctorate was awarded to the dictator".

On June 1, 2014, a group of Serbian academics based in the UK published an article claiming that parts of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia Nebojša Stefanović's doctoral dissertation were plagiarized. The controversy escalated even further when other academics raised serious doubts that Megatrend's rector and Stefanović's mentor Mića Jovanović was never awarded a doctorate himself. Jovanović's alleged mentor Stephen Wood of the University of Leicester denounced him claiming his thesis failed and was not resubmitted.

On June 12, 2014, Serbian Ministry of Education confirmed Megatrend's rector had forged his PhD at LSE. In the wake of these findings, ministry of education called on rector Jovanović to resign. He also called on relevant authorities to determine whether there were elements of criminal offense. Jovanovic resigned the following day. More recently, he declared to have quit Serbia.

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External links

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