History
The Faculty of Sport and Physical Education in Nikšic, as a separate unit within the University of Montenegro, was established in 2008. It was created by transforming and merging the three study programmes – Physical Culture, Sports Journalists, and Sports Trainers, which until the transformation had been the units of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Montenegro. A four-year undergraduate degree programme in physical culture was established in 1999 as part of the Faculty of Philosophy in Nikšić.
After the liberation in World War II, the government of Montenegro made a decision (1947/1948) to open the Higher Pedagogical Academy in Cetinje, Montenegro, thus also forming the Department of Physical Education and the Science of Man which offered a two-year undergraduate degree programme. The tradition of this initial degree programme is cherished and maintained by the current Faculty of Sport and Physical Education.
The reformed Department of Physical Culture continued to develop in Nikšić, starting from 1963 first within the Teaching Faculty, and later within the Faculty of Philosophy, until the academic year 2008/2009, when the independent Faculty of Sport and Physical Education was created. The newly-established faculty is based in a building of 2197 m2, containing all facilities necessary for delivering teaching in a modern way following the highest standards. We enroll creative, skillful and healthy young people striving for a complete personal development, following the motto "Health and Knowledge". Physical education and sport represent a scientific area which falls within the scope of the most complex contemporary areas of research at the beginning of the third millennium. These areas of research appear to be complex because they focus their research on human beings - a very complex bio-psycho-social structures, whose physiological processes and psychological functioning modern science has not explored in their entirety. Even though modern science utilizes high technology methods and tools, it is practically still at the beginning of understanding the complex structure called a human being. At our Faculty this particular cause will always be taken into account and will be the subject of our meticulous attention, with the aim of reaching the standards of highly developed countries.
The Faculty is home to the Centre for Diagnostics in Sport, and contains a computer room, sports library, student club, amphitheater, classrooms and modern studios.
Aside from the undergraduate academic study programme, the Faculty also offers postgraduate specialist and postgraduate master studies, as well as doctoral degree programme.