The University of Zadar was established in 2003 as an integrated higher education institution. Since then, practical experience has shown that this organizational model is very suitable for a university of its size (640 employees and about 5500 undergraduate and graduate students (as of February 2022). At the University of Zadar, bachelor's, master's and postgraduate programmes are offered in 27 departments from seven scientific fields: Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering, Biotechnology, Interdisciplinary Sciences, and Biomedicine and Health.