The Univerza v Ljubljani (University of Ljubljana - UL) is a public autonomous educational, scientific research and artistic institution of higher education with special status and a very rich tradition. It was established in 1919 upon the tradition of semi-university institutions from 17th century. It remained the only Slovenian university until 1975. The university has its seat in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It ranks as a very large university, with more than 63,000 graduate and postgraduate students. Approximately 6000 higher education teachers are employed in 23 faculties and three academies.

University of Ljubljana ranks among the top 500 universities according to the ARWU Shanghai ranking and the British newspaper “The Times” (it is one in the top 3% Universities in the world). According to the Spanish Webometrics, the UL takes 155^th place out of 8,000 World universities, among European Universities UL takes 41^st place and among Central and Eastern European University UL takes the 2^nd place.