Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana

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Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana

Fakulteta za družbene vede, Univerza v Ljubljani
Type	Public
Established	1961
Dean	Iztok Prezelj
Academic staff	115 teaching and 96 research (2020/21)[1]
Location	Ljubljana , Slovenia
Website	Official site

Faculty of Social Sciences (Slovene: Fakulteta za družbene vede; FDV) is one of the faculties, comprising the University of Ljubljana. It is located at Kardeljeva ploščad (Bežigrad District, Ljubljana).

The faculty is "the central Slovenian interdisciplinary, educational, scientific and research institution in the area of social sciences, and ranks among the biggest institutions of its kind in Europe."^[2][3] At the same time, is "one of the largest academic units of the University of Ljubljana with 27 graduate and postgraduate programmes in political science, communication, journalism, and cultural studies.^[4] Currently, it is also the largest public teaching and research institution in Slovenia, devoted to interdisciplinary studies.^[5]

Faculty was established in 1961 as the "College of Political Sciences" (Visoka šola za politične vede, VŠPV), which was in 1968 renamed into the "College of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism" (Visoka šola za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo; VŠSPN). Two years later (in 1970), the college became part of the University of Ljubljana and was reorganized into the "Faculty of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism" (Fakulteta za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo; FSPN). In 1991, the faculty was once more renamed as "Faculty of Social Sciences" (Fakulteta za družbene vede; FDV).^[1]