The Military Academy of the University of Defence is a military service academy of Serbian Army located in Belgrade, Serbia. It is affiliated with the University of Defence. It conducts officer training program for officer cadets of the Army.
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Educational program
The following levels of studies are organized in the Military Academy:
Undergraduate academic studies
Postgraduate specialist studies
Postgraduate master studies
Postgraduate specialisations
The Reserve Officers School
Fundamental, applied and developing research important for raising of quality of degree-granting education, training of scientific and teaching staff and briefing students on scientific work
Undergraduate academic studies
A professional qualification, moral completeness and physical readiness are the basis for successful realization of tasks and command of units in positioned missions and tasks, continual development and improvement of officers.
The aim of the education at the Military Academy is the education of students for the vocation of professional officer, training for initial duties at the level of the commanding officer of platoon and preparations for intellectual and ethical challenges of officer vocation, in accordance with missions and tasks given to the Armed Forces.
There are six programs of studies at the Military Academy:
Defense Management
Military-Electronic Engineering
Military-Mechanical Engineering
Military-Chemical Engineering
Military Aviation
Logistics
The programs include courses that prepare students to serve as officers in the Serbian Army.
After graduation, students become managers (defense managers), mechanical engineers (engineers of military - mechanical engineering), engineers of electrical engineering and computer science (engineers of military - electronic engineering), engineers of technology (engineers of military - chemical engineering) and engineers of traffic and transportation (engineers of military aviation – pilots) by profession. After their graduation from the first degree academic studies, students go into professional military service at the rank of second-lieutenant or they can go on with their education at the master studies organized by the Military Academy.
To these students, alongside attendance of compulsory lectures, it is also possible to acquire internationally accepted certificates: STANAG (knowledge of foreign languages) and ECDL (computer skills).
Master studies
Master studies enable the cadet to expand the knowledge acquired at the graduate academic studies and to acquire the competence in fulfilling higher duties in a branch – service, as well as to perform the job of a graduate manager, i.e. a graduate engineer.
The studies last one year or two semesters during which the cadet obtains 60 ESPB.
After a successful graduation, a cadet is a graduate defense manager or a graduate engineer of a certain profile. Thus, the cadet will have gained all necessary conditions for reaching a better position in a profession and specialized training.
Master studies are carried out through four programs of studies:
Defense Management
Military - Mechanical Engineering
Military - Electronic Engineering
Military - Chemical Engineering
Specialization
After the first degree studies and during the military career, officers can enrol academic and professional postgraduate training.
To officers, chosen by contest, along with parallel work in the units, the specialized training which represents a type of postgraduate education is enabled, and it can be done on specialized, master and doctoral studies.
National Defense School offers command and general-staff officer education for the highest duties in the Military of Serbia and the Ministry of Defense.
The forms of specialised training at the Military Academy are:
General-staff specialised training
Command specialised training
Campus
The campus of the Academy is located at Banjica neighborhood in Belgrade. Besides main lecture buildings and cadet dormitory, on campus-facilities include stadium, indoor swimming pool, indoor athletics hall as well.
In popular culture
The campus of the Military Academy was a center point of the popular television series Military Academy broadcast on Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) from 2012 to 2017, and two movies, Military Academy 2 (2013) and Military Academy 3: New Beginning (2016). It was produced in cooperation with Serbian Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defence.