The University of Maribor is Slovenias second university, established in 1975 in Maribor, Slovenia. It presently has 17 faculties. The universitys roots reach back to 1859, when a theological seminary was established with the encouragement of Maribor bishop and patriot Anton Martin Slomšek. More faculties were established during the late 1950s and early 1960s; the faculties of economics, business, and technology in 1959,
agronomy and
law in 1960, and pedagogy in 1961. The universitys opening ceremony occurred on 19 September 1975. The university has entered the top 1% of institutions in physics and, of the nine institutions entering the top 1% in this field, the University of Maribor did so with the highest number of citations, according to an analysis of data from Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters.
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