Academic titles

Qualifications, professional and academic titles

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Graduates are granted the diploma and the professional or academic title determined in accordance with the Professional and Academic Titles Act (Official Gazette, No. 61/06 ).

Typical professional titles of graduates of first cycle study programmes are diplomirani … (UN) and diplomirani (VS). Graduates of the second cycle masters’ study programme shall acquire the professional title magister …, while graduates in technical, teacher training and art studies acquire the title magister inženir …, magister profesor …, magister akademski ….

Graduates of medicine, dental medicine, pharmacy and veterinary medicine acquire professional titles doktor medicine, doktor dentalne medicine, magister farmacije, doktor veterinarske medicine. A completed doctoral study programme results in the diploma and obtained academic title doktor znanosti. All professional and academic titles are published in Official Gazette. Professional and academic titles acquired abroad may be used if the diploma demonstrating the acquirement of the title is recognised in the Republic of Slovenia.