About the department

Teaching of psychology in Serbia has a long tradition, beginning as early as 1854 at the Lyceum, continuing within the Great School, and, since 1905, at the University. A turning point in the development of the discipline was the appointment of Dr. Borislav Stevanović as Assistant Professor and the founding of the Seminar for Experimental Psychology in 1928, which marked the beginning of the Psychology Group.

Today, the Department of Psychology employs 48 teaching staff and more than 40 researchers, with around 650 students enrolled at all levels. It is the leading academic center for the study of psychology in the country, offering a wide range of courses at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral studies, covering all major fields of modern psychology — general and experimental, social, clinical, developmental, and educational psychology, as well as work psychology and methodology of psychological research. In the fourth year of undergraduate studies, students choose one of four modules — Clinical, Developmental and Educational, Work Psychology, or Research Module — according to their professional interests and future career plans.

Psychology has for many years been the most popular study program at the University of Belgrade, in terms of the ratio between applicants and admitted students. Psychology graduates are highly sought after on the job market, from education and clinical practice to human resources, market research, academia, and the non-governmental sector.

Тhе Department of Psychology is the highest-ranked psychology department on the Shanghai list in the region, including all countries of the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece.

There are several research units affiliated with the Department: Institute of Psychology, the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, Laboratory for Developmental Psychology, LIRA Laboratory, Laboratory for Work and Organisational Psychology, and Laboratory for Neurocognition and Applied Cognition. These units are equipped with EEG and eye-tracking systems, BIOPAC equipment for physiological measurements, devices for psychophysical measurements, and virtual-reality simulation systems. This infrastructure, together with training in its use and rigorous methodological instruction already at the undergraduate level, enables researchers and students to master modern techniques and thus become competitive in international academic environments from very early on. On the other hand, the Archive of Psychological Instruments, preserved within the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, provides a unique insight into the historical development of psychology as an empirical science.

The Department also has its own library, staffed by two professional associates, and a reading room for students, further promoting a culture of exchange and collaboration.

In addition to international collaborations established at the university and faculty levels — in which students are encouraged to participate — the Department maintains active bilateral cooperation with: the University of Rijeka, the University of Ulm, the University of Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne), the University of Helsinki, Charles University in Prague, the Rovira i Virgili University, and the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje within the Erasmus+ KA1 program; as well as with the Universities of Zagreb, Graz, Rijeka, Klagenfurt, Ljubljana, Montenegro, Krakow (Jagiellonian University), Sarajevo, Masaryk University, and Novi Sad within the Neuroshare CEEPUS network; and with the Universities of Krakow (Jagiellonian), Osijek, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Prague, Bratislava (Comenius), and Banja Luka within the MOST CEEPUS network. The Department has also signed a special memorandum of bilateral cooperation with Sapienza University of Rome.

Head of Department:
Dr. Oliver Tošković, Associate Professor

Department Coordinator:
Maja Jovanović, Professional Associate