Why do an exchange at UGD

Goce Delchev University in Shtip is a state university, ranked in the second place in the rankings of state universities in the country. This University integrates 12 faculties and 3 academies organized in three university campuses.  Over 19.000 students have already identified UGD as an excellent opportunity for their academic development.
UGD as an inspirational educational institution welcomes students that want to achieve a perfect knowledge, expand their cultural and social background and spend an unforgettable time in their student years in the heart of Stip, the center of Eastern Macedonia.
The University is entirely digitized and offers high-quality education. The University has the most up-to-date equipment and modern technology. Thanks to these already mentioned aspects, the University has become a choice of many foreign students, who fulfill their visions in the country.
The study fields of the faculties and academies that UGD offers to the exchange students cover nearly all study areas.  
The incoming students have the opportunity to work in a mentorship with the professors at UGD, a work that allows them to closely approach a certain topic from their chosen courses and gain as much knowledge as possible. Along with the activities of the regular students, incoming students have the extra opportunity to enroll a free not-obligatory course of Macedonian language for students that want to discover the Macedonian language and culture.
Fun activities such as trips around Stip and Macedonia are organized, so the incoming students of all departments can meet; socialize and share their experiences and impressions gained during their Erasmus mobility. 
The departments available at Goce Delcev University are organized in 12 different faculties and 3 artistic academies:

• Faculty of Natural and Technical Sciences
• Faculty of Computer Science
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Faculty of Mechanical
• Faculty of Agriculture
• Faculty of Technology
• Faculty of Medical Sciences
• Faculty of Tourism and Business Logistics
• Faculty of Economics
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Philology
• Faculty of Educational Sciences
• Art Academy
• Music Academy
• Film Academy

Our faculties and academies have over 100 study programs that can be easily matched with the programs of your home University.

Recourses

Goce Delcev University of Stip offers modern forms of learning, new technologies – including interactive boards, graphic boards, contemporary multimedia software and hardware: all of which have the same purpose: to offer the home and foreign students and lecturers to make out the best of their education process and transform the classic classroom into a modern learning environment.
Besides the newest technology integrated here at UGD, there are plenty of other resources that make education both fun and inspiring. The well-equipped library that has both Macedonian and foreign editions, the laboratories that are among the best in Europe and abroad, the University radio and television that constantly inform the students about the newest activities related to the education at UGD and education and science in general, the sports center that offers different kinds of sports training and other activities – all of these centers and appliances make UGD an unique and stimulating institution where the student stands where he belongs: forefront.
Sport center
The University Sports Center develops and promotes the sports activities of the students and employees. Different sports and clubs are available, including basketball clubs, table-tennis, volleyball, and chess. All students that have an affinity towards the sport can realize it through games on tournaments and other competitions on the university level in the Republic of Macedonia.
UGD TV and radio
The University radio and TV are two of the main medias that produce different kinds of programs which have a purpose of informing, educating and entertaining the students and the various public interested in this kind of information. The internal IP TV operates through over 20 TV sets on the premises of the University.

Model courtroom
The Model-Courtroom that was created in order to help the students from the Faculty of Law realize their practice operates through simulation of trials, as well as various training for the judges and other legal professionals. The Model courtroom is one of the most sophisticated premises at the Faculty of Law.
E-Systems
The students of UGD, as well as the international students that spend a semester or a whole year of their studies at UGD,  have all the needed resources for realizing the theoretical and practical part of their studies. The learning process has combined sophisticated technological methods which include the interactive whiteboards, graphic whiteboards, multimedia software and hardware and different audiovisual equipment. 
Agricultural laboratory
Among the other laboratories that operate within the University, the Laboratory within the Department of Plant and Environment Protection at the Faculty of Agriculture performs a variety of laboratory tests, designed to improve the quality and quantity of agricultural production in the country and increase the competitiveness of domestic agricultural production internationally.