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The Megatrend University (Serbian: Мегатренд универзитет / Megatrend univerzitet) is a private university located in Belgrade, Serbia. Megatrend Business school, which later became Megatrend University, was founded in 1989.〔http://www.megatrend-edu.net/o_univerzitetu.php?bs=o_nama〕 In an opinion piece in Al Jazeera about problems in Serbian higher education, Zorana Suvakovic described Megatrend as "essentially a degree mill where diplomas can be obtained for cash."〔"Serbia's degree mills: A recent scandal over plagiarism involving PhD theses of top politicians has exposed a collapsing education system." Zorana Suvakovic, Al Jazeera: 25 July 2014. ()〕 == History and profile == The very first institute of the university was Belgrade's Megatrend Business School which was established 1989, and later on was the founder of all other institutes which comprise the present ''Megatrend University''. During 1991, Megatrend Business School, together with the Technical Faculty of Bor carried out the project of management graduate studies introduction. This project which was the first one of this type in South-East Europe, was financially supported by the European Union TEMPUS Fund which was specifically intended for the development of business education. This success has caused further expanding of Megatrend educational network. In the previous educational system, institutes were missing that could provide the similar kind of knowledge. Most notable is the Faculty of Geo-economy the first institute of this kind in this part of the world. In June 2000 the Serbian Ministry of Higher Education approved the formation of the Megatrend University of Applied Sciences in Belgrade. Similar agreements were stipulated with "Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli" from Italy, with ''Berlin University of Applied Sciences'' from Germany, then, with ''Yanbian University of Science and Technology'' from China, ''Bournemouth University'' from United Kingdom, ''Academy Eliteâ'' from Moscow, ''European School of Business'', ''Rome'', Italy and ''Faculty of Economics, Donetsk National University'', Ukraine. In 2011 Megatrend purchased the operations of the failed International University Vienna, creating Megatrend International University Vienna which did not achieve accreditation before insolvency in 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719215454/http://www.iuvienna.edu/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613222502/http://megatrendvienna.at/ )〕 Megatrend University is a member of the Euro-Asia Management Studies Association (EAMSA), which runs yearly conferences in Europe and Asia to discuss economic and management issues as well as promoting research and publishing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Megatrend University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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