The study programme was confirmed by the Senate of the Faculty of Organizational Sciences at the University of Maribor, on September 20, 2005 and the Senate of the University on September 27, 2005. The Council for Higher Education of the Republic of Slovenia gave consent to the study programme on September 30, 2005. The study programme was in the course of the accreditation renewal procedure validated September 20, 2011, by the University of Maribor, Senate of the Faculty of Organizational Sciences Kranj, and, after that, September 30, 2011, by the Senate of the University of Maribor, the decision about the study programme accreditation renewal was granted by the Council of the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (SQAA) as of August 30, 2012. The change of the name of the study program of Organization and Management of Business and Work Systems in Enterprise Engineering was approved by the Senate of the Faculty of Organizational Sciences at the University of Maribor, on July 4, 2016 and the Senate of the University on September 27, 2016.

Conditions for progression to the 2nd year: a student advances into 2nd year, if he has collected at least 40 ECTS credits with the obligations of the 1st year that he completed. Conditions for progression to the 3rd year: a student advances into 3rd year, if he has completed all obligations of the 1st year (collected 60 ECTS) and has collected at least 45 ECTS credits in the 2nd year.

At the moment, the 1st-Cycle Academic study programme does not include parts which can be completed singly.

A graduate may continue studies at: - the 2nd-cyclel Master's study programme

Methods of testing knowledge are defined in the each individual course syllabus.

The essential objective of the Enterprise Engineering Academic Study Programme is to transform the student into an expert who: Understands the operation and engineering in business environments in the broadest sense, Implements tasks of crucial process and managerial workplaces successfully, whereby using the engineering principles of modern environments, Thinks critically and solves business and engineering problems of construction of modern production systems in an analytical way, Uses and develops the systems for an effective and efficient planning, organizing, managing and controlling of business and production systems, and perceives learning as a life-long process.

A graduate of the Enterprise Engineering Academic Study Programme is an organizer holding theoretical and applicative engineering knowledge from the field of Management of Integral, Business, Organizational, and Information Systems. The graduate is capable of taking over the most demanding tasks of engineering, i.e. in planning, designing, developing, and managing of modern business systems from the fields of Industry and Services and their autonomy units. Moreover, the graduate is qualified for: Finding, analysing and solving of problems, and designing, construction and implementation of modern organizational and computerised information solutions, Studying of organizational, engineering and information processes and systems, Studying and engineering of production processes and systems, both in terms of technological resources, as well as individual procedures, Using of modern work methods in organizational design of work, Designing of objectives and strategies for engineering business systems’ development, Anticipation, planning and engineering of a business system and all its fields of operation, Managing of engineering planning, setting up, and maintaining of organization and business system informatics, Managing of company’s development, development of business fields, organizational and information systems, development of business processes and product development (products and services), Managing of assurance and quality systems, Engineering of business and production processes given the safety at work, Connecting the personal work regarding the harmony, economy, and efficiency of work in connection with the study of work, Optimizing – rationalisation of material consumption given the standards, Exploiting of work resources, Optimization of transport, Optimization of working time exploitation, Quality of work given the technological harmony, Mastering of the technological systems’ engineering basics and environment protection, Use of the computerised business information systems, Managing and leading of large, medium and small business and production systems, etc.

In the academic study programme Enterprise Engineering anyone can enrol: a.) who has completed general matura, b.) who has completed vocational matura in any high school programme and passed the exam in one of the matura subjects. The chosen subject must not be a subject which a candidate already completed at vocational matura, c.) who completed any four-year high school programme before June 1st 1995.

If the Decision of Limited Enrolment is adopted, the candidates under a) and c) for enrolment, will be selected according to: - The overall achievement in general matura or final exam: 60% of the points, - overall achievement in the 3rd and 4th year: 40% of the points; Candidates under b) for enrolment, will be selected according to: - The overall achievement in vocational matura: 40% of the points, - overall achievement in the 3rd and 4th year: 40% of the points, - Achievement in matura subject: 20% of the points.

Criteria for recognition of knowledge and skills are regulated by Regulations on knowledge and skill recognition in study programmes of the University of Maribor.

A student completes the study programme when all obligations of the programme are fulfilled, when the diploma thesis is successfully defended and when at least 180 ECTS are collected altogether.