 Unlike most other European universities, the university operates as a loose association of faculties, each with a legally autonomous status and administrative structure.This has been criticized by the World Bank as leading to a redundant duplication of programmes and facilities, hindering an effective prioritisation of programmes.The university of Pristina was founded in the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, Socialist Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia, in Pristina, the first academic year being 1969-1970, and functioning until 1999.