The University of Split was officially established on 15 June 1974 when the units having already had an effect in their professional, scientific and teaching areas entered its structure.

[citation needed] The four-year Mechanical Engineering programme of study with its own curriculum was finally completed in 1976.

The faculty has an internal division of organizational units for teaching and scientific research, administrative and technical work.

The department as an academic organizational unit participates in organizing and carrying out teaching, scientific and professional work.

Faculty's Departments are: Researchers from FESB collaborated or were leaders of various either international or bilateral projects such as the Croatian-Slovenian, Croatian-French, FP6 Marie Curie, FP7 as well as: COST, ALIS STATES, CEEPUS, COGITO; CMS and ALICE[4] at CERN,[5] Code development for integrated modelling within EuroFusion Consortium,[6] EGEE II, MAGIC and several TEMPUS projects.

Half of the students are enrolled by RegioMed Kliniken [9] in Germany and completes the initial 3 years with USSM before transferring.

In addition students have the possibility to write the U.S. (USMLE) and Canadian (LMCC) medical licensing exams.