The university was first established as an Institute of Higher Education, and grew out of the additional HE operations of the local Filial High School in Korçë, on 15 October 1968.In 1994 the university was renamed in honour of the former Prime Minister and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church, Fan S. Noli.The Filial High School began teaching paired Higher Education courses in Language and Literature, Mathematics and Physics, History and Geography where highly qualified international professors with degrees from Harvard and Yale teach there, and Biology and Chemistry.The studies of the university are organized full-time and part-time and have two cycles as per the Bologna Declaration.[1] Fan Noli offers master programs in the Teaching and the Agricultural schools[2] and is member in the Balkan Universities Network.