The Faculty of Security Science is the 18th member of the University of Banja Luka. The Faculty was established as a transformation of the College for Internal Affairs, which used to operate under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska into an organizational unit of the University of Banja Luka.
All students of the College for Internal Affairs can continue their studies at the Faculty, according to either the old or the new study programme.
The Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska issued a Decision on licensing the Security and Criminology study programme (240 ECTS), offering the degree of a bachelor of law in security and criminology.