An 1864 decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza converted the former St. Sava Academy into the University of Bucharest, which presently comprises eighteen departments. Ever since, the University of Bucharest has been considered, within Romania and abroad, the country's leading educational and research institution.
With its 146 years of prestigious tradition, UB is the perfect destination for everyone who wants to start or continue a prominent career. Its educational offer varies from undergraduate and graduate studies to PhD and MBA programmes, as well as distance and eLearning opportunities.
The UB environment is competitive, judging by the 16.000 candidates applying for the approximately 4.000 subsidized places for undergraduates. A reclassification takes place every year, its consequence being that tax-paying students, having better results than the last budgeted students, occupy the latter's places. Faculties teaching Humanities have a program of acknowledging elective courses, allowing their students to choose other subjects than those in the curricula. Starting this year, the status of private lecturers will allow certain people with PhDs in science to teach at the University of Bucharest without being employed, in order to disseminate their research and get accustomed to an academic audience.
UB's international connections are firstly based on the Erasmus 287 agreements, which means that approximately 400 students go abroad for one or two semesters and some 90 other come to our university from partner institutions. Besides these, approximately 200 bilateral cooperation agreements with other universities conclude with conferences and lectures held by invited professors, research internships, and joint supervision agreements. Among the UB alumni we count Cristina Sebu from Oxford Brookes, Dan-Virgil Voiculescu from Berkeley, Paula Diaconescu from UCLA, Catalina Achim from Carnegie Mellon, Vlad Perju from Boston College Law School, and Ileana Orlich from Arizona State University.
Professional training at the UB is both serious and thorough. Our laboratories are supplied with top-level equipment, a high number of research centers with contracts, the magazines, students' scientific workshops, foreign lecturer offices and the twenty foreign lecturers, the events hosted by the Student Association and the Centre for Information and Orientation, the exhibitions and the concerts, all of these make for an eventful life. Fortunately, there is still time for tennis, basketball, football, body building, aerobics and competitive ballroom dancing, practiced in UB halls and on UB grounds.
