Study and Work in Romania

Romania

The national education system consists of state and private education institutions.The Romanian education system is open to foreign students. Foreign students are accepted for studying in Romania at any of the following levels.

Higher education is comprised in universities, institutes, academics, and academic colleges.
Universities and other institutions provide long term university education that covers the following fields:
Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Geology, Philology, History, Philosophy, Law, Theology, Sports-4 year courses; Economics - 4-5 year courses; Theatre and tilm-4-5 year courses; Agronomy-5 years; Veterinary -6 years; Technical-5-years; The arts-5 years; Architecture-6 years; Medicine (General and dentistry)-6 years; Pharmacy-5 years.

Post-graduate studies: Master's Degree-I-2 years, Ph.D.­ max. 4 years, day courses 6 years, Academic Post-graduate studies­
2-3 years, Other Post-graduate studies-1-7 years.

Admission: Foreign students wishing to study, in Romania cansend their application directly to the Romanian education institutions of their choice, or they are invited to address the International Relations Department of the Ministry of National Education.
The application file must include a letter of acceptance for admission, with which they can apply for a student visa at any of the Romanian Embassies abroad.

Also, the following papers are required:
* Application.
* Baccalaureate diploma-for admission to university applicants or academic license-for postgraduate studies applicants.
* University graduation marks-translated into a European language.
*The official papers need to be presented in original at registration, and the papers need to be authenticated by the education ministries of the respective countries and the Romanian Embassy of the country of origin.

Tuition Fees: For foreign citizens studying on their own:
Day courses: For pupils, no matter the profile: $215 monthly. All the fees are payable on the entire duration of the study year, including the practice period stipulated in the'CU1Ticula.

First three month's fee is due at the admission. The fee is non-returnable if a student abandons his studies, or non-concordance of the documents shown at the admission with those presented when applying to study in Romania, occurs.

For Technical, Economical, University, Agronomic, Physical Education and Sports-$ 320 monthly; Medical and Pharmaceutical­$ 360 monthly.

The accommodation and canteen-meal costs is also added if this services are available at the educational institution. The admission to studies is also granted on the basis of some scholarships offered by the Romanian State. The applications for the scholarship are received only at the Ministry of National Education.

Science and technology

On May 14, 1981 Romania became the 11th country in the world to
have an astronaut in space. That astronaut, Dumitru Prunariu is
today's president of Romanian Space Agency. On March 18, 1906
Traian Vuia became the first person to have flown a self-propelling,
heavier-than-air aircraft - he is also only the second person to have
taken off with a powered airplane. His flight was performed in
Montesson near Paris and was about 12 meters long. Henri
Coandă was another Romanian inventor and pioneer of aviation.
He built the world's first jet powered aircraft, the Coanda-1910, and
brought it at the Second International Aeronautical Exhibition in
Paris around October 1910.George Emil Palade is a Romanian cell
biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in
1974 for his study of internal organization of such cell structures as
mitochondria, chloroplasts, the Golgi apparatus, and for the
discovery of the ribosomes. He also won the National Medal
of Science in 1986.At the beginning of the 2000s, there was a
boom in Romania in the number of computer programmers.
Romania is reported to be among the countries with the highest
number of computer programmers in the world. Some examples of
successful software include RAV (Romanian AntiVirus) which was
bought in 2003 by Microsoft for use in their development of
Windows Defender; or BitDefender which is considered the number
one antivirus software and internet security software at
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