Public university in Bucharest, Romania
University of Bucharest
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Latin
:
Universitas Studiorum Bucurestiensis
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Other names
| UB, UniBuc
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Motto
| Virtute et Sapientia
(
Latin
)
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Motto in English
| Virtue and Wisdom
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Type
| Public
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Established
| 1694 – Princely Academy of Bucharest
1821 – Saint Sava College
4 July 1864
; 159 years ago
(
1864-07-04
)
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Academic affiliations
| IAU
,
UNICA
,
EUA
,
CIVIS
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Endowment
| RON 1.14 billion (US$274.76 million) (2018)
[1]
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Budget
| RON 364.7 million (US$87.67 million) (2018)
[2]
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Rector
| Marian Preda
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Academic staff
| 1,300 (2022)
[3]
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Students
| 32,576 (2022–2023)
[3]
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Undergraduates
| 22,428 (2022–2023)
[3]
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Postgraduates
| 8,911 (2022–2023)
[3]
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Location
| ,
Romania
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Campus
| Urban
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Colors
|
navy blue
[4]
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Website
| unibuc.ro
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The
University of Bucharest
(
UB
) (
Romanian
:
Universitatea din Bucure?ti
) is a
public
research university
in
Bucharest
,
Romania
. It was founded in its current form on 4 July 1864
(159 years ago)
(
1864-07-04
)
by a
decree
of Prince
Alexandru Ioan Cuza
to convert the former
Princely Academy
into the current University of Bucharest, making it one of the oldest Romanian universities. It is one of the five members of the
Universitaria Consortium
(a group of elite Romanian universities).
[5]
The University of Bucharest offers study programmes in Romanian and English and is classified as an
advanced research and education university
by the
Ministry of Education
.
History
[
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The original 1857 university main building, by
Alexandru Or?scu
Photograph from 1864 by
Carol Szathmari
The University of Bucharest was founded by the Decree no. 765 of 4 July 1864 by
Alexandru Ioan Cuza
and is a leading academic centre and a significant point of reference in society.
The University of Bucharest is rich in history and has been actively contributing to the development and modernization of Romanian education, science, and culture since 1694. In 1694
Constantin Brancoveanu
, ruler of
Wallachia
, had founded the
Princely Academy
in
Bucharest
with lectures delivered in Greek. In 1776,
Alexander Ypsilantis
, ruler of Wallachia, reformed the curriculum of the Princely Academy, where courses of French, Italian, and Latin were now taught. After 1821, the Princely Academy was continued by the
Saint Sava College
. In 1857,
Carol Davila
and
Nicolae Cre?ulescu
created the
National School of Medicine and Pharmacy
. In 1859, the Faculty of Law was created.
In 1857, the foundation stone of the University Palace in Bucharest was laid.
On 4/16 July 1864, Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza established the University of Bucharest, bringing together the Faculties of Law, Sciences and Letters as one single body. In 1869, the Faculty of Medicine is created through the transformation of the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy. In the following years, new faculties were created: 1884 ? the Faculty of Theology; 1906 ? the Institute of Geology; 1913 ? the Academic Institute for Electrotechnology; 1921 ? the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine; 1923 ? the Faculty of Pharmacy, 1924 ? the
Mina Minovici
Institute of Forensic Medicine.
In 1956, student leaders, mainly from this university, planned a peaceful protest against Romania's
Communist regime
but were forcibly prevented from carrying it out. (See
Bucharest student movement of 1956
).
For a while (in the 1950s and early 1960s), it was called the "C. I. Parhon University", after
Constantin Ion Parhon
.
Most of the building is still intact, however during the
bombardments of Bucharest in 1944
, the central corpus of the building was heavily damaged and demolished due to
Luftwaffe
bombs, and was only re-constructed in 1969?1971. Other sections were also completed by 1980.
The area around the old University building (the
University Square
), adjacent to the
C. A. Rosetti
,
Roman
,
Kog?lniceanu
, and
Union
squares was the scene of many riots, protests and clashes with the
security forces
during the
Romanian Revolution
of 1989. During the months of April?June 1990, the University of Bucharest was the centre of
anti-communist
protests.
In 1996,
Emil Constantinescu
, the then
rector
of the University of Bucharest, was elected
President of Romania
, after defeating
Ion Iliescu
in the
1996 Romanian presidential election
.
Organisation
[
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University Palace - the main building of the University of Bucharest
Faculties
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The Faculty of Law of The University of Bucharest
The University of Bucharest has 19 faculties, covering various fields such as natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, and theology:
[3]
- The Faculty of Business and Administration
- The Faculty of Biology
- The Faculty of Chemistry
- The Faculty of Law
- The Faculty of Philosophy
- The Faculty of Physics
- The Faculty of Geography
- The Faculty of Geology and Geophysics
- The Faculty of History
- The Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies
- The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
- The Faculty of Letters
- The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
- The Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences
- The Faculty of Sociology and Social Work
- The Faculty of Political Science
- The Faculty of Orthodox Theology
- The Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology
- The Faculty of Baptist Theology
Academic & Research Units
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The university has the following five interdisciplinary departments:
- Technology Department
- Distance Learning Department
- UNESCO Department for intercultural and interreligious exchanges
- Department of Education Pedagogy
- Francophone Doctoral School of Social Sciences (
French
:
Ecole Doctorale Francophone de l'Europe Centrale et de Sud-Est
)
The university also has a publishing house, different research institutes and research groups (such as the Institute for Political Research, the Institute for Mathematics,
the Center for Byzantine Studies, the
Vasile Parvan
Archeology Seminary, the Center for Nuclear Research, etc.), master and doctorate programmes, and a number of lifelong learning facilities and programmes. It has partnership agreements with over 50 universities in 40 countries, and participates in European programmes such as
ERASMUS
, Lingua, Naric, Leonardo da Vinci, UNICA, AMOS, TEMPUS, TEMPRA. It is an accredited
Cisco
Academy, has
Microsoft
curriculum, and is accredited by
Red Hat
for its academic programme.
Campus
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The
Central University Library
, housed in a rich
neo-baroque
structure
The University of Bucharest has a number of buildings throughout Bucharest, so in that respect it does not have a single campus. Its two main buildings are:
- The Old Building, in the University Square (practically right in the center of the city), housing the Faculties of Mathematics and Computer Science, History, Chemistry, Geography, Letters and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
- The Kog?lniceanu Building, near the
Opera House
, housing the Administrative section and the Faculty of Law.
Other faculties have their own buildings and research facilities, scattered throughout the city, such as:
- The Departments of Germanic, Slavic and Oriental Languages and Literatures, on Pitar Mo? Street.
- The Faculty of Physics, in the small town of
M?gurele
, situated 16 km (9.9 mi) south of Bucharest.
- The Faculty of Biology, on
Splaiul Independen?ei
.
- The Faculty of Philosophy, on
Splaiul Independen?ei
.
- The Faculty of Psychology, on ?oseaua Panduri.
- The Faculty of Political Science, on Sfantu ?tefan Street.
- The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, on Bibescu Voda Street, near
Unirii Square
.
- The Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, on General Berthelot Street.
- The Faculty of Baptist Theology, on Berzei Street.
The university prints an annual guide for freshmen.
Rankings
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In the 2012
QS World University Rankings
, the University of Bucharest was included in the Top 601-701 universities of the world, together with three other Romanian universities, including
Babe?-Bolyai University
in
Cluj-Napoca
, and
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
in
Ia?i
.
[9]
[10]
The University of Bucharest has been awarded the 2000 National Academic Excellence Diploma, and the 2004 National Academic Excellence Medal. All of the degrees and diplomas awarded by the university are internationally recognised.
Affiliations
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The University of Bucharest is a member of numerous international organisations and partnerships, including:
- The Association of Universities in European Capitals (UNICA)
- The Network of South-East European Universities
- The European University Association (EUA)
- Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)
- Black Sea Universities Network
(BSUN)
- Academic Cooperation Association (ACA)
- European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC)
- Eurasian Universities Union (EURAS)
- SEE GRID - South-East Europe GRID - 2005
- Central European Exchange Program for University Studies (CEEPUS)
- ERASMUS NETWORK EUE-NET
- Educational Structure in Europe, Phase IV (TUNING)
- European Physics Education Network (EUPEN)
- Stakeholders Tune European Physics Studies (STEPS)
As part of the on-going ERASMUS programme, the University of Bucharest has approximately 225 Erasmus agreements with European partner universities.
Academic staff, alumni, and rectors
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Past and present faculty
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Alumni
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- Zicu Araia
? poet, schoolteacher and Aromanian separatist (did not graduate)
- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
? physicist
- Nineta Barbulescu
? career diplomat, ambassador
- Ismat Beg
? mathematician
- Leon Boga
? writer, schoolteacher and archivist
- Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino
? archeologist
- Matilda Caragiu Mario?eanu
? linguist
- Hristu Candroveanu
? editor, literary critic and writer
- Mircea C?rt?rescu
? postmodern writer
- Zoia Ceau?escu
? mathematician, daughter of
Nicolae Ceau?escu
- Alexandrina Cernov
? academic, literary historian and philologist
- Emil Cioran
? essayist and philosopher
- George Ciucu
[
ro
]
? mathematician
- Daniel Dines
- billionaire entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of
UiPath
- Iosif Constantin Dr?gan
? businessman, writer, and historian
- Mircea Eliade
? historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the
University of Chicago
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
? economist
- Viviana Gradinaru
? Professor of Neuroscience at
Caltech
- Eugen Filotti
? diplomat
- Horia Hulubei
? physicist
- Grigore Iunian
? politician
- Traian Lalescu
? mathematician
- Stoica Lascu
? historian
- Gheorghe Mihoc
? mathematician
- Grigore Moisil
? mathematician and computer scientist
- Miron Nicolescu
? mathematician
- Constantin Noe
? editor and professor
- ?tefan Odobleja
? scientist, one of the precursors of
cybernetics
- Octav Onicescu
? mathematician
- George Emil Palade
? cell biologist, 1974 Nobel Prize laureate
- Nicolae Paulescu
? Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine, missed the Nobel Prize 1923 for discovering insulin
- Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos
? nuclear physicist and
AIDS denialist
- Andrei Ple?u
? philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary and art critic, and politician
- Dorin N. Poenaru
? nuclear physicist
- Valentin Poenaru
? mathematician
- Victor Ponta
? former
Prime Minister of Romania
[11]
- Constantin R?dulescu-Motru
? psychologist and sociologist
- Mihail Sadoveanu
? writer
- Ahmad Maher Abul Samen
?
Jordanian
Minister of Public Works and Housing and Minister of Transport
- Nicolae Saramandu
? linguist and philologist
[12]
- George Simion
? politician and activist
- Horia Sima
? leader of the
Iron Guard
and co-leader of the
National Legionary State
- Ruxandra Sireteanu
? neuroscientist
- Bogdan Suceav?
? mathematician and writer
- Nicolae ?erban Tana?oca
? historian and philologist
- Gheorghe Ta?c?
? economist
- Nicolas Trifon
? academic, editor and linguist
- ?erban ?i?eica
? physicist
- Radu Vasile
? politician and poet
- Dan-Virgil Voiculescu
? mathematician
Rectors
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See also
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References
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