University of Bucharest

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University of Bucharest is a university founded in 1864 by decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Saint Sava Academy into the current University of Bucharest.

The area around the old University building (the University Square), adjacent to the C.A. Rosetti, Roman, Kogălniceanu and Union Squares were 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, directed mainly against the clique of the new president Ion Iliescu, who had taken power in December 1989. These non-violent protests of Romanian students were brutally crushed in the third Mineriad (13-15 June 1990) by the miners called by president Iliescu.

In 1996, Emil Constantinescu, the then rector of the University of Bucharest, was elected president of Romania, after defeating Ion Iliescu in national presidential elections.

Currently the university has 19 departments, covering fields such as natural sciences humanities, social sciences and theology.

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Faculty of Chemistry
Faculty of Physics
Faculty of Biology
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Geography
Faculty of Philosophy
Faculty of Geology and Geophysics
Faculty of History
Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies
Faculty of Foreign Languages (with Departaments of English, French, German, Hungarian, Czech, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi and Rromani)
Faculty of Psychology And Educational Studies
Faculty of Political Science (with Departaments in English, French and Romanian)
Faculty of Literature, Language and Philology (officially Faculty of Letters)
Faculty of Public Administration and Management (wirh Departaments in English)
Faculty of Sociology and Social Assistance
Faculty of Orthodox Theology
Faculty of Catholic Theology and Social Assistance
Faculty of Baptist Theology

The University also has a publishing house, different research instutes and research groups (such as the Institute for Political Research, Institute for Mathematics, Center for Bizantine Studies, Vasile Parvan Archeology Seminary, Center for Nuclear Research etc.), master and doctorate programmes and a number of life long 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. 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.

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Facilities

The University of Bucharest has a number of buildings throughout Bucharest, in that respect, not having a single campus. Its main two buildings are the Old Building, in the University Square (and practically right in the center of the city) - housing the Faculties of Mathematics, Informatics, Chemistry, Geography and Literature, and the Kogalniceanu 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 Faculty of Political Science (on Sfantu Stefan Street), Faculty of Physics (in the small town of Magurele - 16 km/10 miles from Bucharest), Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Languages (on Pitar Moş street), and so on. This, mixed with the fact that student dormitories and other facilities are located in very different locations prompted the university to print a yearly guide for freshmen.

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