University of Bucharest

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. Download high resolution version (2592x1944, 2201 KB) The University - Bucharest File links The following pages link to this file: Bucharest University of Bucharest Categories: GFDL images ... Download high resolution version (2592x1944, 2201 KB) The University - Bucharest File links The following pages link to this file: Bucharest University of Bucharest Categories: GFDL images ... A professor giving a lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Decree is an order that has the force of law. ... Alexander John (Alexandru Ioan) Cuza Alexandru Ioan Cuza (March 20, 1820, Galaţi - May 15, 1873, Heidelberg), known more commonly in English as Alexander John Cuza, was the ruler (1859-1866) of the United Principalites of Romania. ... The Saint Sava College was one of the earliest Academic institutions of Wallachia, Romania. ...

The area around the old University building, adjacent to the Theodor Rosetti, Roman Square, 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. Theodor Rosetti (4 May 1837 - 17 July 1932) was a Romanian writer, journalist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania between 13 April 1888 and 11 April 1889. ... Mihail Kogălniceanu (September 6, 1817, Iasi - July 1, 1891, Paris) was a Romanian statesman, historian and publicist, he became the first Prime minister of Romania October 11, 1863, after the union of Moldavian and Wallachian principalities. ... People on the streets of Bucharest The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a week-long series of riots and protests in late December of 1989 that overthrew the Communist regime of Nicolae CeauÅŸescu. ... Ion Iliescu (born March 3, 1930) is a Romanian politician. ... The Mineriad (Mineriada in Romanian) is a parody term following the names of classic events like the Olympics (Olimpiada in Romanian) or the Crusades (Cruciada in Romanian) representing a gathering of people with a usually honourable goal. ...

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

• Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
• 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, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, 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
• 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. Cisco may mean: Cisco (fish) Coregonus artedi, or any of several related fish species in Coregonus (Salmonidae) Cisco Systems, a computer networking company CISCO Security Private Limited, a security company in Singapore Abbreviation of Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation, a statutory board in Singapore An abbreviation for the name of...

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 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.

External link

• University of Bucharest Official Website