Distance Education in Romania: English, too!

Distance Education in Romania:

The Romanian Ministry of National Education sanctioned DL programs through the promulgation of order no. 3457/23.03.1998, which introduced Distance Learning Education at Romanian universities. This being a new phenomenon, it is worth further investigation on this forum. I have taken the time to review this development, and I am reporting on it for further study. I have found that many programs of study in many fields are available, including undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate. Also, for foreign students, English is the medium of instruction in these taught and research programs. In some cases, some residencies (for oral or thesis exams) are/may be required.

In terms of cost, it is very inexpensive. It is some where between the inexpensive programs of South Africa and the Australian programs, if one is looking at it from an American Dollar point of view.

Many of the following web pages have functional English versions.

The University of Oradea organized the Department for the Distance Learning Education:

http://www.uoradea.ro/article/104/distance_learning_en.html

University of Bucharest

http://www.unibuc.ro/graduate/DoctorateForForeignStudents.htm

“1 Decembrie 1981” Alba Iulia University

http://www.uab.ro/

University of North Baia Mare

http://www.ubm.ro/ubm/

Transylvania University of Brasov

http://www.unitbv.ro/english_ver/index.php3

The University of Craiova

http://www.central.ucv.ro/

http://193.231.40.249/id/index_odl.htm

“Babes Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca

http://www.ubbcluj.ro/ubb-en/index.html
http://cfcid.ubbcluj.ro/

The University of Galati

http://www.ugal.ro/

West University of Timisoara

http://www.uvt.ro/

“Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu

http://www.sibiu.ro/en/html/main.htm

The “Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava

http://www2.usv.ro/index.jsp

http://www2.usv.ro/id/index.jsp

University of Petrosani

http://www.upet.ro/

“AI. I. Cuza” University of Iasi

http://www.uaic.ro/

“Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iasi

http://www.tuiasi.ro/home_page.en.html

I hope others have more information to share. Enjoy!

Kenneth K. A.

 

I dare you to say “Babes Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca three times real fast.....

Wes

 

Better yet, say it three times real fast without spitting all over the one you are talking to.....

Wes

 

Thank you for your remarks, Wes.

 

Nice one, Kenneth.

good and inexpensive programs in europe.

 

Thank you, Shabs. I wish more would take the time to investigate DL opportunities elsewhere in the world instead of "over-debating" issues of accreditation in the United States. It gets to be too much when many pontificate on the minutiae of accreditation in one place in the world, and becoming self-styled experts in such a narrow area (wether pro or con) that much else is neglected.

I wish that others who have "expertise/knowledge" in other areas would take the time to share.

Kenneth K. A.

 

Thanks for the info, KKA. It's certainly worth a look. My illiterate great-grandfather left Transylvania in 1907. To complete a legitimate university degree from Romania (let alone from a distinguished school like Babes-Bolyai or Iasi--not to knock the others) would be a wild bit of irony. Multumesc!

 

I looked at the websites; some are hard to figure out in their English versions. The Lucien Braga University in Sibiu appears not to have a working e-mail address. If you like fake baroque moldy wedding cake architecture, some of these univs are about ideal. I requested info from several and will report to this forum on the kind of response I get.

Wes: it's bah-besh boy-eye. Cluj-Napoca is pronounced as in English. If that's tricky, you could call it Kolozsvar or Klausenburg (the Magyar and German names for this old Transylvanian university town).

 

Oradea says no DL offered.

 

Anyone else felt a strong urge to investigate these programs based on whether the university names sound "good"? ;-)

Dave

 

I don't understand.

 

Craiova does not offer DL in theology; for that, they recommended Bucuresti or Sibiu. The Technical University of Iasi has an enormous and well-written English website for its engineering programs.