Spiru Haret University

Spiru Haret University
TypePrivate
Established1991
PresidentAurelian Gh. Bondrea
Location
Bucharest
,
Romania
Websitewww.spiruharet.ro

The Spiru Haret University is a private university in Bucharest, Romania, founded in 1991[1] by the president of Tomorrow's Romania Foundation, Aurelian Gh. Bondrea, as part of the teaching activities of this foundation.[2] The university claims this has been done according to the model used by Harvard University.[2] The university bears the name of a scientist and reformer of the Romanian education, Spiru Haret,[2] who lived before World War I.

On February 14, 2000, the university was accredited by the National Council of Academic Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education Institutions. The establishment of the university was confirmed by Law no. 443 of July 5, 2002[3] and this law has not been abolished.

According to the data published by the university in July 2010, it has 30 faculties with 49 specializations and 64 master's degree curricula,[2] being according to the newspaper Financiarul the largest university in Romania.[4] In 2009 enrollment was reported as 311,928 students.[1] Referring to the number of its students, the newspaper mistakenly called it the largest university in the world.[4] It is the second-largest private university in the world, after Islamic Azad University (with 1.3 million students).

Pope John Paul II and a former Romanian president, Ion Iliescu, have received honorary doctorates from the university.[2]

The Berceni campus

In 2011, the Spiru Haret University was officially evaluated as an "education-centered university", which is the third and lowest educational quality category of the Romanian universities.[5] Education centered universities have lost the right of organizing doctorate degrees studies.[5] In July 2017, Spiru Haret University ranked on the 27th place out of 103 other universities in Romania.[citation needed]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference listaprofesorilor was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c d e Universitatea Spiru Haret. "Prezentarea Universitatii". Universitatea Spiru Haret. Retrieved July 27, 2010.
  3. ^ Legea nr. 443/2002 (see also Decree no. 611/July 4, 2002).
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference financiarul was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b Raul Florea, Clasificarea universităților. Vezi aici ce universități vor fi axate pe licență, masterat și doctorat Archived 2011-10-16 at the Wayback Machine Gândul, September 6, 2011.