EU citizens can get a state-funded place on the same terms as Romanian students; otherwise fees are usually €2,000–10,000 a year, and non-EU students pay on average €2,000–5,000. Romania has 52 public and 32 private universities, and its universities of medicine and pharmacy offer medicine in English. See what a student residence costs (from €80 a month) and how far €600–900 a month goes.
Programmes are taught mainly in Romanian, but institutions also offer programmes in English, French, German and Hungarian. If you want to study in Romanian, you can start with a one-year preparatory Romanian course (an pregătitor, 60 ECTS) – offered, for example, by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest.
For programmes in a foreign language you need a certificate, usually at level B2 – UMF Cluj-Napoca, for example, requires it for medicine in English and in French, unless you completed secondary school in that language. You can use, for example, IELTS or TOEFL.
Sources: European Commission – Study in Europe (education.ec.europa.eu/study-in-europe), Eurostat, official national study and residence portals and authorities, Eurodesk, enic-naric.net, studentnews.eu. As of September 2026.
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