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.
How long: 4 years as a rule, extendable by 1–2 years. Doctorates are organised by doctoral schools of accredited institutions (IOSUD); the Ministry of Education confers the title.
Your status: you sign a doctoral studies contract; doctoral students may be employed as research assistants or assistant lecturers on fixed-term contracts. Registration and tuition fees are set by each university senate. The thesis can be written in Romanian, a minority language or an international language.
How to get in: a master's degree, with at least 300 credits from bachelor's and master's studies together.
Where to look: doctoral positions and calls are published on the websites of universities and their doctoral schools and on EURAXESS. Programmes in Romania in our database: Romania – 234 doctoral programmes (as of November 2026) »
Sources: Eurydice – national description of third-cycle (PhD) programmes (updated 18 March 2026). As of October 2026.
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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