Romania

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  • Membership in EQAR
    Romania has been a Governmental Member of EQAR since March 2008.

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  • General information on higher education

    Higher education is offered by higher education institutions, public or private that have provisional authorisation or accreditation.

    The Romanian higher education system follows the three cycles of the Bologna Process:

    • 1st cycle, BA (bachelor’s degree) – 3 years.

    Some degrees may be longer i.e. the BA in engeneering is 4 years and EU regulated professions include BA of 5 or 6 years for Medical, Pharmaceutical, Dental, Veterinary or Architectural studies;

    • 2nd cycle, M.A.(master’s degree) – 2 years;

    • 3rd cycle, PhD studies – 3 years.

  • National external quality assurance requirements

    • Institutional evaluations/accreditation
      are valid for five years. During the evaluation procedure, about 20 per cent of the study programmes offered by the institution are also evaluated. Before initiating an institutional accreditation higher education institutions need to apply for provisional authorisation.

    • Programme evaluation/accreditations
      are valid for five years and must be renewed regularly. Programmes first need to receive a provisional authorisation that is granted by the Ministry and, two years after the graduation of the first cohort, programmes may apply for an accreditation.

    • Evaluation of Master Study Domains
      The evaluation procedure started in 2018. The results of the evaluation are valid for five years.

  • Cross-border quality assurance

    In Romania higher education institutions may choose a suitable EQAR-registered agency.

    Romanian higher education institutions can choose for their programme accreditation and periodic external evaluations the national QA agency, ARACIS or any other EQAR listed agency.

    • Eligibility requirements for foreign agencies: Registration on EQAR is sufficient. Before initiating the review process, the QA agency has to consult the Romanian quality assurance agency (ARACIS) on the methodology and the terms of reference for the review (Ord. 6154 of 21 Dec 2016).

    • Conditions for the agencies’ work (e.g. criteria to be used): national criteria (see Methodology for External Evaluation, approved 25/11.01.2018)

    • Recognition of reviews carried out by foreign agencies: The field specific departments from ARACIS will check whether the review report followed the national methodology and legislation. The ARACIS Council will then validate the external review report, if the review process was carried out according to the national legislation (See Art. 4 of Ord 6154 of 21 December 2016).

    Read more: countries where higher education institutions may choose a suitable EQAR-registered agency

  • European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes

    In Romania the European Approach is not available to higher education institutions.

    Read more: countries where the European Approach is available to higher education institutions

  • Further information

Registered agencies operating in Romania