Moldovan universities start admission session

Chisinau, 16 July /MOLDPRES/ - Thirteen universities from Moldova started the admission session today.   

Among the institutions which opened their doors for the lyceum graduates, there are: State University of Moldova (USM), Technical University of Moldova (UTM), Academy of Economic Studies, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy and others    

Nine out of those 13 universities which started the admission are public higher education institutions and four ones – private. Documents can be submitted to the university institutions in the time interval 9:00-17:00.

This year, more universities presented new educational offers. According to the labour market’s requirements, decision-makers proposed to introduce new specialties in the following sectors: engineering and engineering activities, arts, agricultural sciences, health and sports sciences.  

Contacted by MOLDPRES, the head of the Education Ministry’s directorate of polices in the higher education sector, Nadejda Velisco, has said that the admission programme included: submitting the acts, presentation of the preliminary results, submitting original acts, presentation of final results and the additional session. “About 5,000 places financed from the state budget have been provided for this year and the price of the contracts set by universities varies depending on the expenses borne,” Velisco noted.      

In all, 26 universities from Moldova announced their offers for the next academic year. Seventeen of them are public higher education institutions and nine are private.  

The preliminary results will be announced, to a great extent, in the second half of July, early August, the submission of the original acts – in late July and the final results will be announced in early next August.  

According to the plan on training staff with budgetary financing, as many as 4,906 people will be admitted to university studies at 167 specialties; the number of places with budgetary financing is the same as in 2017.   

As many as 2,876 places of master higher education will be financed from the state  budgetary and 453 persons are to be admitted to residency training. A number of 297 places will be reserved for foreign students, of which 255 – at the university studies and 42 – at master ones.

(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor A. Raileanu)