Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University ( ro, Universitatea Creștină "Dimitrie Cantemir") is a
private university
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in
Bucharest
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. The university was founded in 1990 by Momcilo Luburici and
Corina-Adriana Dumitrescu as the Dimitrie Cantemir Independent University, which has since developed 17 faculties in
Bucharest
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,
Brașov
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,
Cluj-Napoca,
Constanța and
Timișoara
), City of Roses ( ro, Orașul florilor), City of Parks ( ro, Orașul parcurilor)
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Faculties
;Bucharest
*Law and Administration (''Stiinte Juridice si Administrative'')
*Touristic and Commercial Management (''Management Turistic si Comercial'')
*International Business and Economics (''Relatii Economice Internationale'')
*Finance, Banking and Accountancy (''Finante, Banci si Contabilitate'')
*Marketing
*Education Science (''Stiinte ale Educatiei'')
*Foreign Languages and Literatures (''Limbi si Literaturi Straine'')
*History (''Istorie'')
*Political Science (''Stiinte Politice'')
Accreditation issues
The Romanian newspaper ''Gândul'' reported that Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University started 34 Master's degree curricula for which it had no legal right of teaching.
["Universitatea Crestina "Dimitrie Cantemir" adopta modelul "Spiru Haret" "]
Gândul, July 20, 2009. (in Romanian) According to the university's rector,
Corina Dumitrescu
Corina Dumitrescu is a Romanian politician, member of the Social Democratic Party and since 2007 rector of Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University from Bucharest. She is also Advisory Board of the journal ''Cogito''.
She was nominated Education ...
, the relevant law has a loophole, since it uses a present continuous tense, which is uncharacteristic for the Romanian language.
[ She says that institutional evaluation (accreditation as required by law) may also happen after the curricula have been taught. The actual wording in Romanian is ''universitate acreditată supusă periodic evaluării instituţionale'' ("accredited university subject to periodical institutional evaluation"), and Dumitrescu argues that ''care se supun'' ("which are subject to") means that an accredited institution can be evaluated "today, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow" (and presumably, any time), not that its curricula would need to have been evaluated (i.e. accredited) in the past.][ For the study year 2010–2011, 16 Master's curricula from nine of its faculties are accredited in Order no. 4630/2010 of the Department of Education.
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Proper qualification
After proper educational assessment, the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS) issued a Degree of High Trust ( ro, Grad de încredere ridicată to the university, the highest qualification awarded in Romania to a higher education institution. In 2011, the university was inspected by The European University Association as an "education-centered university",[ meaning that it focuses more on teaching than on research. In Romania, this "education-centered university" category is the third and lowest grade that Romanian universities can get.] Following this, "education-centered universities" in Romania were no longer allowed to offer postgraduate degree
Postgraduate or graduate education refers to Academic degree, academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by higher education, post-secondary students who have earned an Undergraduate education, un ...
programmes.[
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References
External links
Official website
''Euromentor Journal''
studies about education, psychology, literature (bilingual English, Romanian), print and PDF (ISSN-L 2068-780X, E-ISSN 2247-9376; older ISSN 2067-7839)
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Universities in Bucharest
Educational institutions established in 1990
1990 establishments in Romania