Varna Free University "Chernorizets Hrabar" (University Free of Varna) is a

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, created in 1991 by resolution of the 37th

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and granted the status of a higher school in 1995. It organizes regular, part-time, and distance learning for its 12,000 students and maintains a campus in the town of

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. Varna Free University offers 80

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degrees, 20

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programs, and 20 accredited

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research courses.https://www.mastersportal.com/universities/12226/varna-free-university-chernorizets-hrabar.html It offers

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s to students with the highest grades, as well as prominent acting, dancing, and sports talents. The university is institutionally accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Agency at the

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, receiving the maximum period (six years) and assessment grade (9.20 out of the possible 10.0). The university is re-certified under the international standard ISO 9001:2008 and has been granted certificates from the

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and the ANSI National Accreditation Board for the implementation of accepted international standards. Varna Free University is the first and only university in Bulgaria certified with DS Label, ECTS Label, and HR by the European Executive Agency for Education and Culture at the European Commission of the European Union.

Faculties and Departments

Faculties

* Faculty of International

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

and

Administration Administration may refer to: Management of organizations * Management, the act of directing people towards accomplishing a goal ** Administrative assistant, Administrative Assistant, traditionally known as a Secretary, or also known as an admini ...

Faculty * Faculty of

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

* Faculty of

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

Departments

* Department of International

and

Politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies ...

* Department of Administration and Management * Department of

Computer Studies Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (including t ...

* Department of Legal Sciences * Department of

Security and Safety Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted Coercion, coercive change) caused by others, by restraining the freedom of others to act. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be of persons an ...

* Department of

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

* Department of

Architecture and Urban Studies Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings o ...

* Construction of

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Department * Department of

Art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

References

External links

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Student portalAdmissions portal
{{Authority control 1991 establishments in Bulgaria

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Educational institutions established in 1991