Babeș-Bolyai University is one of the most prestigious universities in Romania. With more than 500 years of history, this university is the oldest and largest in the country, with more than 40.000 students who have the opportunity to study in one of its twenty-one faculties.
The Babeș-Bolyai University has a multicultural feature provided by multilingual study programs:
- Romanian
- Hungarian
- German
- English
- French
Some of the names with great influence in academia that come from the Babeș-Bolyai University are:
- Augustin Maior (1882- 1964) physicist
- Bolyai János (1802-1860) mathematician
- Alexandru Borza (1887-1971) botanist
- Herman Oberth (1894-1989) world renowned physicist
- Emil Racoviţă (1868-1947) biologist and speleologist
- Sextil Puşcariu (1877-1948) linguist
