A business card of the University of Ruse

A BUSINESS CARD

Name of higher education institution	“Angel Kanchev” University of Ruse
Type of higher education institution	state university
Location and address	8, Studentska str., Ruse 7017, Bulgaria

Principal activities	training of higher degree specialists;
	improvement and extention of qualification;
	research and production activities;
	other activities permitted by the Higher Education Law.

Rector:	Prof. Boris Tomov, DSc

Number of students for 2001-02 academic year 7734, of which international 101 from 8 countries

	Students	Doctoral	Non-degree	Total
Full-time	5009	109	534	5652
Part-time	1810	54	218	2082
Total	6819	163	752	7734

Full-time personnel: 942, of which faculty 608, incl. 208 full and associate professors

Principal Units at RU: 11

- The Faculty of Mechanization of Farming
- The Faculty of Mechanical and Production Engineering
- The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation
- The Faculty of Automobile Engineering
- The Faculty of Business and Management
- The Faculty of Pedagogy
- The Faculty of Law
- The Faculty of Physical Therapy
- Silistra Branch
- The Technical College at Silistra
- The Technological College at Razgrad

Auxiliary Units at RU: 10

- Center for Postgraduate Studies and Continuing Education
- Research Unit
- University Library
- Center for Informational and Computer Services
- Administrative Unit
- Instruction Assistance Unit
- Technical Assistance Unit
- International relations department
- Department of Public Relations and Advertising
- “Universal – PZ” production plant

Number of degree programmes offered: 34 in 6 of the 10 major fields of study (education, humanities, economics and management, mathematics and natural sciences, health care, engineering and technology)

Number of students from Class 2001: 1076

Number of approved vacancies for admission 2001-2002:

- undergraduate and graduate: 1305 in 34 degree programmes

- doctoral degree students: 60

The number of state - approved vacancies for admission ranks RU 11^th out of 41 higher education institutions and the number of state-approved doctoral study vacancies ranks it 4th out of 34 such instutions.

Number of applicants for 2001-2002: 3759 (RU ranks 9^th out of 17 higher education instutions from all regions of the country, for which there was data available)

Number of applicants competing for one vacancy: 3,12 ( RU ranks 9^th out of 17 institutions)

Admission: principal competition (with two admissions by 18.08.01) – 84,23% of the vacancies taken; additional competition (with two admissions by 31.08.01).

This was a repetition of last year’s most succeessful admission for the last 6 years based on the following criteria: term of completion, minimum GPA, rate of admitted but not enrolled students, etc

RU is the only university in the present and former Ruse region (with a population of approximately 1 million), which is in keeping with the international index “one hihger education institution per one million people”.

RU ranks 10^th among the largest higher education institutions comparing indexes, such as: number of state-approved vacancies for admission, overall number of students, number of doctoral study students, size of state subsidy, applicants versus approved vacancies ratio, etc, and is among the 10 biggest universities in Bulgaria.

The University is the only Bulgarian higher education institution which is a regular member of the European Association of Universities from the Danube Countries.

RU was accredited on 13^th May, 1999 by the National Evaluation and Accreditation

Agency for a five – year period with the highest grade – “very good”.

Prepared by: Assoc.prof. Mladen Trifonov, PhD Eng
Director of “Public Relations and Advertising” at Ruse University

University of Ruse, 8 Studentska Str., 7017 Ruse, tel.: +359 82 888 355, факс: +359 82 455 145
http://www.uni-ruse.bg E-mail: dir-vor@uni-ruse.bg