Education in Romania - statistics & facts

The Romanian education system consists of the following stages: early education, primary education, secondary education (which includes secondary lower education or gymnasium and superior secondary education), tertiary non-university education, higher education, and adult education. Since early education is optional, compulsory school usually begins around six, starting with primary education, then lower secondary education, and the first two years of upper secondary education.

Educational infrastructure

In 2021, there were over seven thousand educational units in Romania and 221 students with maximal grades on the National Evaluation Exam. However, despite outstanding academic performances and university rankings, the school dropout rate remains a problem. In 2022, the European Union's average school dropout rate was 9.6 percent. On the other hand, in Romania. it was 15.6 percent. Regarding famous Romanian universities, the Ad Astra Association of Romanian Researchers annually publishes a report based on international academic rankings for Romanian universities. According to their latest report, the best university in 2022 was Babeș-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca, followed by the University of Bucharest and the Politechnica University from Bucharest.

Expenditure

According to Romanian law, national education should benefit from financing worth six percent of the country’s GDP. However, this amount was never achieved over the last few years. The proposed budget for education in 2023 totaled only 3.2 percent of Romania’s GDP. This represented an increase of 2.56 percent compared to the share allocated in 2022. Additionally, representatives from the Ministry of Education and Research claimed that the proposed budget for education in 2023 was the largest in absolute values in the last 30 years. Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Romania in March 2020, it became clear that the online education system required a higher budget. In other words, it is necessary not only to implement higher protection measures in schools but also to support online learning programs, as well as to ensure training related to online learning platforms for academic staff.
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Published by Statista Research Department, Jun 23, 2023

Key insights

Number of educational units in Romania
7,015
Budget for education in Romania
45.5bn Romanian lei
School dropout rate in Romania
15.6%
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