phd economics romania

Study programs

• Doctoral studies
• September 2024 Admission to Doctoral studies
• Admission 2024: Proposed doctoral research topics (2.Number of places...)
• Educational offer 2024: Doctoral programs - subsidized enrolment numbers

The development of doctoral schools within Bucharest University of Economic Studies occurs in the context of it being one of the best research intensive and education universities in Romania. This is the most prestigious economic university in Romania, which has been organizing economic studies for nearly a century.

Currently, Bucharest University of Economic Studies organizes doctoral programs in Economic Studies and Law.

The university operates ten doctoral schools in economics and a doctoral school of law:

• Business Administration
• Economic Cybernetics and Statistics
• Economics I (organized by the Faculty of Theoretical and Applied Economics)
• Economics II (organized by the Faculty of Agrifood and Environmental Economics)
• Economics and International Business
• Economic Informatics

Doctoral schools are organized by the faculties of the University. Doctoral work at Bucharest University of Economic Studies is managed by the Council for Doctoral Studies (CSUD). The Council consists of professors and doctoral students from our University and professors from other universities in the country and abroad.

The activity of graduate schools is organized to ensure that the following principles are respected:

• the principle of transparency by consulting all PhD advisors.
• the principle of responsibility of each member of the doctoral schools and the full exploitation of his/ her potential.
• the principle of quantitative evaluation of the activity of doctoral schools and their members, proposing an evaluation of each and every member of the doctoral schools (PhD advisors and PhD students) based on a set of quantitative indicators that are defined depending on the requirements of their reaccreditation process.
• development of interdisciplinary research that will produce works of high scientific value.
• compliance with ethical and professional conduct;
• internationalization of the activities of the doctoral schools.

For more details, visit the Doctoral School webpage (in Romanian): http://doctorat.ase.ro/ .

Cautare cadre didactice

Programe Doctorale in Economie si Drept - Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti

CONSILIUL PENTRU STUDIILE UNIVERSITARE DE DOCTORAT (CSUD)

International Admission

Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE)

Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE), founded in 1913, is one of the largest universities in Romania and the only one specializing entirely in Economics and Business., being ranked as a top university in Romania. Our university is ranked 601-800 in Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021 (and second time in a row on the first position in Romania) and 301-350 in the QS Ranking 2017 in Economics & Econometrics. ASE is also the best positioned Romanian university in Shanghai’s Ranking ARWU 2019 being ranked 201 300 in Economic & Business Administration and 401-500 in Management. Comprising 13 faculties and 23 centres for research on economic and social topics, it offers undergraduate and graduate programs, doctorates in Economics, Business, Law and interdisciplinary fields, and post-doctoral programs to more than 23.000 students. Our university aims to improve constantly the educational and research environment for its students, academic staff & researchers, correlated with higher involvement in the community, under the development of the European Higher Education Area.

ASE is committed to enhancing the knowledge economy, valorising more European citizenship , increasing employability and cross-border mobility. Within the triangle education-research-innovation, ASE aims at covering a wide range of subjects, with the main focus on maintaining an active position in the policy-making process in Romania, by providing decision makers with up-to-date research on issues regarding current issues of interest to the community. ASE continuously improves and develops its curricula in an effort to increase the quality and relevance of its educational offer. The Internationalisation Strategy of ASE for 2016-2027 highlights the fact that the consolidation of the international dimension is meant to guide ASE towards excellence, not only in teaching and research, but also, in creating a professional environment which allows for capitalization on the whole potential of human resources. Within this approach, ASE has built its internationalisation strategy on the following assumed academic values: Decisional transparency and academic freedom, Quality assurance of the educational act and International and intercultural openness. The above-mentioned strategy established 4 priority areas of strategic planning in the field of internationalisation, with a strong focus on Internationalisation of the curriculum, increasing the number of international students and of foreign professors teaching at ASE, increasing the European and international mobility of ASE students and academics, developing international partnerships and Increasing international scientific cooperation and the international visibility of ASE research results.

Cooperation with relevant stakeholders is another key pillar of ASE evolution: ASE has sought to consolidate and conclude strategic agreements with the economic and social environment alongside the following main directions: offering study programs adapted to the current needs and perspective of companies, offering annual internships and other career development programs for students, conducting applied research projects and implementing results, organizing joint business events. During the last four years, ASE established long term partnerships with OMV, Deloitte, PWC, Google, Oracle, ERSTE, Microsoft, EY, companies that have invested over 600.000 Euro in developing ASE infrastructure and delivering joint educational and applied research projects.

With more than 900 academic staff of which 10% being international, our University offers:

– 25 Bachelor’s programs, out of which 8 are taught through the medium of English (Business Administration; Management; Marketing; Finance and Banking; Accounting and Management Information Systems; Economic Informatics; Business Administration in Trade, Tourism, Services and Quality Management; International Economics and Business), 1 in French (Business Administration) and 1 in German (Business Administration);

– 73 Master’s programs (4 MSc. and 69 MA), out of which 14 are taught in English, 1 in French and 1 in German;

– 2 International MBA programs, with dual degrees, accredited internationally and taught through the medium of English (Romanian-Canadian MBA and Romanian-French MBA);

– 1 postgraduate diploma program – Strategic Hospitality Management;

– 10 doctoral programs, available also in English, French or German: Accounting; Business administration; Business law; Cybernetics and Statistics; Economics; International business and economics; Finance; Economic informatics; Management; Marketing.

Our university welcomes each year over 800 degree-seeking foreign students that represents 3,5% of annual student cohorts.

The university provides services for the international students such as: orientation and integration (in cooperation with the students’ associations), accommodation in student residence halls owned by the university, university restaurants, free internet access on campus, computer rooms, library, university book shop, sports facilities, medical services, career guidance, language courses (11 languages, including Romanian as a foreign language), cultural and social activities.

Organisation of Studies

ASE has fully implemented the Bachelor-Master-PhD structure recommended in the Bologna Declaration.

Bachelor’s Programmes

These study programmes are 3 years long (6 semesters) and are assigned 180 ECTS. For admission, applicants must hold a Baccalaureate Diploma or an equivalent, such as a high school degree that allows for the continuation of studies within a higher education institution.

Master’s Programmes

Master’s programmes are 2 years long (4 semesters) and are assigned 120 ECTS. For admission, applicants must hold a Bachelor’s Diploma or an equivalent. The programmes can be focused on research or on developing specialized professional competences .

The academic offer includes 3 international prestigious educational programs, organized in cooperation with top-notch Universities from France, Canada and Switzerland.

Doctoral school

ASE promotes PhD study relating to main areas served within each faculty by research centres. PhD studies are usually 3 years long and are available to holders of Master’s degrees.

Faculty of Administration and Public Management

The faculty’s mission is to train specialists in public affairs for both Romania and EU, while leading on scientific research in the field.

We aim to develop personalities and human characters, in accordance with the humanist ideals and standards of qualitative training of professional skills competitive in social sciences as well.

The values we rely on in carrying out FAPM’s activities are: continuity, professionalism, responsibility, sense of solidarity, creativity, transparency in educational activities for all members of the faculty, performance, reliability, quality and ethics in the educational process.

Faculty of Accounting and Management Information Systems

Our mission is to further educational and research excellence in the field of accounting and management information systems. Our faculty continues to rank as a national leader and as a top school in the accounting field in European rankings (U-Multirank).

Bachelor programmes provide graduates 8 exemptions from the ACCA curriculum and 4 exemptions for the CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting.

Faculty of Agrifood and Environmental Economics

Faculty of Agrifood and Environmental Economics (EAM) offers undergraduate, master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral degree programmes which aim to prepare specialists in the specific field of agrifood and environmental economics and knowledge development in economics in the context of European integration and sustainability. The faculty offers opportunities for acquiring transversal knowledge, the development of analytical skills, managerial and entrepreneurial skills in order to develop sustainable economic activities.

Faculty of Business Administration in foreign languages

The mission of the Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages is to shape the excellence in business administration education services with a view to meeting the requirements of both academic and labor market needs.

The faculty relies on a valuable, enthusiastic, dynamic, motivated teaching staff which is strongly connected to research and education networks of the most important universities of the world.

Faculty of Business and Tourism

The Faculty’s mission is to provide quality education in business administration in tourism, services, commodities science and quality management.

The scientific academic community of the faculty has a special role as it is subject to continuous challenges of deep socio-economic changes at national, regional and international levels. Positioned at the interface of economic theory and practice, it has proved its ability to solve problems at high levels of quality.

Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics

Faculty of finance, insurance, banks and stock exchange.

Given that the financial market is constantly the subject of changes and increasingly more countless pressures, the academic training in this field has to prove the same dynamics, in order to make sure that our graduates will successfully face the challenges imposed  by the practical activity. Public finance, banking, capital markets and insurance fields claim specialists with a thorough knowledge and understanding, which can be provided by graduating the Bachelor’s program of the Faculty of Finance and Banking. Our strong belief is that our graduates will successfully integrate in the labor market and will adapt to the ongoing developments of the financial and economic environment.

Faculty of International Business and Economics

The Faculty of International Business and Economics is a noteworthy business school at national and European level, a university area which supports and guarantees the quality of all activities. The Faculty offers the possibility to develop communication skills in two foreign languages as our students study two compulsory foreign languages and have access to 11 other elective language courses in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Chinese, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.

Faculty of Law

The Faculty of Law offers the highest educational standards in its field, starting from the undergraduate level and progressing all the way to doctoral studies.

In order to achieve its educational goals, the quality of the teaching process will be ensured by high-caliber academic staff comprised of professors with a significant practice background and well-established reputation within the juridical field.

Faculty of Management

The Faculty of Management, as part of the academic community of Bucharest University of Economic Studies, a leader of Romanian management science, constantly aspires to discover novelty in all of its forms by generating excellence in research, by maintaining a high quality learning environment, and by passion for knowledge and by the passion for knowledge and innovation of its members.

Faculty of Marketing

Faculty of theoretical and applied economics.

The Faculty of Theoritical and Applied Economics is one of the most prestigious degree schools in Economics in Europe where students can acquire and develop economic complex integrated skills within the study disciplines that constitute the structure and strength in the formation of any economist –The Philosophy of Economics, Classic and contemporary economic doctrines, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Romania’s economy, European Economics, Public Economics, Labour Economics, Theories and models of competition.

These disciplines are essential to the correct interpretation of economic phenomena and adaptation of the best solutions to the challenges of the economy.

MBA Programs: Bucharest Business School

The Bucharest Business School was established in 2014, as a faculty within Bucharest University of Economic Studies, an umbrella brand for the two existing MBA programmes offered by our university, in partnership with prestigious international university partners Romanian Canadian MBA and Romanian-French MBA (former INDE), both taught through the medium of English.

Academic Year Structure

The academic year has two semesters. The first semester starts at the beginning of October and is completed by mid- February. The second semester runs from late February to late June.

The exact duration of each specific programme can be checked with the individual programme outline.

The two regular examination periods are at end of January – beginning of February and end of May – mid-June.

The re-examination session takes place in the second half of June – beginning of July.

Office for International Cooperation & International Students

[email protected]

+40 213 19 19 84 / fax: +40 213 19 20 23

Piața Romană no. 8, N.D. Xenopol Building, Ground floor (entrance from Dacia Blvd.)

Monday to Friday: 09:00 – 13:00

Proiect cofinantat din Fondul Social European prin Programul Operational Capital Uman 2014 – 2020

Doctoral programme (PhD)

Program description.

At ULBS, the doctoral studies in the field of Economics have been organized since 1996. Currently, the field of Economics is part of the Doctoral School of Social Sciences. Six scientific supervisors are active in the field of Economics at ULBS. Among the main objectives of this PhD programme there can be mentioned the training of highly qualified specialists, with advanced knowledge in the field of research, capable of identifying and creatively solving research problems, with competence in writing scientific papers and other academic materials at an advanced level, with expertise in processing data at advanced level. The duration of the doctoral programme for the doctoral field of Economics is of 4 years, according to the Higher Education Law no. 199/2023.

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Last updated: 02.02.2024

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Study domain

Tuition fees for Romanian/EU/EEA students / year of study

The tuition fee is decided annually by decision of the University Senate and is announced publicly. For the 2024-2025 academic year the fee is 1800 euro.

Tuition fees for non-EU students / year of study

ECTS credits

Type of study