The University of Bucharest had a total budgeted income of nearly 60 million euros for the year 2006. While 16 percent of this was generated by student tuition, fees and other services, the University’s budget is still very much dependent on government funding, with almost 60 percent of income allocated by the Ministry of Education and Research.
What’s happening to young men at our universities? While the number of students in Romanian higher educational institutions rose from 190,000 in 1990 to 650,000 by 2005, the proportion of male students has fallen sharply. Today, nearly 71 percent of students enrolled at the University of Bucharest are female, according to Teamwork, a private organization of academics and students linked to the Department of Sociology.
Water leaking into the A building in the Leu campus is threatening its structural soundness, interfering with education and poses a health hazard to students and professors alike.
