George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures

About the university

The George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures is a public university in Targu Mures, Romania that was founded in 1948. Classified as a research and education university by the Ministry of Education, it is one of the 6 traditional medical schools in Romania beside Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iasi and Timisoara, all being founded before the 1989 Romanian revolution. The university is named after the prominent scientist George Emil Palade. The University carries on its activity as a university with a structure and specialities that are accredited by the law. The University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Targu Mures functions as a public institution with legal status, being the only university in the field of healthcare where teaching is in Romanian, Hungarian, and recently, in English. Graduates of study programmes can benefit from different levels of academic degrees: bachelor, master?s, doctoral. Their area of specialisation according to the division of academic knowledge and professional division of labour is also different. Following the absorption of Petru Maior University, three more faculties were integrated into the university.