According to Revisal Data, Reported on the Average Salary of Comprehensive University Graduates
The University of Bucharest is the first comprehensive higher education institution in Romania, according to the degree of employability and income obtained by graduates: 17,692 lei, the average salary obtained by graduates of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. At the same time, the University of Bucharest is in the top 200 universities in the world and the only university in Romania included in the top employability of graduates.
According to the most recent data correlated between REVISAL and the Matriculation Register (RMU) existing in the system for monitoring the employability of higher education graduates, graduates of the University of Bucharest have the highest salaries in Romania, compared to the graduates of the other comprehensive Romanian universities. UB graduates obtain, 5 years after graduation, an average salary of approximately 5,600 lei.
Moreover, in fields such as IT or Law, the average salaries obtained by graduates of the University of Bucharest amount to 17,692 lei and 7,400 lei, respectively.
At the same time, the University of Bucharest maintains, again this year, its leading position among comprehensive higher education institutions in Romania in terms of the degree of employability of its graduates. Thus, the results of the QS World University Rankings – Sustainability 2023 ranking, which places the University of Bucharest in first place at national level in the “Employability & Opportunities” subfield, come to reconfirm the prestige enjoyed by the University of Bucharest among employers, this being among the top 200 universities in the world in terms of graduate performance. For the “Alumni Outcomes” indicator, the University of Bucharest ranks 191st worldwide in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022.
We also add that the University of Bucharest is the only Romanian university included in Quacuarelly Symonds – Graduate Employability Rankings 2022, the most well-known global ranking of universities according to the results and employability of graduates. Regarding the QS – Sustainability 2023 ranking, the University of Bucharest is in the first position at national level and in the Impact of Education and Sustainable Research subfields. “Given the multitude of international rankings and classifications, sometimes relevant, sometimes inconsistent, universities increasingly need valid and objective criteria regarding the learning process and academic activity. One such relevant criterion is the quality of the graduates, most often measurable in the employability and level of competitiveness and salary of the graduates. The labor market, whether we mean private companies or the non-profit sector, researchers and teachers or practitioners of any kind, is the place of impersonal competition where the best and most efficient graduates are hired and paid accordingly. From our perspective, the comparison by fields of employability and salaries is the only ranking that cannot be disputed because it measures results and not means”, noted prof. Marian Preda, Phd, Rector of the University of Bucharest.
Informatics, Law, Psychology and Educational Sciences, among the fields in which UB graduates have the highest salaries
According to the data correlated between REVISAL and the Matriculation Register (RMU) existing in the system for monitoring the employability of higher education graduates (https://angajabilitate.uefiscdi.ro), developed on the basis of the National Questionnaire on the Employability of Higher Education Graduates (CNAAIS), The University of Bucharest has the best paid graduates among the comprehensive universities, with an average salary of approximately 5,600 lei – more precisely 5,595.5 lei, 5 years after graduation. In the top of the salaries obtained by graduates, the University of Bucharest is followed by the West University of Timișoara and the “Babeș-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca. The system for monitoring the employability of higher education graduates is managed by UEFISCDI. If at the level of all studied fields, the average salary obtained by the graduates of the University of Bucharest is approximately 5,600 lei, the graduates of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics have, on average, a salary of 17,692 lei. The maximum salary recorded in the National Questionnaire on the Employability of Higher Education Graduates by graduates of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bucharest is 33,171 lei. Regarding graduates of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest, the average salary obtained by them and declared in the National Questionnaire on the Employability of Higher Education Graduates amounts to 7,400 lei, while the maximum salary is 17,808 lei. Also, graduates of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Bucharest obtain, according to the aggregated data of UEFISCDI, average salaries of approximately 5,500 – 6,000 lei: for the field of Psychology, the average salary is 5,958 lei, and the maximum 14,529, as for the field of Educational Sciences, the average salary is 5,667 lei, and the maximum 10,202 lei.
“Over the years, the University of Bucharest has assumed the mission of adapting the learning process to the demands and needs of the labor market. Starting from the premise that the fast integration of graduates on the labor market is the main task that a university must fulfill and the most important duty towards its students, the University of Bucharest has developed in recent years the area of partnerships both with various private companies and with nonprofit organizations, providing its students with real-world, applied practice opportunities. As such, it is no surprise to us that the employability and salary chart proves that our graduates are more than successful in many fields in the competition for the best-paid positions in various companies and organizations, thus contributing to the development of the Romanian society”, added prof. Marian Preda, PhD, rector of the University of Bucharest.
The achievements of the graduates of the University of Bucharest, recognized both nationally and internationally
Over 58% of the candidates admitted in law are graduates of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest. Thus, following the announcement of the results of the 2020 admission to the lawyer profession and admission to the National Institute for the Training and Development of Lawyers, 83 of the 143 candidates who were declared admitted to this exam are graduates of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest. Also, almost half of the candidates admitted in 2022 to the National Institute of Magistracy are graduates of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest. Thus, out of the total of 284 admitted candidates, 132 are graduates of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest, representing a percentage of 46.47% of the total. The success of 2022 is part of the upward trend of recent years, when the results of graduates of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest were between 33-38% since 2016. In the previous competition, held between September 2019 and February 2020, the percentage of graduates of the Faculty of Law who occupied one of the positions put out for competition by the National Institute of Magistracy was 42.72%.
Graduates of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Bucharest, founders of some of the most famous IT companies in Romania and in the world
Co-founder and general director of UiPath, Daniel Dineș, a graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Bucharest, has become the Romanian with the greatest wealth, through the approximately 21% he owns in the software robot manufacturer. UiPath, the company he owns with Marius Tîrcă, was listed, starting April 21, 2021, on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2018, at the proposal of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Bucharest, Daniel Dineș received, during the second gala of the UB Senate Awards, the distinction for “Alumnus of the Year”.
Florin Talpeș, co-founder and CEO of Bitdefender, the most exported Romanian product by volume, which protects the digital data of over half a billion users worldwide, also graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Bucharest. With a history of almost 160 years and a constantly confirmed prestige, the University of Bucharest shows a continuous concern both for curricular modernization and innovative pedagogies, as well as for openness to collaboration with the public and private environment, in order to ensure a close connection with the labor market