University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Tîrgu Mureș

University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Tîrgu Mureș (UMFST) works under this name starting 20.09.2018, according to the Government Decision no. 735/2018 of 13 September 2018, as a result of the merger of two Romanian prestigious universities in Tîrgu Mureș, namely University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tîrgu Mureș and „Petru Maior” University of Tîrgu Mureș.

 Medical education in Tîrgu Mureș began in 1945, when the Faculty of Medicine was founded as a branch of the Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca. In 1948, after the Education Reform, this was transformed into the Medical and Pharmaceutical Institute of Tîrgu Mureș, and in 1991, the Institute was given the name of University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tîrgu Mureș. The University functioned as a public institution with legal status, being the only university in the field of healthcare where teaching is in Romanian, Hungarian and English. The years passed since the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tîrgu Mureș has been founded has meant the necessary time to define its own identity. By tradition, it has become a landmark in the Romanian medical life.

 „Petru Maior” University, part of Romania’s education system, functioned as a state institution for higher education and vocational training created in 1961 as a result of the need of specialists in Mureș region in various fields demanded by the labor market. It had recognised experience in all areas of the training cycle by collecting clients needs on the market, design of adequate educational curricula, course implementation and evaluation, in the three faculties: Engineering, Science and Letters, Economics and Law, but also in the Continuous Education Centre oriented on development of activities related to the classical educational programs through complex initial and continuing vocational training, as a vocational training institute at tertiary level.

 At present University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Tîrgu Mureș (UMFST) brings together the competences of the two universities that fused, being a public multicultural institution of higher education and research.

 UMFST provides instruction in the following fields: medical, pharmaceutical in Romanian, Hungarian and English, technical, economic and social fields in Romanian (engineering, economics, law, philology, history, administrative science, mathematics, information technology, socio-pedagogy).

 It is composed of six faculties: The Faculty of Medicine, The Faculty of Dentistry, The Faculty of Pharmacy, The Faculty of Engineering, The Faculty of Sciences and Letters, The Faculty of Economics and Law in which graduates of study programs can benefit from different levels of academic degrees: bachelor, master’s, doctoral.

In its current structure, the UMFST has 10,726 students and 739 teachers. International cooperation with over 100 universities from different countries had a substantial contribution to the development of scientific research and evidence-based medicine, in the same time with the initiation and development of a curricular reform process in our university.

 UMFST has 24 research centers and publishes 14 international scientific journals that are indexed in various scientific databases including also WoS Clarivate Analytics.