Victor Babes UMF Timisoara, Timis County

University Motto : “A University lives by its students and its staff”
"A University wins its prestige by the academic atmosphere
and by the achievements of life it presents in front of the world."

History and Foundation

The school was founded as a modest faculty on 30 December 1944.

The inauguration of the Medical School took place on 15 July 1945and classes started 3 days later in the Notre Dame building (today the Students' House).

There were 412 students enrolled in the first year and 76 students in the second year, transferred from other universities, compared with 4237 students in the academic year 2000-2001.

The first class graduated in 1949, counting 70 graduate students. Ever since its foundation, the Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Timisoara has provided medical education for 24.366 students out of which 4284 foreigners, from over 40 countries from all continents.

Today, there are 4273 students studying General Medicine in English – 6 years at the University, 1108 of them are foreigners coming from : Albania, Austria, Bosnia, Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Ghana, Hungary, India, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Lesotho, Lebanon, Republic of Macedonia, Morocco, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Moldova, United States of America, United Kingdom, Syria, Sudan, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine, Yemen, Serbia, Montenegro.

Clinical Teachings & Hospital Rotations

The clinical teaching started initially in 4 hospitals, but today, students are being trained in more than 25 university clinics, belonging to 12 hospitals. In time, the evolution of the University was also marked by changes in its title: until 1948 - the Faculty of Medicine; between 1948-1990 - The Institute of Medicine, which immediate after 1948 included three faculties: General Medicine, Pediatrics and Hygiene after 1990 - the University of Medicine and Pharmacy and since 2001 the university proudly bares the name of the savant Victor Babes, who is rooted in Timisoara.

The modest Faculty of Medicine developed and matured in spite of all difficulties it faced throughout time. Today, the Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy is a prestigious institution of higher education, with a past that honors and a promising future that will for sure bring valuable results both in preparing new generations of young physicians, pharmacists and dentists and also in the medical assistance offered to the community.