Education
Sibiu is an important centre of higher education, with over 34,000 undergraduate students in 2007 (counting for almost one fourth of the entire population).
The Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu was founded in 1990, with five faculties: Engineering and Sciences; Letters; History and Law; Medicine; Food and Textile Processing Technology. Nowadays, it has many departments.
- Andrei Şaguna Faculty of Theology
- Faculty of Letters and Arts
- Nicolae Lupu Faculty of History and Patrimony
- Simion Bărnuţiu Faculty of Law
- Hermann Oberth Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Political Sciences,International Relations,European Studies ( recently added Security Service )
- Victor Papilian Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy
- Faculty of Sciences
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Journalism
- Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Food Industry and Environmental Protection
- The University College
- Department for Distance and E-Learning
Sibiu also houses the Nicolae Bălcescu Land Forces Military Academy, the Foreign Language Center as well as some private universities.
In Sibiu there are 20 educational institutions on the secondary level, the most prestigious of which are:
- Gheorghe Lazăr National College - mainly sciences and informatics, with some bilingual classes, first opened in 1692 as a Jesuit College
- Samuel von Brukenthal National College - German language high school
- Octavian Goga National College - social sciences, sciences and informatics
- Onisifor Ghibu Theoretical Highschool - informatics, social sciences and sports
- Andrei Şaguna National College - training for schoolteachers, informatics, social sciences and sports
- Constantin Noica Theoretical Highschool - social sciences and sciences
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