Faculty of Juridical, Political and Administrative Sciences

The Faculty of Juridical, Political and Administrative Sciences (The former Faculty of Law) of “Edward” University was set up for Law Major – subsequently accredited under the same Act as the University.

Implementing the 3-Cycle model (Undergraduate, Master and Doctoral studies) adopted by the international universities, signatory of the Bologna Process, we provide the following undergraduate and Master programmes in English:

–          Law – 4.year undergraduate studies (240 ECTS), full-time and part-time education – Accredited;

–          Public Administration – 3.year undergraduate studies (180 ECTS), full-time education – Accredited;

–      International Relations and European Studies – 3.year undergraduate studies (180 ECTS), full-time education – Accredited; part-time education – Authorized; distance-learning – Authorized;

–          Local Police – 3.year undergraduate studies (180 ECTS), full-time education – Authorized;

–          Criminal sciences – 1.year Master’s (60 ECTS), full-time education – Accredited.

Legal framework and status of the accredited / authorised undergraduate and Master programmes (for a five years period):

–          GR no. 376/2016 ( Part I, no. 413 of 1st June 2016, annex 3, no. 6, position 13) for the under-graduate programmes, and GR no. 402/2016 (Part I, no. 453 of 16 June 2016, annex 2, no. 6/3), for the master programme;

–          GR no. 575/2015 (Part I, no. 554 bis of 27 July 2015, annex 2, no. 6, position 14) for the under-graduate, and GR no. 778/2015 (Part I, no. 723 bis of 25 September 2015, annex 2, no. 4), for the master programme;

–          GR no. 580/2014 (Part I, no. 527 of 16 July 2014, annex 3, no. 6, position 4) for the under-graduate programmes, and GR no. 582/2014 (Part I, no. 538 of 21 July 2014, annex 2, no. 4), for the master programme;

–          GR no. 493/2013 (Part I, no. 447 of 22 July 2013, annex 3, no. 6, position 2) for the under-graduate programmes, and GR no. 581/2013 (Part I, no. 500 of 8 August 2013, annex 2, no. 15), for the master programme;

–          GR no. 707 / 2012 (Part I, no. 525 of 30 July 2012) for the under-graduate programmes, and Decision of the Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports no. 4945 / 2012 (Part I, no. 564 of 9 August 2012) for the master programme.

  1. GENERAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

The managerial team and the academia of the Faculty of Juridical, Political and Administrative Sciences provide the meeting of the following teaching and research objectives:

a) Teaching:

–          providing best training conditions for all full-time and part-time students through an efficient and transparent management;

–          adopting the quality principle in teaching, implementing and maintaining the performance standards, criteria and indicators for quality assurance in education;

–          aligning to other national and foreign top universities in point of curricula and syllabi;

–          student-centred teaching / learning;

–          training the students to observe the human fundamental rights and freedoms, dignity, mutual understanding, tolerance and collaboration;

–          increased B.Sc. graduate and Master graduate employment rates in all legal and public administration areas.

b) Research:

–          stimulating the students’ and professors’ creative thinking and skills, resulting in highly scientific legal articles, studies and papers;

–          improving the work within research institutional structures (student clubs, Legal Research Centre, Centres of Excellence and the like);

–          the academia, students and Master candidates engaging in research work and signing partnerships with national and foreign universities, research institutes and economic – social and legal units;

–          recognition of the academic community research performances at national and international levels within congresses, symposia and in accredited publications / publications with national and international indexation;

–          Identifying and providing funding resources for the expansion and permanent improvement of the material resources for advanced research.