Transfer from Titu Maiorescu University: Where to Continue Medicine in 2026

What is Titu Maiorescu University and what does it teach in English?

Titu Maiorescu University (Universitatea Titu Maiorescu) is a private, accredited university in Bucharest, Romania, which acquired legal personality on 20 September 1990. Its Faculty of Medicine, founded in the same year, runs General Medicine over six years and 360 ECTS, taught in Romanian and in English. The university also holds faculties of Dental Medicine and of Pharmacy.

The legal frame is easy to check. Titu Maiorescu University became a legal entity of public utility governed by private law under Law no. 239 of 23 April 2002. The General Medicine programme was accredited by Government Decision no. 944, published in the Official Gazette no. 675 of 11 September 2002, and the faculty reports an ARACIS accreditation in 2015 with the top rating of trust. The university itself received the highest institutional qualification from the Romanian quality assurance agency in June 2012.

Nine faculties sit across several sites in the capital. For a medical student, the practical points are the six-year structure, the 360 ECTS, and the fact that the English track exists as a full programme rather than a side option.

Can you transfer from Titu Maiorescu University to another medical university?

Yes. A student enrolled in Medicine at Titu Maiorescu University in Bucharest, Romania can move to another medical university abroad and continue with the credits already earned. Medschool Experts is the leading specialist for study transfers in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine, and places students across the world’s largest choice of official partner universities.

What we look at is your record, not your CV. Which semesters are complete, which exams are passed, how many ECTS sit behind each of them. As a rule of thumb, usually no more than two exams may still be outstanding, and the ECTS attached to them has to stay below a maximum. Beyond that, every case is its own case.

Why do students transfer from Titu Maiorescu University?

Five reasons come up again and again, and none of them is a complaint about Titu Maiorescu University in Bucharest, Romania. Cost planning. Exam fit. Personal or organisational circumstances. A career goal in the United States. A career goal in Germany. Each of the five points towards a different kind of destination university, which is why the answer is never one address for everyone.

Cost planning. Six years of English-taught Medicine in Bucharest add up. Using the official 2026–2027 fee list, the EU, EEA and Swiss rate totals €63,500 in tuition across the six years, and the rate for students outside that category totals €77,500. Add Bucharest living costs of roughly €600–900 per month and the picture becomes concrete. At the Faculty of Medicine in Foca, part of the University of East Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, tuition is €3,500 per year and the all-in figure is about €7,500 per year including living costs (Medschool Experts figures, 2026). Several other partner universities sit in a similar range.

Exam fit. Some students hit a wall on one or two specific subjects while everything else runs fine. A university with a different examination format and a different pace can open up the rest of the degree. This is the part of our work we know best.

Personal and organisational reasons. Difficulties with an individual professor, a family situation, a move, a health matter in the family — things that have nothing to do with ability and everything to do with whether you can keep going where you are.

Career goal United States. Caribbean medical schools are built to feed the United States system, with USMLE preparation, United States clinical rotations and residency applications in view. Inside Europe, Mostar School of Medicine in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the only university that specifically prepares for the USMLE, Step 1 for the preclinical part and Step 2 CK for the clinical part. It teaches in small groups, with a better teacher-to-student ratio than other European medical schools, and has only 30 places a year. We place students there reliably and without an entrance test, as long as our own quota allows.

Career goal Germany. Some universities prepare unusually well for a German career. The University of East Sarajevo in Foca is one. EU universities such as the Medical University of Varna in Bulgaria are another, and from Varna students can complete the final practical year in Germany through Medschool Experts. The same is possible from Foca.

Where can Titu Maiorescu University students transfer to?

The destination follows the goal. A student of Titu Maiorescu University in Bucharest, Romania who wants a lower total cost goes somewhere different from one aiming at a residency in the United States. Medschool Experts matches your transcript against the whole partner network and names the universities where the highest entry year is realistic. The table sorts the common goals.

Three limits are worth naming plainly. Medicine and dentistry are taught in Foca, so dentistry students have a route there too. Mostar School of Medicine and the Caribbean schools are medicine options only. And Varna covers medicine, dentistry and pharmacy. You can see the full list on our university overview.

How much can a Titu Maiorescu University student save by transferring?

Take a student who has finished three years of English-taught Medicine at Titu Maiorescu University in Bucharest, Romania and enters year four elsewhere. At the official 2026–2027 EU, EEA and Swiss rate, years four to six in Bucharest cost €26,500 in tuition. At the Faculty of Medicine in Foca the same three years cost €10,500 in tuition. Living costs widen the gap further.

Roughly €25,000 to €36,000 over three years, then, for the EU rate. For a student paying the non-EU rate the difference is larger again, because years four to six there come to €31,500 in tuition alone. Numbers like these are the reason many students ask us to run the comparison before they decide anything.

One caution on the fee list. The euro amounts in the EU, EEA and Swiss category are billed in Romanian lei at the National Bank rate, so the sum you actually pay moves a little with the exchange rate. Ask the university for your own year and category in writing.

Which study year can you enter after leaving Titu Maiorescu University?

There is no fixed ceiling. Medschool Experts frequently achieves high placements, often year four or year five, and the aim is always the highest possible entry with no loss of time or minimal loss of time. Every case is reviewed individually, because the answer depends on your transcript, not on a rule that applies to everyone.

What guides the review is simple. Usually no more than two exams may be outstanding, and the ECTS behind them has to stay below a maximum. Beyond that we compare your completed subjects with the curriculum of each candidate university and look for the year where you slot in cleanly. Sometimes that is higher than students expect.

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How does a transfer from Titu Maiorescu University work with Medschool Experts?

Four steps, in order. A free consultation about your situation and your goal, a review of your academic record, a concrete placement offer naming universities and the highest possible study year, and then the switch itself with a plan behind it. Throughout, you stay enrolled at Titu Maiorescu University in Bucharest, Romania until the new place is confirmed.

We do not publish document checklists, deadlines or entrance-exam formats here, because they differ by university and by year and go out of date fast. Send us your profile instead. We check it against the partner network and tell you what is realistic. You can read what that looked like for other students in our student stories, and see the scope of our work under services.

Is a medical degree from Titu Maiorescu University recognised across the European Union?

Romania is a member of the European Union, and medical degrees from accredited Romanian universities are automatically recognised throughout the EU. Titu Maiorescu University in Bucharest holds Romanian accreditation for its General Medicine programme. Graduates who want to practise outside the EU — in the United States, Canada or Australia — meet the licensing requirements of that country instead.

This matters when you choose a destination. Inside the EU, a degree from a country such as Bulgaria carries the same automatic recognition, which is why the Medical University of Varna suits students who want to stay on EU rails. A degree from a university outside the EU, such as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is recognised in an EU country through that country’s own recognition procedure rather than automatically. That route is well travelled and entirely workable — it is simply a different path, and the planning differs.

We flag this at the first conversation rather than at the end. If your goal is Germany, a residency in the United States, or a licence somewhere else entirely, the recognition route belongs in the decision from day one.

When should Titu Maiorescu University students start planning a transfer?

Earlier than most people think. A student at Titu Maiorescu University in Bucharest, Romania who is weighing a move should have the comparison in hand before the next academic year is invoiced and before a resit reshapes the transcript. Placements are also quota-bound at some universities, Mostar among them, with only 30 places a year.

There is no wrong moment to ask. Students contact us in the middle of a semester, right after results, and in the summer between years. What changes with timing is how much room we have to work with, not whether a transfer is possible.

Send the transcript. That is the whole first step.