Master Admission

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Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Computing taught in English

• budget places: 18
• places fee: 12

Intelligence Software Robotics taught in English

• budget places: 17
• places fee: 13

Big Data taught in English

• budget places: 20
• places fee: 20

Cybersecurity taught in English

• budget places: 24
• places fee: 16

Bioinformatics taught in Romanian

• budget places: 10
• places fee: 10

Software Engineering taught in Romanian

• budget places: 22
• places fee: 18

Analytical and geometric modeling of systems taught in Romanian

• budget places: 15
• places fee: 35

Financial mathematics taught in Romanian

• budget places: 15
• places fee: 35

(1) At the West University of Timisoara, the application fee for admission to the admission to master’s degree programs is 200 lei and the registration fee is 150 lei, in accordance with the legal provisions in force. The application fee for the admission competition is payable only once per faculty, regardless of the number of master’s degree programs for which the candidate has applied within the same faculty. If the candidate has enrolled in undergraduate programs in different faculties, he/she will pay the application fee for each faculty. If the candidate enrolls and wishes to pursue two Master’s degree programs simultaneously at UVT, he/she shall submit an application on the admission platform for each of these programs and pay the corresponding tuition fee for each of them. These fees are published on the website of the West University of Timisoara.

(2) The categories of candidates exempted from paying the application fee for the admission process to the Master’s program, based on the supporting documents uploaded on the online admission platform, are:

• The children of all staff in pre-university education (teaching, auxiliary and non-teaching staff) in active employment or retired;
• the children of all university education staff (teaching staff, teaching assistants, non-teaching staff and staff in central university libraries) in active employment or retired;
• all staff in higher education and central university libraries;
• candidates with one or both parents deceased, as well as candidates from single-parent families;
• Applicants from foster care / social protection system; candidates who are at risk of losing the ability to meet their daily living needs due to illness (proved by a medical certificate certifying a chronic condition), disability (proved by the appropriate certificate), poverty (proving that he/she has received a social scholarship in the last year of undergraduate studies, in the case of candidates who graduated from the current class of undergraduate studies, or by other supporting documents that have received financial support from the Romanian state), according to the decision of the admissions committee at the faculty level;
• athletes with outstanding performances (athletes of CSU-UVT, of sports clubs and departments with which UVT has cooperation agreements, medallists at national, European and world competitions – at the proposal of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport); candidates who were declared heads of class (class 2024) at the level of a bachelor degree program at the West University of Timisoara (UVT).

(3) Athletes with outstanding performances (athletes of CSU-UVT, of sports clubs and departments with which UVT has cooperation agreements, medallists at national, European and world competitions – at the proposal of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport) and candidates who were declared class valedictorians (class of 2024) at the level of a bachelor degree program at the West University of Timisoara (UVT) are exempt from the registration fee for master’s degree studies.

(4) The exemption from payment of these fees is based only on the supporting documents uploaded by the candidates on the online admission platform and submitted in original at the points of collection of documents required for the admission process at the UVT headquarters or at the county admission centers organized by UVT and any additional criteria provided in the regulations on the organization and conduct of the admission process at the level of the UVT faculties. Approval of the exemption is made by the admissions committees at faculty level by validating them on the online admissions platform. Faculties, by their own regulations, may not establish other categories of candidates to benefit from fee reductions/discounts related to the admission process.

(5) The application fee paid will not be refunded if the candidate no longer wishes to complete the admission process or if his/her application is invalidated/rejected for administrative or academic reasons. In the case of unjustified payment of an application fee (eg: in the case of payment of more than one fee in order to apply for more than one undergraduate degree program within the same faculty or if the candidate was eligible for fee exemption), that fee may be refunded to the candidate upon request, based on a request submitted to that effect through an online form made available by the UVT, or may be used for another application to the UVT in the admission sessions for the same academic year, the candidate presenting proof of payment on the online admission platform. The fee may only be returned to an account held by the candidate.

(6) Candidates from non-EU countries of the European Union, the European Economic Area, the Swiss Confederation and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland pay an application fee of 75 euro (for the processing of the application file for the admissions organization).

(7) Upon confirmation of the place obtained in the admission contest, in accordance with the admission process timetable mentioned in the regulations on the organization and conduct of the admission process at the UVT faculties, the candidates declared admitted pay the registration fee.

(8) The registration fee paid is not refunded if the candidate no longer wishes to occupy the place obtained after the admission process/ withdraws from the studies. In case of unjustified payment of a registration fee (e.g. if the candidate was eligible for a fee waiver), the fee may be refunded. To the candidate, on request, on the basis of an application submitted via an online form provided by the UVT. The fee can only be returned to an account held by the candidate.

(9) Until July 31, 2024, for the July admission session, respectively until September 17, 2024, for the September admission session, students admitted to the Master’s degree cycle on fee-paying places are obliged to pay 30% of the annual tuition fee. In case of non-payment within the deadline, the student will lose his/her place.

(10) If, following the process of confirmation and redistribution of places, a student who was initially declared admitted to a place with tuition fee is transferred to a place without tuition fee, the amount paid, corresponding to the 30 percent of the annual tuition fee, will be refunded, based on a request submitted by the student through an online form provided by UVT. Tuition fees can only be returned to an account held by the student who has been declared admitted.

(11) If a candidate withdraws from the tuition fee place obtained as a result of the admission process before the starting date of the academic year (30.09.2024), he/she may apply for a refund of the first installment of the tuition fee he/she paid (30%) until the end of the current calendar year at the latest.

(12) Students concurrently enrolled in two different undergraduate programs at the West University of Timisoara are entitled, upon request and with supporting documents, to a 50% reduction of the tuition fee for the undergraduate program for which they are enrolled in fee. If both undergraduate degree programs are taken on a fee-paying basis, a 25% reduction will be applied for each degree program in which they are enrolled. The same reduction of 50% of the tuition fee also applies to students who, within a maximum of nine years after graduating from a degree program at the West University of Timisoara, enroll in another degree program organized by the university, at the same undergraduate cycle as the one graduated at the UVT. The reduction is applied only once for each year of study in which the student is in this situation, on the basis of an application accompanied by supporting documents and submitted to the Student InfoCenter within 10 working days from the start of the academic year.

(13) Students with special social circumstances, students from foster care / social protection system, students with special educational needs or disabilities, as well as athletes with outstanding performance can benefit from study grants that can cover all or part of the tuition fee, upon request. The applications will be analyzed at the faculty level for the fulfillment of the criteria and then submitted to the central scholarships committee for its opinion.

(14) Romanian state scholarship students do not pay tuition fees.