Sofia University of St. Kliment, Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia University St. Kliment, Ohridski is the first Bulgarian high academic school establishment founded in 1888. Its history is an embodiment and a continuation of the century long cultural and educational tradition of the Bulgarian nation.
Year by year the Sofia University has developed into an important academic and scientific center on the Balkans, a well-developed academic institution with European dimensions.
Today Sofia University, St. Kliment, Ohridski is the largest and most prestigious educational and scientific center in the country. Its main building is situated in the center of the capital. The Faculties of Mathematics and Informatics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Journalism and Mass Communication, Theology, Economics and Business Administration, and Preschool and Primary School Education are spread over several campuses around Sofia.
It has been consistently ranked as the top university in Bulgaria according to national and international rankings, being constantly among the best four percent of world universities according to QS World University Rankings.
Sofia University is the leader in the country in terms of the number of participants in the students and lecturers mobility and the implementation of the idea of European space in the domain of university education. Today it covers a built-up area of 36,000 square meters With 324 premises, 65 of them being lecture theaters with 6,000 seats
The Sofia University maintains Inter-University Agreements with more than 80 universities from various countries, hundreds of joint participations in international projects and multilateral contacts with scholars from all over the world.
Sofia University houses following faculties apart from various independent units and centers:
- Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Biology
- Faculty of Geology and Geography
- Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
- Faculty of Physics
- Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
- Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Faculty of Educational studies and Arts
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Philosophy
- Faculty of History
Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski has become one of the most highly reputable centers of science on the Balkans, a full-fledged university of the European type. Today Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski is the biggest and most prestigious scientific hub in the country. It has 16 faculties with 119 special subjects being taught.
Within the structure of Sofia University the following main structures are included: the Faculty of Slavonic Philology, the Faculty of Classical and Contemporary Philology, the Faculty of History, the Faculty of Philosophy, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Educational Studies and the Arts, the Faculty of Geology and Geography, the Faculty of Physics, the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, the Faculty of Biology, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, the Faculty of Theology, the Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Information and Training of Teachers, the Department for Language Teaching and the Department of Sports.
Within the framework of Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski there are several independent units: the University Library, the University Press with a printing house, a University Center for Information and Communication Technologies, a Science Research Sector, the University Botanic Gardens
There are also several centers: the Professor Ivan Duychev Center of Byzantine Studies; the Center for Educational Services; the Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures; the Center for Korean Studies; a Career Center; a Cultural Center; a EURAXESS center for the Mobility of Scholars; a Cisco Net Academy at Sofia University; a Research Center of Patristic and Byzantine Spiritual Heritage; a Confucius Institute; an Approved Test Centre for the Oxford Test of English; The University Center for Religious Research; the French-German Center for Applied Research in Economics and Management; the Center for Online Education; the University Center for the Management of Quality; the Center of the Technologies of the Information Society; the Center for Economic Policy and Scientific Research; the High Technology Business Center at Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski; the Center of Economics and Politics of China; Rehabilitation Centers; the Polar Research Center, the Laboratory Theater, the Sofia University Museum; the Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology; the Museum of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Ores and Minerals.