Legal Framework

The “Vasile Goldiș” Western University of Arad is a higher education institution, a legal entity under private law and of community interest, part of the national education system, autonomous, both from an academic and economic-financial point of view, having as its foundation the private ownership, guaranteed by the Romanian Constitution, it was established in 1990, accredited by Law no. 240/2002 and periodically evaluated by ARACIS and AHPGS.

The “Vasile Goldiș” Western University of Arad was founded in 1990, with the aim of promoting the values of education, research and the relationship with society, under the sign of the academic community, capitalizing the institutional culture and perpetuating national and universal values. The “Vasile Goldiș” Western University of Arad provides education and research services in the field of scientific knowledge and her ideal is to use of academic values for the purpose of personal development, the individual’s professional insertion and to satisfy the need for competence of the socio- economic environment.

The initiative to establish the “Vasile Goldiș” Western University of Arad belonged to the late prof. Dr. AUREL ARDELEAN, PhD, founding rector of the “Vasile Goldiș” Western University of Arad and founding president of the “Vasile Goldiș” Arad University Foundation.

THE “VASILE GOLDIȘ” WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF ARAD MISSION

The mission undertaken by the University is education and scientific research, in order to generate and transfer knowledge to society, through:

university and postgraduate initial and continuous training for undergraduate, doctoral students and trainees, as well as for the alumni’s insertion on the labor market and for addressing the need for competence of the socio-economic environment;
scientific research, development, innovation, and technology transfer through individual and collective creation in the fields of sciences specific to the accredited/provisionally authorized study programs, especially in the fields: biomedical, legal, socio-human, and economic, as well as by ensuring physical and sports performance and development, capitalizing and disseminating research results;
involvement in the community, by conducting joint activities for the benefit of the University and the social, economic, and cultural environment;
internationalization, as a tool to increase the quality of education and research.

The University promotes and develops fundamental and applied scientific research in the fields of interest, in order to contribute to the progress of knowledge, capitalization and dissemination of its results, therefore participating in the consolidation and affirmation of the culture and civilization which are integrated in the European space.

Why Vasile Goldis?

The university bears the name of the spiritual patron Vasile Goldiș, being one of the coryphaei and ideologue of the Great Union from December 1, 1918, who stated that “only cultural-educational institutions, in which the basic role is education, are meant to contribute to the affirmation of a people in a national democracy“.

Thus, the founding rector prof. AUREL ARDELEAN, PhD, was the one who “fulfilled the dream of the Arad people to have higher education” in the city, as Vasile Goldiș expressed his wish at the beginning of the last century, right in the Budapest Parliament.

The academic community of the “Vasile Goldiș” Western University of Arad undertakes to carry on the legacy left by the late founding rector, Prof. AUREL ARDELEAN, PhD, to the city and county of Arad, relying on excellence, flexibility and the quality of the educational act, as testified by the generations of graduates well inserted in the labor market.