Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies - ASE
speciality: Computer Science

You have to choose the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics if you want to become a statistical analyst, because it offers you knowledge from theoretical development to research on applied economic problems.

The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies is by far the best university in Romania specializing in Economics, Business and everything around them.

The quality of the education is really high and a degree from this university weighs a lot in Romania, given its prestige. However, in my opinion, a lot of things need to be improved. Although things here are way better than at other prestigious universities in Romania, they can definitely be better. On a cost / benefits analysis, the tuition fees are too high for the facilities it offers. ASE has many buildings, but only two of them are decent. There are some modern classrooms in the others as well, but they are usually sponsored by a private company and they’re locked most of the time. Basically, you must be very lucky to get to study in those classrooms. The ordinary classrooms don’t have a video projector, which is more than necessary. The teachers are well prepared and mostly open minded, but from time to time you can also see some frustrated teachers who left their mind back in the times of communism.

Fortunately, ASE has a very good feedback programme and at the end of every semester the students can fill it 100% anonymously. However, measures based on the feedbacks are only taken on new teachers, not on the ones who worked here for a lot of time.

I highly recommend this university if you want to study economic studies in Romania, because it’s the only decent option. I still hope, though, that they will want to offer something more than decent and that they will take all the necessary measures to come to the 21st century.

P.S.: The teachers need to check their emails more than once a month, they need to learn to answer those emails as well and some of the secretaries really need to learn some manners!
P.P.S.: I also hope they will take care of their English websites and that they will try to attract more foreign students.
P.P.P.S.: Again, I also hope that they will try to sign Erasmus partnerships with more universities. At the faculty I’m studying, there are only three or four options. It’s not fair and it seems pretty ignorant.

I like it that it gives us a lot of free time to work and do something else besides going to classes, but I think the teachers here could be more interested in teaching us, showing us new techniques, not the ones used years ago and inspire us.
Also, it would be more useful if we were doing things that are closer to our reality, more practical.

I am happy to come to classes and learn things to help me in the day to day. I think it was the best choice to come to this university.

I recommend the university with confidence to all those who want to learn economic cybernetics, as employment opportunities extend over an extended range of fields.

For the last 2 years while I studied in ASE I had some pretty interesting experiences.
The professors are 100% competent and involved in anything to do with university activities.
The students’ syndicate is very active and always has great projects for the students.

The location is great, also.

I studied Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics and I can say that these three years have helped me improve my programming skills, I learned a lot about the statistics area, the ability to process data and access databases in economical contexts. To sum up, in my opinion, it is a good faculty if you like both economics and also have programming skills, but what I dislike is the large amount of theory instead of practice, the unprofessional behaviour of some professors and the fact that maybe more than 50% of what you learn here, you won’t use later in your career.

Useful college. I enjoyed every moment of it, learned lots of things which helped me develop strong analytical thinking. I would recommend it to anyone who asks because in the end you got lots of benefits.

ASE is the only university with an economic cybernetic profile in Romania and I’m glad I made this choice from the beginning. I’ve learned a lot of things in the field of economics and cybernetics and I can say that I would love to find a job in this domain, to be able to apply all this knowledge. Teachers from the newer generations are very open-minded and willing to teach us practical things. And the bolognia system that this university practices allows me to take a closer look at my own development side. So, I can say that ASE is trying its best to please us, the students, and I think it has a brighter future ahead.

As a final year student, I can strongly say now that this university helped me a lot. The subjects we have are very useful and they allow you to find a job very fast. You also have opportunities to be an NGO volunteer and to do extracurricular activities.

It is a good university with many specializations. I would love to have more practice because the theoretical aspects are highlighted too much. After graduating, it would help us more. I would also like to use new, systematized methods, new software programs, because life is highly technologicalized.