Universitatea Pedagogică de Stat „Ion Creangă” din Chișinău

Key Highlights

• Public higher-education institution operating in Chișinău
• Founded in 1940 and reorganized as a university in 1992
• Eight faculties spanning education, humanities, arts, STEM, psychology, and geography
• Active bachelor’s and master’s admissions confirmed in August 2026

Student Life & Environment

Student life is distributed across an urban group of teaching buildings and university services rather than concentrated in a single enclosed campus. The university’s 2026 student guide directs students to faculty contacts, student services, library facilities, a sports campus, medical provision, and administrative offices. The Scientific Library supports teaching and research through reading and lending services, electronic discovery tools, an institutional repository, and information-literacy assistance. University-managed housing is available, but a place should not be treated as automatic. For 2026–2027, UPSC required current bachelor’s and master’s students seeking preliminary accommodation to submit category-specific online requests between 6 April and 15 May 2026. New applicants should ask the accommodation commission about their own process, current capacity, allocation priorities, charges, and move-in dates. The university also lists a student counseling and career-guidance directorate, a sports campus, a medical point, and the Ciuleandra folk music and dance ensemble. A career fair held in February 2026 connected prospective graduates with employers, particularly institutions in education, but the university does not publish verified placement or salary outcomes on the cited pages. Students interested in exchanges can consult the international-relations office; participation depends on the opportunities and selection calls available in a given year.

Location & Surroundings

UPSC’s central contact address is 1 Ion Creangă Street, MD-2069, Chișinău. This places students in Moldova’s capital, where government, cultural institutions, schools, employers, and other universities are accessible within the wider city. That setting can be useful for teaching practice, professional networking, research visits, and part-time work, although no specific placement or employment access should be assumed. The university is physically distributed. Its student materials identify several study blocks at or near the Ion Creangă Street address and additional facilities on Cornului Street, Ghenadie Iablocikin Street, and Drumul Viilor. Faculty location therefore matters when assessing a daily commute and proximity to services or housing. The main admissions commission for bachelor’s and master’s study operates at the Ion Creangă Street site, while faculty-specific contacts are published online. International students should plan for an urban, Romanian-speaking environment and confirm the teaching site and language of their chosen program. UPSC does not provide a verified standard travel-time estimate or unified residential-campus description in the cited sources.

Costs & Career Outcomes

UPSC publishes program-level fees rather than one universal tuition figure. For 2026–2027, annual bachelor’s charges for domestic and certain regional applicant categories varied by program and delivery mode. Examples in the official schedule include MDL 9,000 for several full-time geography-related programs, while specialist visual-arts and design options could cost more. The same schedule listed first-year international bachelor’s tuition at €1,800 for most programs, €2,000 for English-taught Psychology, and €3,200 for English-taught Animation. A pre-university preparation course for foreign citizens was listed at €1,700. These figures apply only to the published 2026–2027 categories and should be confirmed before payment. The separate 2026–2027 master’s schedule shows that cost also differs by faculty and format; listed examples include MDL 11,000 for full-time study in several faculties and higher amounts in some fields. Applicants need to distinguish tuition from application, accommodation, materials, transport, and living expenses. The cited housing notice confirms an application process but does not establish a standard room-and-board price, so no total cost of attendance can be calculated reliably. Career preparation is supported through placements, counseling, and employer-facing events. UPSC held a career fair in February 2026 with participation from education-sector institutions. This is relevant for teacher-training students, but it is not evidence of guaranteed employment. No verified graduate salary, placement-rate, or employer-outcome statistics were found in the reviewed official sources.