Titu Maiorescu tops the list with an English-language Medicine program for non-EU students: 13,500 euros in year one, according to the tuition regulation approved by the Senate for 2026-2027. It's the highest tuition fee in the country, not just in the capital. The amount doesn't stay fixed through the six years — it drops annually, down to 8,000 euros by year six.

Romanian and EU students pay less for the same degree. Their fee also starts at 13,500 euros in year one, but drops to 12,500 in year two, then to 11,000, 10,000 and 8,500, ending at 8,000 euros in the final year — while non-EU students stay on the higher track, from 16,500 down to 9,500. The declining structure tracks the actual teaching load: more clinical hours and lab time in the early years, more independent clerkship work later on.

On the Romanian-language track, a non-EU student pays 13,500 euros in year one, falling to 8,000 by year six. A Romanian or EU citizen starts at 10,000 euros, easing down toward 6,500 in the final year.

English-language Dental Medicine follows the same downward curve: 13,500 euros in year one for Romanian and EU students, ending at 7,000 in year six; for non-EU students, the fee opens at 16,500 euros and closes at 9,000.

Carol Davila, the priciest public option

Unlike private universities, which set their own tuition with few constraints, Carol Davila kept its prices unchanged for the 2026-2027 academic year. That doesn't make it cheap. A tuition-paying spot in General Medicine or Dentistry costs 19,000 lei a year, the highest figure charged by any public university in the country for a fully Romanian-taught program. Pharmacy sits at 10,000 lei, Midwifery and General Nursing at 8,000. International students pay 10,000 euros annually for Medicine, regardless of citizenship.

The gap between Titu Maiorescu and Carol Davila comes down to status, not the substance of the degree. Both are ARACIS-accredited, but one runs on private-market pricing while the other stays tied to the fee grid set by the ministry.

ASE, Politehnica and the University of Bucharest: cheaper, but climbing

Nothing in the public sector comes close to Medicine's numbers, but 2026 brought noticeable increases across most of the capital's major faculties.

At ASE, Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics, foreign-language Business Administration, and the new Applied Artificial Intelligence in Economics program jumped from 7,000 to 10,000 lei a year. The rest of the faculties settled somewhere between 6,500 and 7,500 lei. Non-EU students pay 3,500 euros a year, almost regardless of program.

The University of Bucharest set a flat fee of 8,000 lei for most programs, with one exception: Law, at 8,800 lei. First-year students still get a break — the effective year-one fee drops to 5,500-5,900 lei at most faculties, before climbing in later years.

At Politehnica, the average tuition-paying undergraduate spot runs around 10,000 lei a year, with sharp differences between programs. Acting and General Nursing sit at the top of that range, at 10,000 lei, while the Bucharest University Center overall starts from 6,200 lei.

Not every private university in Bucharest is expensive. Nicolae Titulescu University, for one, charges less for Law than the public universities do for the same degree. And across the humanities — Literature, History, and similar programs anywhere in the capital — tuition rarely tops 5,000 lei a year, public or private.

University leaderships attribute this year's increases to inflation and the rising cost of lab equipment and medical simulators. For Medicine students, especially those from outside the EU, the annual bill can already exceed the cost of renting an apartment for a full year in central Bucharest.

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