The University of Bucharest (Romanian: Universitatea din București), in Romania, is a university founded in 1864 by decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Saint Sava Academy into the current University of Bucharest.
In the 2012 QS World University Rankings it was included in Top 200 universities of the world (151-200 band).
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“It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.”
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“I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.”
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