The Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski is the first higher educational institution in Bulgaria. Its history is an embodiment and a continuation of centuries of cultural and educational tradition in this country.Public teaching activities in Bulgaria date back to the second half of the 9th century.During the Bulgarian Renaissance a new idea for opening a School of Higher Education was conceived.
Year by year the Sofia University has developed into an important academic and scientific center on the Balkans, a well developed academic institution with European dimensions. Today Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski is the largest and most prestigious educational and scientific center in the country.
Sofia University research activity has been developing under the Strategy for Scientific Research (2009-2014) established by the academia. It identifies the priority research areas, following Sofia University tradition to ensure freedom of choosing particular research goals to the lecturers at the same time. Project funding has won recognition as the main instrument for supporting scientific research. Today, Sofia University takes an active part in a number of projects funded by national and European programmes, by ministries, national agencies, NGOs and business enterprises.
The Global Student Satisfaction Awards empower students across the globe to determine the best universities of 2019. By rating institutions on a scale from 1 to 5, on multiple studies-related questions, we found the top educators in the world.
Learn more about the Global Student Satisfaction AwardsNowadays the University Library possesses a rich multidisciplinary fund that numbers more than 2 510 000 library entries including both scientific literature and study manuals, some rare and valuable publications, well stocked periodicals, e-publications, etc.
The name of the program is "applied mathematics" but it should only be "mathematics". The professors here don't make a difference between applied and pure mathematics, so we study mostly pure. Furthermore, the teaching level is terrible, so basically I have to study everything on my own. The only good thing here is that the material and the curriculum are actually harsh,...
It's good but I want something more and experience new things
The atmosphere is not what I expected, including my colleagues, my teachers. In the beginning our English teacher, having in mind that some of his students don’t know English, said that this is not his problem. Finally, without even going to our classroom (ALL students standing like idiots in the corridor, 15 mins after the class has started) he told us to go. And that was...