The Plovdiv University “Paisiy Hilendarski” is a university located in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It was founded in 1962 and has nine faculties.
The University provides training in all educational levels – specialist, bachelor, master and doctor. College education or a college degree “specialist” may continue their studies at the University, “University of Plovdiv” or its subsidiaries after the competition for a number of places in undergraduate programs announced.
Plovdiv University, named in honor of the Bulgarian historian Paisiy Hilendarski, is the city’s leading cultural and scientific institution. It is the largest institution of higher education in Southern Bulgaria, and the third largest Bulgarian university, after St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia and St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo. The year 2001 marks the university’s fortieth anniversary.
In 1945 the Plovdiv University was inaugurated by a Decree of the Regents’ Council of August the 4th, promulgated the same year in the State Gazette of August 20, structured in two Faculties: of Medicine and of Agriculture and Forestry[1], which in July 1961 was reorganized as Higher Teacher-Training Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. The Institute was promoted to university status by government decree on 12 January 1972, when it took its present name “Paisiy Hilendarski” Plovdiv University.
Library
Plovdiv University Library was founded in 1961 with the founding of the University. The library fund is built according to the needs of the University as part of the national library. Contains some 280 000 library paper of all fields of science.
Courses Offered
Faculty
Contact Details
Plovdiv University
8, Kliment Ohridski Boulevard
Sofia
1756 Sofija grad
Tel: +359 (2) 965 2111
Fax: +359 (2) 868 3215
Plovdiv University Official Website: hhttp://www.uni-plovdiv.bg/