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Constantin Brâncuși University of Târgu Jiu

university in Târgu Jiu, Romania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ3551393
Source-derived summary

Constantin Brâncuși University of Târgu Jiu (Romanian: Universitatea „Constantin Brâncuși” din Târgu Jiu) is an accredited higher education institution of public interest, with legal personality and non-profit character, established in accordance with the legal provisions, according to the Romanian Government Decision no. 288 / 01.06.1992, and operates on the basis of the principles of university autonomy and academic freedom, under the coordination of the Ministry of National Education - central specialized authority. Constantin Brâncuși University of Târgu-Jiu is a university concerned, especially, in offering young people the chance to choose various study programs, in accordance with the requirements of the highly qualified labor market. Prior to 1992 it offered technology degrees as part of University of Craiova.

Historic

Since the establishment of the university, the educational offer has experienced a marked diversification, in order to meet the training needs of young people, as well as the requirements identified for the professional insertion of graduates. Thus, Constantin Brâncuși University today has 23 study programs for the undergraduate and 21 master's degree programs. The significant efforts made to diversify the educational offer have been corroborated with those for the development of the material base, the institutional infrastructure and the human resource, in order to ensure competitive and qualitative conditions, related to the requirement of European standards.

Faculties And Academic Departments

The university is organized in four faculties and two departments:

Faculty of Engineering

Faculty of Education, Law and Public Administration

Faculty of Economics

Faculty of Health and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Teacher Training

Research And Development Department

International Academic Cooperation

Starting with 2008, the Constantin Brâncuși University of Târgu-Jiu was awarded the Erasmus University Charter. Therefore, through the Erasmus Mobility Program - under the Lifelong Learning Program (LLP), students or masters have been able to study at other European universities, under conditions of mutual recognition of competencies. From the academic year 2014-2015, Constantin Brâncuşi University organizes mobilities within the Erasmus + program.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Constantin Brâncuși University of Târgu Jiu” is university in Târgu Jiu, Romania. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Constantin, Brâncuși and University, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 2008, 2014, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990. For this dossier, Constantin, Brâncuși and University is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “university in Târgu Jiu, Romania” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3551393. VIAF identifies the subject as 265881021. The Library of Congress control number is no2011145684. Authority coordinates are 45.040, 23.271. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992, 2008, 2014 and 2015.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Constantin Brâncuși University of Târgu Jiu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.