The procedure aims to establish the way in which the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest (UTCB) recognizes the doctorate title obtained in accredited foreign higher education institutions, in compliance with the principles of legality, university autonomy, transparency, responsibility, and applicable ethical and deontological norms.

The procedure applies within the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest for the automatic recognition of the doctoral title obtained in accredited foreign higher education institutions.

Applicants who have obtained the respective diploma and title at:

• accredited higher education or research and development institutions in a member state of the European Union, the European Economic Area, or the Swiss Confederation;
• accredited higher education or research and development institutions included in the List of prestigious universities in other states, approved by order of the Minister of National Education and Scientific Research, updated periodically;
• accredited higher education or research and development institutions that are subject to an international mutual recognition agreement, concluded at inter-governmental or inter-university level.

All applicants who do not fall within any of the above situations must address the National Center for Recognition and Equivalence of Diplomas of the relevant ministry directly.

Applicants must have a doctoral diploma and the title of doctor of science in one of the doctoral fields accredited at UTCB.

The applicant’s file is submitted, in the first stage by e-mail to the UTCB Rectorate Secretariat, which checks the documents in the file before registering it.

The file is registered after the documents have been checked.

The Rectorate Secretariat checks the file for completeness and forwards it for analysis to a Recognition Committee appointed by the Rector.

Within 30 working days from the file submission, the Recognition Committee appointed by the Rector will inform the applicant of the agreement or, as the case may be, disagreement for the recognition of the doctoral diploma and the title of doctor of science, together with the reasoning for the decision.

If the request is not approved, the applicant may file an appeal within 5 working days from receiving this notification. The appeal is analyzed within 5 working days by an Appeals Committee appointed by the Rector and the result will be communicated to the applicant in writing.

The following specifications are made regarding the authentication of the doctoral diploma to be submitted for recognition:

• For states that are parties to the Hague Apostille Convention, the study documents subject to equivalence/recognition must be endorsed with the Hague Apostille by the competent authorities in the issuing countries; study documents from Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Cyprus will be endorsed with the Hague Convention Apostille, other EU member states being excepted.
• For states that are not parties to the Hague Apostille Convention, study documents will be superlegalized or will be accompanied by a Certificate of authenticity issued by the competent authorities from the country of origin. Superlegalization is applied either by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the issuing country and the Embassy/Consular Office of Romania in that country, or by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the issuing country, its Embassy/Consular Office in Romania, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania. For countries where Romania does not have diplomatic missions or which do not have diplomatic missions in Romania, the study documents will have the visa of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the issuing country.
• Exemption from superlegalization is permitted under the law, an international treaty to which Romania is a party, or on the basis of reciprocity.
• Any of the legalized copies (not the legalized translation) may be replaced with a simple copy only if the original document is presented.

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