Mission

SNSPA aims to:

  • train graduates according to the requirements of the labour market;
  • train young people capable to think freely, by encouraging critical thinking, the capacity to permanently improve their knowledge;
  • contribute to increasing students‘ qualifications by promoting life-long learning programmes, particularly in the area required by professional reorientation;
  • develop research and include the young generation in research project circuits;
  • promote cooperation and partnership with similar universities, governmental agencies and organisations, non-governmental organisations, companies and business enterprises as well as any other groups or entities whose area of activity is in line with the SNSPA mission.
The SNSPA institutional vision consists in promoting and implementing a unique relationship between the university process and genuine change in Romania. SNSPA constantly trains Romanian elite and aims to extend this training feature to regional level. SNSPA is a university that adapts to the requirements of the Europeanization and globalisation processes.

SNSPA activities are characterised by: competence, performance, trust in the autonomy of professional decisions and pursuing one’s profession, commitment to high professional standards, team solidarity. The SNSPA students are at the core of the university’s educational activities.

SNSPA aims to become a provider of governance competences so that in the following years it can develop its capacity of having elite graduates who will contribute to the responsible governance of Romania and the European Union.



The story

The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), established in 1991 as a school of governance and training of professionals for essential social areas, is a landmark in the Romanian academic setting.

Known both nationally and internationally, SNSPA is a state institution of higher education, scientific research and professional academic training offering undergraduate degrees, master’s degrees and doctoral studies. SNSPA trains and develops professional competencies in Political Sciences, Sociology, Administrative Studies, International Relations, Diplomacy, European Studies, Communication Sciences, Psychology, Management, Human Resources, thus contributing to change at national and international level, a change based on democratic values and principles.

SNSPA has proved to be a successful project, being one of the most popular institutions with high school graduates or professionals in different domains who wish to study further.

SNSPA stands out because of its educational commitment with the purpose of finding answers to contemporary issues, at national as well as at regional and global levels. SNSPA offers numerous study programmes, at all levels and types of academic education, accredited or licensed, the entire structure of the study programmes being compatible with the Bologna Process.

In response to a social necessity that was felt in Romania after 1989, SNSPA was established as a post-graduate programme, following the model of the schools of governance in France, Belgium, Great Britain and USA. Its setting up was determined by the situation Romania was confronted with in the early 90s in terms of the initial/in-service training of specialists in administrative and political sciences, by the need to create expertise in these areas, to train professionals for the public area, while the country was undergoing a restructuring process and acceding to/ under a project of reforming and access to the European and Euro-Atlantic structures.

In its over two decades of existence, SNSPA has trained professionals who due to their level of knowledge contribute to the drawing up and management of public policies in state institutions, to the development of the country’s international affairs, to the organisation and management of business in private companies, to the improvement of communication and to the process of nation or company branding.

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