Educations sciences, engineering, information technology and medicine are essential areas for the state. Representatives of the Ministry of Education and Research said the country needs specialists in these fields. Therefore, the Government will finance the training of such specialists. The rector of the Moldova Technical University (UTM), which absorbed the Agrarian University, said that agronomy and veterinary sciences continue to be ignored by the candidates for admission, IPN reports.

The final results of the additional Baccalaureate session were published on August 1. The general Baccalaureate exam pass rate in 2022 is 72.71%. The national universities already made public their offers for the lyceum and college graduates. The Ministry of Education said the Government will cover the tuition fees for young people who will choose less popular specialties.

“We have 8,732 places for the first, Bachelor’s cycle and for the second, Master’s cycle. This year we have priority areas. It goes to education sciences. 26% of all the places were distributed to this area. Engineering and architecture are also very important for our country, our economy. 21% of the places were earmarked for these areas. It also goes to information and communication technology and medicine. By 11% of the places were assigned to these areas. These are the country’s needs,” secretary of state at the Ministry of Education and Research Adriana Cazacu stated in the program “Common Objective” on TVR Moldova.

The rector of the Technical University Viorel Bostan said the number of applicants at their institution is higher than last year. However, there are areas that are not popular with young people.

“Most of the state budget-funded places in engineering science, manufacturing technologies, architecture, the building sector, ICT were allocated to UTM. In total, the Technical University has over 2,200 budget-funded places to study for a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree. The budget-funded places are annually put up for contest. This means that if a candidate didn’t get a budget-funded place the first year, this has big chances of obtaining a state-budget funded place later. This year the file submission pace is by 10% higher. We already received over 2,000 applications for fulltime studies and over 500 applications for a Master’s degree. We have popular and less popular, but very important programs. Everyone wants to become a programmer, but the Information and Communication Technology needs also electronic technicians, automatists. Agronomy and veterinary sciences are less popular,” stated Viorel Bostan.

In connection with Admission 2022, the Ministry of Education and Research recommended the following periods to all the universities:

- submission of files for the contest: July 25 – August 2, 2022
- announcing of intermediary results: August 3, 2022
- filing of documents in the original to the chosen institution: August 4- 6, 2022 (according to hour set by institution)
- announcing of final results: August 8, 2022