Dozens of young people from practically all the country’s districts, who want to be enrolled at universities, besieged the higher education establishments of Moldova on the first admission day. Some of them came at night and queued up to submit the necessary documents, IPN reports.

There were a lot of people at the admission commission of the State University of Moldova (USM) as well. Ana Maximov said she came early in the morning and has stood in line for several hours as she wants to be enrolled at the faculty of economy. According to her, it would have been much better if there had been an online appointment system so as to avoid long lines. She said she intends to apply to several specialties at the USM and also applied to study in Romania. If she is admitted to a Romanian university and to the USM too, she will choose the first variant.

Most of the applicants chose such faculties as economy, law, foreign languages and journalism. Victor Dombrauscaz wants to study business and administration because he is sure that one can build a prosperous future only by running the won business. He decided to come on the first admission day so as to stay calmly afterward and wait for the results.

Many of the young people came accompanied by parents. Most of them hope to get a budget-funded place, but are ready to pay tuition if they do not obtain one.

“We came at 7am and were the 202nd in the line. But the applicants go out rather quickly,” said the mother of an applicant from Soroca, Lilia Lepadatu. Another mother, Natalia Vlas, also from Soroca, said her daughter wants to study foreign languages or journalism. She noted it is very important for the young people to have a job even if there may be not enough workplaces.

Admission contests are taking place at 28 universities, ten of which are privately owned, until August 7.