The Ministry of Education, Culture and Research for the 2021-2022 university year suggests a quota of 15% of the total number of places stipulated in the admission plan with budget funding for particular disfavored categories of candidates.

Priority will be given to candidates who remained without parental care and to candidates with a severe or accentuated disability degree. This is provided in the draft framework regulations concerning admission to higher education at the undergraduate level for the 2021-2022 university year that were presented for public debates, IPN reports.

The budget-funded places are also intended for young people whose both parents have disability degrees and young people whose parents took part in the war for defending the integrity and territorial independence of the Republic of Moldova, the war in Afghanistan, the Chernobyl cleanup. The young people from families with four and more children who are maintained, who are graduates of schools situated in the eastern districts of the Republic of Moldova and from Bender municipality, who studied according to the education programs adopted by the Ministry of Education and others can also apply for such paces.

Under the draft regulations, the candidates will be enrolled online through the admission platforms of universities, according to the methodology agreed by each institution. A minimum number of candidates who do not have the necessary digital means owing to the precarious financial situation are allowed to present the documents in person.

The higher education establishments apply own admission methodologies, in accordance with the own missions, institutional strategy and labor market demand. The universities are to inform the candidates about the admission schedule, distribution of budget-funded places and contract places and the programs of study, forms of education, quotas and language of learning, tuition and conditions needed for being enrolled by posting the information on their websites.