University admission results show few want to become teachers

Candidates seem reluctant to fill the vacant university seats proposed for the repeat admission round, with pedagogy and exact sciences being the most unpopular among the specialties on the offer, Info-Prim Neo reports. Unlike the first admission round, the candidates are not seen queuing at university doors. Now they have to choose from among what was left after the first round, and these are mainly exact sciences, humanitarian sciences, natural sciences and agricultural sciences. Anatol Topala, secretary of the admission committee at the Moldova State University (USM), said that after the first round there are still 280 seats left, 170 of which are government-funded, that is, tuition-free. In the lowest demand are the faculties of physics, untraditional energy, soil sciences, geography, biology, chemistry, informatics, mathematics, and pedagogy. USM will enrol this year 3,766 students, including 655 tuition-free. Annual tuition fees range from 3,500 to 8,000 lei. Some 28,000 candidates across the country applied for university seats during the first admission round. Most applications – about 5,000 – were lodged with the USM. The most popular specialties were international relations, law, finance and banks, business and administration, marketing and logistics, dentistry, and general medicine.