Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy

The school was founded as a faculty on 30 December 1944, when King Michael I signed Decree-Law no. 660:

Art. 1 – The West University is founded on the date of publication of this hereby law, having the following faculties: Law, Literature and Philosophy, Sciences, Human Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Pharmacology and Theology.

The inauguration of the new university took place on 15 July 1945 and classes started three days later in the Notre Dame High School (present-day Students' House). There were 412 students enrolled in the first year and 76 students in the second year, transferred from other universities. The first class graduated in 1949, counting 70 graduate students. In October 1945, the faculty was given the current premises – the former German-language Banatia High School built in 1926, requisitioned and transformed into a Soviet military hospital during World War II.

Following the education reform, by Decree no. 175/1948 published in the Official Gazette no. 177/1948, the Faculty of Medicine became the Institute of Medicine, having in its composition three faculties: General Medicine, Pediatrics and Hygiene. In 1964, the department with a dental profile became the Faculty of Dentistry. Professor Emanoil Popa, then head of works, professor Nicolae Duțescu (from Iași) and head of works Radu Roșiu (from Cluj) contributed significantly to its establishment. The Faculty of Pharmacy was founded in 1990, the year in which the Institute of Medicine changed its name to the University of Medicine. It received its current name by Government Decision no. 23/2001.