The Doctoral School in Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Bucharest is devoted to the training of researchers, as well as to developing advanced research in its two specialization tracks: Psychology and Educational Sciences (Pedagogy). These two scientific disciplines, although strongly intertwined and engaged in intensive collaboration within the Doctoral School, have relatively separate doctoral training tracks: each track is represented by its doctoral coordinators, qualified only in that respective domain, the admission is conducted in separate committees and the doctoral courses are held in part separately (though some courses are common to both tracks). The Doctoral School trains approximately 15-20 students each year in each of the two tracks it provides (the number of successful doctoral graduates varies each year).

The Doctoral School’s mission is to train excellent researchers in the two scientific domains that it includes, as well as to contribute, via its associated coordinators and doctoral students, to advanced scientific research in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.

The Doctoral School is the main center for scientific research in the Faculty. We understand advanced scientific research via two indicators. The first defines advanced research as research with an international impact, published in internationally acclaimed scientific journals. The second indicator, and subsequent to the first, is putting research into practice via public policy, whitepapers or products with social or commercial value.