“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati is the most important institution of higher education in the South-East of Romania.

“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati functions according to the university Charter, whose provisions are in agreement with the national legislation and with the principles of the European Space of Higher Education, being recognized by all members of the university community.

A forward-thinking, modern and student-oriented institution, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati has a firm commitment to generate and transfer knowledge to society through:

• Initial and continuous education – through undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for self-development and  career orientation,  in an attempt at meeting the demands of the social and economic environment.
• Research, development, innovation and technology transfer –  through individual and collective creativity in science, engineering, economics, arts, letters, sciences, humanities, medicine, legal sciences, providing sports performance and physical development and the dissemination of results.
• The university offers all members of the community the necessary conditions for putting into practice their personal aptitudes by means of education, scientific research and social-cultural activities.
• The University assumes the role of cultural and civic centre meant to contribute to the formation and dissemination of cultural values, to promote pluralism of options and the development of political and civic culture.
• The University also assumes the role of scientific and technological creation pole, to support all economic, educational and social entities in the region.
• Its mission is to promote free thinking and the values ​​attached to the principles of universal knowledge.

The university fulfills its mission by achieving the following objectives:

• Creating specialists with a superior training for education, science and culture, health, technology, economics, judicial and social activities, according to the study programmes included in the structure of the university, to the educational standards and to the needs of the society; 
•  Updating and improving the training of specialists by master programmes, doctoral studies, post-doctoral studies and continuous training;
•   Improving the curricula, the syllabus and the teaching and evaluation methods;
•   Improving education based on transferable credits, to ensure students the possibility of transfer from one study programme to another, and to obtain international recognition of the diplomas awarded by the university;
•  Development,diversification of and results from computerising the teaching-trainingprocess;
•   Uncovering,stimulating and valorizing the aptitudes of students, giving special attentionto individual values.