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Romania

A large technical sector serving Romania, and no published price for anyone else.

4/5
ingredients confirmed
Still unknown: tuition
Living
44.7% of US prices
A comparison of prices, not a budget: it says what things cost here against the United States, not what a month will cost you. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.
Field reputation
Domestic and regional
Industry access
Employer needed; the graduate extension is for universities
Safety
1.788 · 45th of 163
Forty-fifth globally — safer on the index than Italy, France or the United Kingdom

More is being checked.

Where these figures came from

One row per ingredient. Open any of them for the source, how far we trust it, and when we last checked.

TuitionNo data yet

No figure recorded. No published fee schedule for a Romanian vocational or specialist institution charging non-EU students could be confirmed at tier 1 or tier 2, and the tier 3 material described university programmes rather than vocational training. See the Pathoff method, section 14-5.

Confidence
no figure
Living44.7% of US prices

World Bank, 2024, CC BY 4.0: the PPP conversion factor for household consumption is 2.0566 local currency units per international dollar, against an official exchange rate of 4.5984 to the US dollar. Their ratio, 0.447, is the price level against the United States, whose own ratio is 1 by construction. Both figures are theirs; the division is ours. See the Pathoff method, section 12.

A comparison of prices, not a budget: it says what things cost here against the United States, not what a month will cost you. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Field reputationDomestic and regional

Pathoff education rubric (the Pathoff method, section 9-2), special band "Locally useful only": Training is tied to Romanian industry and respected within the region. No institution here is a name the wider industry knows, and EU recognition of the qualification is institutional rather than reputational.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Industry accessEmployer needed; the graduate extension is for universities

Pathoff outcome rubric (the Pathoff method, section 10-3), special outcome band "A route that needs an employer": Judged on its own. The nine-month extension is granted on completion of higher education, so a vocational graduate goes straight to an employment permit that requires a job offer first.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Rule
No change known to us
Last checked
2026-09
Safety1.788 · 45th of 163

Global Peace Index 2026, Institute for Economics and Peace: score 1.788, ranked 45 of 163. Both figures are theirs; we publish them as they are.

Forty-fifth globally — safer on the index than Italy, France or the United Kingdom

Confidence
printed in the source

What it is like here

Romania’s vocational system feeds a genuine manufacturing and technology economy, and living costs make training here cheap in absolute terms. What we could not establish is what a foreign student pays, and the nine-month graduate extension is written around higher education, which leaves a vocational graduate needing an employer.

How the process works

1

Check the award level before enrolling

Whether it is higher education decides whether the graduate extension exists afterwards.

Timing not confirmed

Where the training is

Cluj / Timișoara
The technology and manufacturing employers

Open any ingredient above to see where its figure came from, how far we trust it and when we last checked. Nothing here is a substitute for the official source. Last reviewed 2026-09-04.

Photograph of Romania by Madalin Pentelie, licensed CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.