For the 2026-2027 round, the Romanian government received 88,798 applications from 152 countries. That is Romania's own published number, and it is the most useful thing on the entire scholarship website — because it tells you, before you spend a taka, exactly what kind of queue you are joining. Then comes the line almost nobody in the Bangladeshi market repeats: the scholarship is not awarded in medicine, dental medicine or pharmacy.
Romania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs scholarship, run under Government Decision no. 288/1993, waives tuition for a Romanian preparatory year and for the degree itself, pays a monthly stipend and covers dormitory accommodation within the state subsidy. It excludes medicine, dental medicine and pharmacy, and at bachelor's and master's level you study only in Romanian. No 2027-2028 call is published yet — the 2026-2027 call opened 16 February 2026 and closed 31 March 2026.
What does the Romanian government scholarship actually cover?
More than most fully-funded schemes, and the list is published in full. In the scheme's own words, a holder gets exemption "from the payment of registration fees or any other fees required by application processing", financing of "the tuition expenses for the Romanian language preparatory year", financing of "the tuition expenses for the actual studies, but not more than the duration of a university cycle", a monthly scholarship during the preparatory year, a monthly scholarship during the degree itself, and financing of "the accommodation expenses in the student dormitories, within the allocated subsidy".
Read that accommodation clause twice. It is funded "to the extent of available places", and the scheme tells holders they have "the obligation to contact the host university to find out the accommodation conditions". A funded dormitory bed is a possibility, not a guarantee.
The scheme states it plainly: "Scholarships are NOT awarded in the fields of MEDICINE, DENTAL MEDICINE and PHARMACY." In Bangladesh, Romania is marketed hardest to exactly those students. If someone has told you that you can study MBBS in Romania on a Romanian government scholarship, that is not a small misunderstanding — it is the one field combination the scheme names and rules out. Medicine in Romania is a self-funded route, and it should be priced as one from the first conversation.
How much is the monthly stipend?
We do not know, and we are not going to invent it. This is worth explaining, because the reason is structural rather than an oversight on our part.
Government Decision no. 288/1993 creates the scholarship but does not set the amount. Its Article 4 says the amount granted to foreign citizens "is that established by Government decision" — that is, a separate implementing act. That act appears to be HG 859/1995, and Romania's legislative portal would not serve it to us on repeated attempts. Meanwhile the scholarship website's own FAQ describes the payment only as "a monthly financial aid, in accordance with the legislation in force", with no figure at all.
Any agency quoting you a precise RON stipend for Romania is quoting something no accessible Romanian government page publishes. Ask them for the source. If the answer is another agency's website, you have learned something useful about the advice you are being given. The honest planning assumption is that the stipend exists, is modest, and should not be the reason you choose the country.
Is Bangladesh eligible?
On the published criteria, yes — but Romania never says so by name, and that distinction matters.
The scheme is open to "Foreign citizens from all non-EU countries", subject to a six-item exclusion list: people of Romanian origin or from Romanian historical communities nearby; people who have requested or acquired protection in Romania; stateless persons officially recognised in Romania; diplomatic and consular staff accredited to Romania and their families, and administrative and technical staff of those missions; staff of international organisations based in Romania and their families; and anyone already holding a Romanian state scholarship for the same study cycle.
Bangladesh is a non-EU country and a Bangladeshi student falls into none of those six. But Romania publishes no country-by-country eligible list, so the safe position is that you qualify under the category test and should confirm with the mission before building a plan on it.
When does the 2027-2028 call open?
It has not been announced, and we would rather tell you that than guess a date into your calendar. Nothing on studyinromania.gov.ro, on the scholarships portal, on edu.ro or on gov.ro mentions a 2027-2028 call, and the URL where a 2027-2028 page would sit returns a 404.
What is published is the completed 2026-2027 cycle, and one cycle is a pattern worth knowing.
| Stage | 2026-27 date | 2027-28 |
|---|---|---|
| Call opens | 16 February 2026 | Not published |
| Deadline | 31 March 2026 | Not published |
| Results | Around 15 July 2026 | Not published |
| Applicants | 88,798 | — |
On that single precedent, a 2027-2028 call would be expected somewhere around February to March 2027. That is our inference from one cycle, not a Romanian statement, and it should be treated as a reason to have documents ready rather than a date to rely on.
Will you have to study in Romanian?
At bachelor's and master's level, yes. The scheme says beneficiaries at those levels "study only in Romanian". PhD candidates may study in Romanian or in a foreign language offered by the doctoral school.
That means a preparatory year for most applicants. The Ministry of Education sets its length: one academic year for bachelor's programmes, and a minimum of six months for master's, doctoral and postgraduate medical residency studies. You are exempt if you already hold Romanian study documents, if you pass a Romanian language test, or if you hold a Romanian certificate at B1 or above.
For scholarship holders the preparatory year is funded, tuition and stipend both. For self-funded students it is another year of cost and another year before the degree starts — which is the single biggest difference between the funded and unfunded routes to Romania.
- Non-EU citizenship, and none of the six exclusions
- Study average of at least 7.00 in your last completed school
- A field that is not medicine, dental medicine or pharmacy
- Romanian preparatory year, unless exempt at B1 or above
- All study documents apostilled or authenticated by your home authorities
- Application through the official portal inside the call window
Does a Bangladeshi apostille work for Romania?
Yes, and it is one of the cleaner answers in Europe. The Hague Apostille Convention entered into force for Romania on 16 March 2001 and for Bangladesh on 30 March 2025. Twelve states objected to Bangladesh's accession — Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Estonia, Greece, France, Denmark, Argentina and Lithuania — and Romania is not one of them.
The scholarship rules line up with that: "All study documents must be apostilled under the Hague Convention or authenticated by the relevant authorities in the home country." So a Bangladeshi apostille is the route, and the embassy-legalisation chain some agencies still sell for Romania is not needed.
What about the visa — and the fee nobody can pin down?
Here we have to publish a discrepancy rather than resolve it. Romania's General Inspectorate for Immigration carries two pages on the long-stay study visa, and they quote two different fees.
| Item | Page A | Page B |
|---|---|---|
| Visa fee | EUR 120 | EUR 300 |
| Page dated | 29 Jan 2022 | No date |
| Insurance | For visa period | EUR 30,000 min |
Do not budget from either figure until the mission confirms it. What both pages agree on is more useful anyway: the favourable opinion is issued within 30 days, extendable by 15; the visa is granted for 90 days with one or more entries; and you must show proof of acceptance for studies from the Ministry of Education, proof of tuition paid for at least one year, means of support at around the national minimum wage per month, a criminal record certificate and medical insurance. After arrival, the residence permit application goes in at least 30 days before the visa's right to stay expires, and the right of residence may be extended to a maximum of six months after graduation.
Romania reaches Bangladeshi families through two very different conversations — one about a funded degree in Romanian, and one about self-funded medicine. They get mixed together constantly, and the mixing is what costs people money. We would rather separate them for you in twenty minutes than watch a family prepare for a scholarship their chosen field is excluded from.
What we could not verify, stated plainly. No monthly stipend figure is published on any Romanian government page we could reach; HG 288/1993 defers the amount to a separate decision and the legislative portal would not serve it. No official tuition range exists for self-funded non-EU students — the Ministry of Education publishes only the mechanism, under Government Ordinance no. 22/2009, with universities setting their own fees above a floor, so any "€5,000 for medicine" figure circulating online is not a Romanian government number. No eligible-country list names Bangladesh; eligibility here is read from the published non-EU category test. The visa fee is published twice, differently — EUR 120 and EUR 300 — on the same government site. Romania has no embassy in Bangladesh; the Embassy of Romania in New Delhi covers Bangladesh and an Honorary Consulate of Romania exists in Dhaka, but the ministry's pages would not open to us, so we publish no address, phone or scope of service for either. The Ministry of Education pages relied on above are dated 23 February 2016 and 8 February 2016. All sources read 28 September 2026.
Official sources: Romanian MFA scholarships portal · Study in Romania — 2026-2027 call · General Inspectorate for Immigration — long-stay study visa
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