The Medical University - Sofia is the oldest institution for higher medical education. It is a national educational, scientific and medical institution that carries out an educational and health policy that meets the world standards and the Bulgarian medical school. 

Sofia Medical University provides a well-rounded intellectual training with specific emphasis on research and communication with patients. The University has revolutionized the education of physicians, the practice of medicine, and medical research internationally. Medical University of Sofia has four faculties, three colleges and 14 university hospitals which are a wonderful resource for your professional medical growth. Study programmes in English that are available at Sofia Medical University include Medicine, Dental Medicine and Pharmacy. It is one of the oldest, largest and most prestigious educational and scientific centres in Bulgaria and on the Balkan Peninsula. The Medical Faculty was founded by the Decree of His Majesty King Ferdinand in 1917 and since its foundation more than 60 000 specialists have graduated at one of the best medical universities in Bulgaria.

Sofia Medical University uses the European Credit Transfer System and offers Erasmus plus programmes for students. This way, students at Sofia Medical University can travel and study abroad during their studies. If you study at Sofia Medical University, you can study abroad with the Erasmus + programme in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, the Netherlands, Spain, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania. Institutional accreditation was granted by the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency. Last but not least, as Bulgaria is part of the European Union, the diploma of the Sofia Medical University is valid in all countries.

Library

The Central University Medical Library was founded at the Faculty of Medicine in 1919 and is one of the oldest and richest libraries for medical literature in Bulgaria. The library’s structure includes: library-information complex, Scientific Medical Information Department, Educational and Scientific Documentation and Films Department.

The Central Medical Library posses 500 422 volumes of medical literature, 900 volumes of new books, including those bought after deposits and donations. 445 periodicals are delivered also.The library has a reading room with 35 seats, a student reading room with 40 seats, a computer hall with 20 seats, computer and copier technique. There is a free access to the main automated medical database – MEDLINE, SPRINGERLINK, PROQUEST, LWW Fulltext Journals and may others.