Foreign citizens admitted to institutions for higher education in Bulgaria pay tuition fees set by the Council of Ministers on an annual basis. The fees are set in their total annual amount in Euro or the BGN equivalent according to the prevailing rate of the Bulgarian National Bank.
The tuition fee for Doctoral degree programmes
Ph.D. students (in Bulgarian language) per academic year:
1. Full-time tuition - € 5500.
2. Extra-mural (part-time) tuition - € 2750.
3. Subject “Law” - € 5500.
4. Subject “Medicine” - € 10000.
Ph.D. students and specialization students (in English or other foreign language) per academic year:
1. Full-time tuition - € 6500
2. Extra-mural (part-time) tuition - € 3300
3. Subjects related to “Pedagogy” and “Pedagogy of the teaching of …” – all faculties (full-time / part-time) tuition - € 3000
4. Subject „Management of Education“at the Faculty of Education (full-time / part-time) tuition - € 3000
5. Subject “Law” - € 6500.
6. Subject “Medicine” (full-time) tuition - € 10000.
There is a language course in Bulgarian with anual fee of € 3300 per year.
The students can pay the fees in two equal installments at the beginning of each semester.
Persons with double citizenship, one of which Bulgarian, pay half of the amount set for foreign citizens, if they have been admitted in accordance with the requirements established for foreign citizens.