The Romanian-American University () is a private university in Bucharest, Romania, which offers courses and degrees in English as well as Romanian, emphasizing international business. It is ranked among the top 100 universities in the world according to Qs world rankings. It was founded by Ion Smedescu. The Romanian-American University is a higher education institution, a legal person of private law and public utility, part of the national system of education, founded in 1991, accredited by law in 2002, receiving the qualification "High confidence rating" from ARACIS in 2010, whose mission is to offer high quality education and research, in an intellectually stimulating environment both for students and for the teaching staff. The Romanian-American University was founded in 1991 whose mission is to promote the educational values of the American academic education given the rich traditions of the Romanian education. The initiative of the establishment of the Romanian-American University belonged to the late Prof. Ion Smedescu, PhD, founder of the Romanian-American University and president of the Romanian-American Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture. The Romanian-American University is an independent institution without being affiliated or sponsored by American University. The evolution of the URA logo Anniversary logo 30 years since its founding Historic Professor Ion Smedescu was born in the village Obârșia, in Cernișoara region, the Vâlcea county, in a rather modest family, from a financial point of view, but extremely "gifted" from another vantage point, as it had 10 children. At the age of 12, understanding the material difficulties that the family was faced with, Prof. Smedescu deems himself mature enough to make it on his own and chooses to take his life into his own hands, spending some time in an orphanage at Turnu Roşu, only to then study and graduate from the Norma School of Teaching "Andrei Șaguna" in Sibiu, between 1939 and 1947, getting a teacher diploma. Subsequently, in 1952, he becomes an economist, after graduating from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Academy of Commercial and Cooperative Sciences/Institute of Economic Sciences and Planning, as the denominations under which the institution functioned at the time). Since education played a fundamental role in his professional success, in 1991, at the age of 67, Professor Ion Smedescu decides to set up the Romanian-American University, thus returning to society some of what he received from it in his turn, and wishing in this way to offer, over time,