
The Babes-Bolyai University is a research higher education institution of Humboldtian type, an academic community consisting of teaching staff, researchers, auxiliary teaching staff, students, technical and administrative staff.
The BBU functioning is based on university autonomy, which is conceived as a specific modality of self management respecting the legal frame established by Romania's Constitution and the Teaching Law, no. 84/1995, re-published in 1999, by other laws as well as by its own regulations and subscribes to The Lima Declaration on Academic Freedom and Autonomy of Institution of Higher Education (1988), The Magna Charta of European Universities (Bologna, 1988), adheres to The European University Association, to the International Association of Universities and to the Bologna Declaration (1999).