In 1990, after officially given the university title by the Romanian government, the institution started to individualize throughout academic consolidation, didactic and scientific diversification, not least by getting better known nationally and internationally.

In September 2008, the university was awarded with a High Confidence Rating by the executive bureau of ARACIS (Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education).

[9] Nowadays, the Ștefan cel Mare University (USV) has the following ten faculties: USV disposes of a noteworthy series of facilities including a student radio station (i.e. Radio USV), a student TV channel owned by Digital Media Center (DMC) with headquarters at the students' house, a large football pitch, a swimming basin, and numerous scientific laboratories equipped with the latest technology in the fields of robotics, mechanics, virtual reality (VR), and many more.

Radio USV has been active since the early 2010s (more specifically from 2011 onwards) whereas Digital Media Center's student TV channel has been operating since 2018 to the present day.

During the academic year 2018–19, USV reported international agreements with universities in Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Ivory Coast, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Georgia, Hungary, Greece, Jordan, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, Turkey, Ukraine, and United Kingdom.