The "Ion C. Brătianu" National College (Romanian: Colegiul Național Ion C. Brătianu) is a comprehensive four-year public high school with 1,200 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12, located at 14 Armand Călinescu Street, Pitești, Romania.
In accordance to the Romanian curriculum imposed by the Ministry, the students have a fixed weekly schedule that is repeated throughout the two semesters of the academic year.
Therefore, although the core curricula is imposed by the legislation of the Ministry, the highschool offers partially different kinds of classes depending on the profile chosen by each of the 30 students groups.
The statistical data for the 2009 class are: Mathematician Ciprian Manolescu, the only three-time winner of the International Mathematics Olympiad, attended Brătianu High School,[2] as have other 7 international olympiad gold medallists in mathematics, biology, and physics.
In arts the high school had many talented students, such as the poets Ion Barbu[3] and Ion Minulescu,[3] the painters Sorin Ilfoveanu,[5] Costin Petrescu,[3] and Rudolf Schweitzer-Cumpăna,[3] the writers Dan Simonescu,[6] Vladimir Streinu,[3] Tudor Teodorescu-Braniște,[3] and George Vâlsan,[3] and the journalist Robert Turcescu.