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.
At the age of 12, understanding the material difficulties that the family was faced with, Smedescu spent some time in an orphanage at Turnu Roșu, only to then study and graduate from the Normal School of Teaching "Andrei Șaguna" in Sibiu, between 1939 and 1947, getting a teacher diploma.
Since education played a fundamental role in his professional success, in 1991, at the age of 67, Smedescu decided to set up the Romanian-American University, thus returning to society some of what he received from it, and wishing in this way to offer, over time, an opportunity for professional and personal fulfillment to other children who would perhaps be as destitute as he used to be, but who were just as filled with ambition and determination to succeed in life.
In accomplishing this desideratum, the starting point was that in the United States of America, higher education stands on the model of the behavior-driven American society based on the efficient organization of activity, resilient sense of duty, the cultivation of work spirit, self-respect, and respect for the others, fair competition throughout one’s lifetime, competition with all the others and, last but not least, with oneself", as Professor Ion Smedescu declared himself.
The results of the ranking of the study programs valid for the academic year 2011–2012, according to the law, were: