National Sports Academy "Vassil Levski"

National Sports Academy “Vassil Levski” (NSA) is a specialized higher education institution in the Bulgarian university system with more than 80 years of history. NSA is the only university fully specialized in sports science in Bulgaria and one of the few sports universities in Europe. The higher school has achieved highest score of the accreditation by the National Agency for Evaluation and Accreditation of the Republic of Bulgaria and holds the leading position in the ranking system of university structures in the field of sports education.
It was founded in 1942 to meet the need for Physical education teachers in the dynamically developing Bulgarian state and its goals of creating a generation of healthy and energetic young people. On this basis, study programs and curricula are gradually developed have been united in three faculties: Faculty of Sport, Faculty of Pedagogy, Faculty of Public Health, Health Care and Tourism. Dormitories, recreation and nutrition places, a medical care center and a service for career guidance and counseling are available to NSA students.
Education at all levels is consistent with the qualifications framework for higher education in the European Higher Education Area. Full compliance of the educational process at NSA with the criteria of the Bolongna process ranks NSA among European universities with transparent and comprehensible qualifications, easy recognition of diplomas on the labor market and in continuing education, very good student mobility/Erasmus+/ and opportunity of combining national and international characteristics during the study process.