Founded in 1974, Medical University - Pleven is an accredited state university, offering high quality education in the fields of Medicine and Health Care. Medicine has been taught in English at MU-Pleven since 1997 and was the first English taught medicine program in Bulgaria. Today MU-Pleven incorporates a large complex of educational facilities, contemporary pre-clinical base and two university hospitals having a large number of specialized clinics and research units with modern equipment.