The University of National and World Economy is the eldest, the most prestigious and the largest economic university in Bulgaria and Southeastern Europe. In 2017 the UNWE has obtained for the third time the highest assessment among all Bulgarian universities for a six-years period by the National Accreditation and Assessment Agency.    The UNWE has 8 Faculties: General Economics Faculty, Finance and Accountancy Faculty, Management and Administration Faculty, Economics of Infrastructure Faculty, International Economics and Politics Faculty, Applied Informatics and Statistics Faculty, Business Faculty and Law Faculty.  At the UNWE work about 500 lecturers, 300 of them are Professors and Associate Professors. The UNWE has an Educational Quality Management System certified by Intertek in compliance with the International Standard ISO 9001:2008. The UNWE occupies highly competitive positions. Traditionally it has the largest number of prospective students and a record number of excellent students in comparison with the other universities in our country. The UNWE is the largest Bulgarian university. It has 21 534 students studying in full-time and distance form of education in 43 Bachelor`s degree specialities and 88 Master`s degree specialities as well as about 500 Bulgarian and foreign Ph.D. students studying in 41 Ph.D. programmes. The UNWE collaborates with 132 universities from all over the world working with them on joint Master`s degree programmes, scientific research projects, distance learning, students and lecturers exchange.  The UNWE has incorporated a credit system providing an opportunity for student mobility between the specialities as well as between other Bulgarian and foreign universities.