VUM (in English Varna University of Management) is the legal successor of International University College, which was founded in 1999 and converted into a university of applied sciences type of higher education institution in 2015. VUM is a private not-for-profit university with a strong focus on internationalisation. Currently, over 30% of VUM students are international and coming from more than 50 countries around the world. VUM is specialised in social and computer sciences and offers undergraduate and master programmes in International Business and Management and Business Administration, Software Engineering and Business Information Systems, and Tourism and Hospitality. At VUM, all study programmes are fully delivered in English and lead to the award of double degrees offered in collaboration with various VUM partner universities in Europe and beyond.

Over the last 10 years, VUM has embraced internationalisation as a horizontal policy underpinning all institutional activities and domains. VUM has an extensive and sophisticated network of active academic partners in over 60 countries on five continents. Since the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility programme’s launch in 2015, in the framework of eight consecutive projects, VUM has facilitated over 500 inbound student and staff mobilities from more than 40 universities in 25 countries worldwide. Furthermore, a very high percentage of VUM students engage in an outbound student mobility at least once in the course of their studies at VUM. As a result, in 2020 VUM has been ranked by U-Multirank for a third year in a row as one of the 25 top performers worldwide in terms of student mobility.

Last but not least, VUM is the initiator and coordinator of two Erasmus+ projects for capacity building in higher education, namely BEEHIVE: Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems to Enhance Higher Education Value-Added for Better Graduate Employability and FRIENDS: Furthering International Relations and Intercultural Engagement to Nurture Campus Diversity and to Support Internationalisation at Home. In addition, the university is proud to act as a partner in a number of other Erasmus+ projects for capacity building in higher education, including ENACT.