The Faculty of Philology was founded in 1991 and realizes the most topical Bulgarian and world educational tendencies in the preparation of prospective teachers, philologists, ethnologists, journalists and interpreters. Students not only from the country, but also from Greece, North Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Ukraine, Albania, Japan, China, etc., study there. Thanks to the exchange programme for student mobility Erasmus +, they can study in tens of partner foreign univeristies for the period of one semester.
Since 2007, undergraduates from the Faculty have had the opportunity to present a two-hour programme “In the eyes of the world” on Radio Blagoevgrad, where they decide upon the topic of discussion as well as their guests by themselves.
Since 2016, a Confucius classroom has been established, whereby undergraduates from the university wishing to study Chinese can do so free of charge, with a Chinese teacher. In addition to that, students can also study Japanese with a native speaker.
Depending on the specialty and their professional qualification, graduates from the Faculty work in Bulgarian and foreign public and private companies, organizations and institutions which require pedagogical qualifications, philological competence, media and translation experience, as well as expertise in the field of ethnic and religious communities, or museum work competence.