The Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău (Romanian: Universitatea „Vasile Alecsandri” din Bacău) is a public university in Romania, located in Bacău. Named in honor of the poet Vasile Alecsandri, it was founded in 1990.
The first higher education school in Bacău was founded in 1961 as the Pedagogical Institute of Bacău. In 1984 it was transformed into the Sub-Engineering Institute, subordinated to the Technical University of Iași. In 1990, the institution became a university.
