Andrei Mureșanu National College (Dej)
Andrei Mureșanu National College () is a high school located at 1 Mai Street, nr. 10, Dej, Romania. By the early 1890s, when the area was part of Austria-Hungary, the local inhabitants were demanding a high school for Dej, which only had a gymnasium with lower grades. Their petition to the Education Ministry at Budapest, sent in 1892, was met with a vague reply, and was not actively approved until 1897, when a grade of high school opened in the former gymnasium building, which had belonged to George II Rákóczi. The new building was begun in spring 1899 and completed the following autumn. The school had the full eight grades by 1904–1905, with the first graduates finishing at the end of the year. By 1918, nearly 500 pupils had graduated; 84 were ethnic Romanians, often noted for their academic performance. Following the union of Transylvania with Romania, the school was taken over by the Romanian state. The revamped institution opened in October 1919 with 282 regular and 43 private pupils taught by eleven faculty; several months later, they were joined by a French teacher from the French military mission. There were almost no textbooks, and while the natural sciences collection