Ion Creangă Pedagogical State University (Universitatea Pedagogică de Stat "I. Creangă") is an educational institute in Chişinău (Kishinev), Moldova. It was formed in August 1940 as the Pedagogical Institute Moldovan State, being renamed the State Pedagogical Institute Ion Creanga in Chişinău in 1952, and receiving its current name on 21 May 1992. It is named after the Romanian writer and story-teller Ion Creangă. The university offers Bachelor, Master and Doctorate level degrees. Currently, there are over 6000 students in attendance in nine faculties at the university. The faculties are: Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technologies This is the newest faculty at the university, specializing in computer sciences. Faculty of Foreign Languages Founded on 1 September 1948, the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures was the first foreign language faculty in Moldova. The college offers language and literature courses in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Faculty of Psychology and Special Education The Faculty of Psychology and Special Education was formed in 1992 by merging the Faculty of Defectologie and the Department of General Psychology.