The Distance Learning Centre (DLC) was created with a decision of the Academic council on 19 April 2005.
    
     Its main functions, connected with teaching are:
    
     - Organising the training of lecturers, participating in the distance learning form of education;
    
     - Familiarising the students with the main features of distance learning;
    
     Working in collaboration with coordinators of programmes to achieve the aims of distance learning;
    
     - Following the development of tools and technologies for distance learning and proposing updates of the currently used technologies at the university.
    
     After the institutional accreditation in 2006 the Centre was granted a third technology level of distance learning. This means that the centre has a dedicated server with guaranteed high-speed internet access, on which the teaching materials and modules for training and evaluation will be published.
    
     The distance-learning form of education of students in a given degree programme can start after a corresponding programme accreditation and after the documentation and distance learning courses have been set in accordance with the internal regulations for distance learning of the University of Ruse.
    
     The centre has an Internet based e-learning system, in which teaching materials have been published (syllabi, lectures, workshops, tests, etc.) for more than 140 courses. In 2010 the University of Ruse started distance learning education in the following two Master degree courses: Technology and Management of Transport Transport Engineering and Technologies