Socioeconomic and political situation of contemporary Romanian society has led to changes in terms of dominance significance of the factors that can determine whether a person is / group of people from one social class to another. The level of education is one of the determinants of training middle class. In this paper, we propose to analyze the role of education (cultural capital) in the formation of the middle class in Romania. The data, which we will call this analysis come both from research conducted in recent years in Romania and from databases of national and international institutions authorized in collecting and processing statistical data (Eurostat, INS).