Yerevan State University

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Yerevan State University (Armenian: Երեվանի Պետական Համալսարան) is a university, located in Yerevan, Armenia. It was founded on May 16, 1919. Its faculties contain 110 departments. Of its 3,150 employees, 1,190 comprise the teaching staff which includes 25 academicians, 130 professors, 700 docents (associate professors), and 360 assistant lecturers. The university has 400 researchers, 250 post-graduate students, and 9,500 undergraduates, including 300 students from abroad. Instruction is in Armenian, but instruction in Russian and English for foreign students is arranged according to need. The academic year is from September 1 through June 30.

[edit] History

The old building of Yerevan State University of Armenia.

Yerevan State University was established in December, 1920. It was officially inaugurated on January 23, 1921.

The university was initially called Yerevan Popular University and was situated on Astafyan (now Abovyan) street in the building of the former teaching seminary, which was built around 1900-1906 (in the second floor in 1933-1935 and in the right porch of studying part in 1939 – architecture V. Mirzon).

The construction of new filial-branches (architecture E. Tigranyan) began in the fifties in the territory between Mravyan and Charents streets and is still there. The first president of YSU was H. Manandyan (1921).

Initially there were two faculties: of physical sciences and of social sciences. Later new ones were inaugurated – agricultural, oriental, and technical (1921). In 1923 the labor faculty was jointed. In 1930 Polytechnic, Medical, Cooperative and Pedagogical Institutes were established in Yerevan on the base of the faculties of YSU.

[edit] Schools and Faculties

Exact Sciences
- Faculty of Biology
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Faculty of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
- Faculty of Geography
- Faculty of Geology
- Faculty of Mathematics
- Faculty of Mechanics
- Faculty of Physics
- Faculty of Radiophysics

Humanitarian Sciences
- Faculty of Armenian Philology
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of History
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Oriental Studies
- Faculty of Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology
- Faculty of Romance and Germanic Languages
- Faculty of Russian Philology
- Preparatory Faculty for Foreign Students