Partner Presentation: Shota Rustaveli State University

1. BSUBSU

2. The history of Shota
Rustaveli State University
dates back to 1935.
Initially it was founded as
the Pedagogical Institute
which had trained many
teachers for all over the
Western Georgia
throughout its history.
How the original building
looked like
University
Building now
The classical university was
founded on the basis of the
Pedagogical Institute in 1990.

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BSU used to be the classical type of the University until 2006;
In 2006 several research and educational institutions joined BSU
following the high educational system reforming;
The institutions had carried out applied research and trained
personnel in engineering, technologies, agrarian sector and etc.;

4. BSU comprises 7 faculties
and 3 Scientific Research
Institutes:
 Faculty of HumanitiesFaculty of Humanities
 Faculty of EducationFaculty of Education
 Faculty of Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences,
Business and LawBusiness and Law
 Faculty of Natural Sciences andFaculty of Natural Sciences and
HealthHealth
 Faculty of Physics-MathematicsFaculty of Physics-Mathematics
and Computer Scienceand Computer Science
 Faculty of TechnologyFaculty of Technology
 Faculty of TourismFaculty of Tourism
 Niko Berzenishvili InstituteNiko Berzenishvili Institute (Direction of Humanities(Direction of Humanities
and Social Studies)and Social Studies)
 Institute of Agrarian and Membrane TechnologiesInstitute of Agrarian and Membrane Technologies
 Phytopathology and Biodiversity InstitutePhytopathology and Biodiversity Institute

5. Main Priorities of our University:
 integration in the international educational
networks, sharing the experience of leading
foreign universities, taking into
consideration the needs of the employers
and the labour market while preparing the
specialists;
 relevance and integration of academic and
scientific-research activities.
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6. Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
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BSU offers wide range of options to students
at all the three stages of education: there are
about 42 vocational, 43 Bachelor’s, 23
Master’s, 9 doctoral and 2 single-level
programs.
At present about 6000 students study at the
University.
The staff consists of 245 professors, 67
researchers, over 300 part time staff.
Figures:

7. International Projects
Programs of ERASMUS MUNDUS action 2
“ALRAKIS I”; “ELECTRA”; “EUROEAST”,
“WEBB” “MEDIA”
18 TEMPUS
1 FP 7
1 Jan Monnet
Following programmes are being
implemented at our university too:
USAID , MEVLANA, Norwegian state
grant and number of projects financed
under the national scientific fund; 7

8. Department of Mathematics is
involved in the project
Briefly on the Department of Mathematics:
-The department counts its history from the
very first day of the foundation of the
university;
-It carries quite a wide scale research: Algebra,
Mathematical and Functional Analysis,
Topology, Geometry, Theory of Probability
and others;
-15 professors working;
-5 contracted staff ;
- 2 Bachelor programmes: 1. Mathematics;2.
Financial Mathematics
- Master programme in Mathematics
- PhD programme in Maths

9. Geographical location of the
University
The University is housed in four campuses
located in Batumi and outskirts of it. The
university has also two scientific centers in the
outskirts of Batumi and in Kobuteli;

10. 10Shota Rustaveli State University
Batumi is a seaside town along the Black Sea coast.
Batumi is the capital of Ajara Autonomous Republic in
southwest Georgia. Sometimes the town is considered to
be Georgia's second capital, with the population of about
125 000. Batumi serves as an important port and a
commercial center.
It is situated in a
subtropical zone, rich in
agricultural produce such
as citrus, fruit and tea.
Most of its economy
revolves around tourism.

11. Batumi
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Piazza
6 May Park
Old Boulvard
Square of Europe
Monument of
“Medea”
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The Black Sea coast of Green Cape
The Black Sea Batumi beach
The Black Sea Kobuleti shore
Batumi Sea Port
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13. Again on the University

15. Contact Information:
www.bsu.edu.ge
Vladimer Baladze ,
Professor
vbaladze@gmail.com
Turmanidze Lela, Associate
Professor
e-mail:
turmanidzelela@gmail.com
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
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16. Thank you for your attention!
Shota Rustaveli State
University
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