Faculties and Academic Programs at TSU: Today Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University is one of the first and most respected scientific-research and higher educational institutions, with approximately 22,000 students. TSU carries out about 200 local and international scientific grant programs annually.
TSU offers a wide variety of degree programs at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels, and short-term courses in English. Along with Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral programs, the university implements higher vocational education courses, as well as short- and long-term certification programs.
There are 7 Faculties at TSU:
- Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Social and Political Science
- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
- Faculty of Economics and Business
- Faculty of Medicine
TSU follows the modern European system of education and quality assurance; it has been part of the Bologna process since 2005 and shares the principles of the EUA. This also implies building quality assurance and expert evaluations and compliance with the ESG standards. The quality of study programs is assured by the evaluation processes including internal assessment, external review, international participation and cooperation.
Expertise and Methodology: TSU shares the ideals promoted by the Magna Charta Universitatum and its values are based on critical, creative and progressive thinking, the principles of academic freedom and academic ethics; open, dynamic and transparent relations. The university’s faculty members are experts in their fields. Beside the teaching, they also are very active participants in different international research projects, conferences, programs.
Internationalization and Outreach: The internationalization of TSU is fast-paced and aims at creating a multicultural environment that will enhance teaching and research opportunities. TSU promotes equality of access to education, and believes in engaging and valuing all students and staff. Working in close cooperation with foreign universities, Georgian students can participate in exchanges and joint international educational programs to earn double academic degrees. Among more than 200 programs offered by TSU, more than 20 are delivered fully or partially in English; this includes programs that lead to joint or double degrees, and many of them have international accreditation (ABET or FIBAA). At the same time, TSU offers regular teaching of more than 40 languages including some extinct as well as several endangered languages. TSU has more than 300 institutional partners in 56 countries. TSU is an active member of different prestigious international networks,
For more information, please, visit https://www.tsu.ge/en
Contact Persons
Salome Dundua
Academic coordinator
Associate professor, Department of Political Science; Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences; PhD in Political Science. She is the head of Master Programm ‘Political Analysis and Public Policy’ at Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences’. With teaching experience of 20+ years, her fields of expertise are as follows: Political Theory, political ideologies, social movements, education and politics; She is an author of several scientific articles published in the journals in highly ranked scientific databases. She is also an active participant of ERASMUS + academic mobility program, giving lectures in different European universities.
Sandro Tabatadze
Head of Quality Management Board
Sandro Tabatadze is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Tbilisi State University. He is also the faculty’s head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. His area of research mainly focuses on Euroscepticism, the far right, political parties, and comparative public policy. Dr. Sandro Tabatadze, a reviewer for WoS and Scopus-indexed international journals, is MC member of CA “Linking Euroscepticism and populism: causes and consequences”. Besides, he is leading the research project investigating the relationship between far-right and Euroscepticism in the Black Sea and South Eastern European countries.