According to published information from Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University is considered to be an important educational, scientific and cultural center of our country. It has a 85-year-long history.
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University comprises 7 faculties: Economics and business, humanities, exact science and education, law and social sciences, natural sciences and health care, technologies, tourism. It also embraces the 3 Research Institutes of Niko Berdzenishvili Institute, Agrarian and Membrane Technologies Institute, Institute of Phytopathology and Biodiversity. At present about 6 000 students study at the vocational, Bachelor, Master and Doctoral programs.
The facilities and equipment of the Shota Rustaveli State University have been increasing and improving step-by-step, number of students increasing, teaching programs improving, new specialties introduced, qualified staff prepared. The teaching and research processes involve 273 professors, 71 researchers and 387 visiting professors.
The University has been authorized since 2011 in accordance with №117, dated August 04 2011 and №56, dated August 27 2018 Decisions of the Authorization Council of the National Centre for Educational Quality Enhancement. Currently the University implements the following Accredited Educational programmes: 7 authorized vocational, 31 BA, 24 MA, 19 PhD, 2 single-cycle, 1 integrated BA-MA, 1 Teacher Preparatory Educational Programmes and 1 Educational Programme of Preparatory Course in Georgian Language. The University maintains traditional, fundamental fields as well as establishes and develops new directions in compliance with the modern requirements. Moreover, the University intensively applies contemporary, including electronic, teaching/learning methods.
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University is a multi-functional educational and scientific institution where a unified space of academic and professional education and research is created with the cooperation of students, professors, teachers and researchers. A number of scientific-research projects of international and national significance have been accomplished on the university base.
The university has close partnership relations with the leading higher educational institutions within and outside the country. BSU is considered a desirable host for the international scientific conferences and symposia held in various fields of science. Apart from this, the academic and scientific faculty of the university actively participates in scientific conferences and exchange programs in different countries of the world.
Fees for medical studies start from 4000 USD.