Yerevan State University
Երեվանի Պետական Համալսարան
Established	May 16, 1919
Type	Public
Rector	Aram Simonyan
Students	13,000
Undergraduates	8,500
Postgraduates	1320
Doctoral students	180
Location	Yerevan, Armenia 40°10′53.91″N 44°31′34.75″E / 40.1816417°N 44.5263194°E / 40.1816417; 44.5263194Coordinates: 40°10′53.91″N 44°31′34.75″E / 40.1816417°N 44.5263194°E / 40.1816417; 44.5263194
Nickname	YSU
Website	http://ysu.am

Yerevan State University (YSU) (Armenian: Երեվանի Պետական Համալսարան) is a university, located in Yerevan, Armenia. It is the largest university in 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, 1350 post-graduate students, and 8,500 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.

Contents 1 History 2 Schools and faculties 3 External links 4 See also

[edit] History

Yerevan State University was established in May, 1919 and was officially inaugurated on January 23, 1921.

The university was 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.

The construction of new buildings (architect E. Tigranyan) began in the fifties in the territory between Mravyan and Charents streets, they are 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 and Mechanics
  • Faculty of Physics
  • Faculty of Radiophysics
  • IT Educational and Research Center

• Humanitarian Sciences
  • Faculty of Armenian Philology
  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of History
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of International Relations
  • 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

[edit] External links

• Official site

[edit] See also

• Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction
• American University of Armenia
• State Engineering University of Armenia
• Yerevan State Linguistic University
• Yerevan State Medical University
• Yerevan State Musical Conservatory
• Yerevan State Pedagogical University
• Eurasia International University
• Russian-Armenian State University

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