The Georgian Technical University will no longer merge with Tbilisi State University, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced at a briefing at the Government Administration.

According to him, only technical faculties will remain at the Technical University. The Prime Minister said the university will stop announcing admissions from the next academic year for programs that fall outside its technical profile.

“In accordance with the ‘One City, One Faculty’ principle, the Georgian Technical University will be transformed into a purely technical university, one of the main directions of our higher education concept. In the future, only disciplines that were taught at the university before the 1990s and were included in its core academic program will remain. Starting from the next academic year, the Technical University will no longer announce admissions to programs that were not part of its pre-1990 curriculum. Non-technical programs will continue temporarily in a transitional phase over the next two years. The two universities will no longer be merged. Accordingly, admissions to non-technical specialties at the Technical University will no longer be offered starting this year,” the Prime Minister said.

Irakli Kobakhidze says that the meeting with the representatives of the Georgian Technical University was quite long, interesting and, most importantly, productive.

“The support of the Georgian Technical University for the reform that we have announced is very important for us. The representatives of the Technical University once again confirmed that the university fully supports the changes envisaged by the government concept of the higher education reform, including the plan for the qualitative renewal of the university infrastructure, the “one city – one faculty principle”, the idea of ​​strengthening universities in the regions, the transition to essentially 3+1 study programs, the plan for strengthening the connection between teaching and research and refining the personnel policy, and the introduction of a new funding model. We had interesting discussions on this. The support of the representatives of the Technical University for the reform is very important for us,” noted Irakli Kobakhidze.