NEWLY APPOINTED RA EDUCATION MINISTER PROMISSES ENTRANCE EXAMS TO
LOCAL UNIVERSITIES WILL BE FAIR AND TRANSPARENT

Yerevan, July 18. ArmInfo. Levon Mkrtchian, newly appointed RA
Education and Science Minister, stated that the entrance exams to the
Armenian universities will be fair and transparent. He said that the
entrance exams will launch on July 20 and added that it is planned to
open a special site that will fully cover the process of the exams.
This year, the exam marks will not be rounded off. Minister stated that
at present the given system of evaluation is the most convenient one.

As for the tuition fees, Mkrtchian said that thanks to the contract
system the university students will be able to pay a fixed sum of money
that will not change in the course of the education process. He added
that at present not a single local university has increased the tuition
fee as compared with the last year. The most expensive university is
still the Yerevan State Medical University, while the faculties of
International Relations and the Law Departments are the leading ones.

According to Mkrtchian, 12 413 entrants applied to the local
universities. This indicator surpassed that of the last year by 500
entrants. Minister stated that this year the entrants’ interest to
the Yerevan State Economic University has grown, as 1633 people
applied to that. Besides, as compared with 2005, the number of
entrants who applied to the faculties of the English Language at
various universities has also grown. The Yerevan State University
has 671 free of charge vacancies, while the Yerevan State Medical
University has only 148. In total, there are 4 342 free of charge and
5 598 paid vacancies opened at the Armenian universities. Mkrtchian
stated that just like in the previous years the faculties of Physics,
Biology and Chemistry are not popular.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress