PREVAILING PART OF ARMENIAN DIASPORAN ENTRANTS IS FROM GEORGIA

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Oct 16 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. 2338 Armenian
Diasporan students have started their education in the higher
educational institutions of Armenia since October 1. 1924 of them
study in state and 335 in non-state higher educational institutions,
and 79 in middle special educational institutions. According to
the information provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent by the RA
Ministry of Education and Science, the prevailing part of students,
that is 1152, are from Georgia, 390 from Iran, 315 from Russia and
139 from Syria.

According to the same source, most of the 70 state order places,
that is 45, have been allocated to the State Pedagogical University
of Armenia to the Armenology and pedagogics specialities.

The Armenian Diasporan entrants enter Armenian higher educational
institutions without taking an examination, that is to say, by an
interview.