YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY PLANS TO TURN INTO ‘A GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY’ IN 25 YEARS

/ARKA/
SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
YEREVAN

Yerevan State University rector Aram Simonyan unveiled today am
ambitious plan of turning Armenia’s state-run university into ‘a
global research university’ in 25 years.

"We want to become a university of global importance,’ the rector
told journalists Friday. According to him, Russia has two such
universities-the Moscow State University and the Saint Petersburg State
University. Aram Simonyan admitted that the quality of education at
Yerevan State University is not up to standards.

"We need to constantly perfect the quality of education and a lot is
being done to this end… I can say that no other Armenian university
is doing as much as we do,’ he said.

‘Education is an expensive pleasure and we need enough resources to
solve many organizational issues,’ he said.

Yerevan State University was established in 1919. It has 20 departments
and 13,000 students.