Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Address: Avenue Chavchavdzevda, 1
P.C.: 0179
City: Tbilisi
Country: Georgia
Phone: +995 32 2 221103
Email: rector@tsu.ge
Website
IRO Email: international@tsu.ge

History and objectives

Ivane Kavakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) is the first national university of Georgia and the first institution of higher education in the South Caucasus region. It established formal education in the country, created the local intellectual workforce and paved the way for human development and democracy. The University was founded on 8 February 1918 as a comprehensive European-style institution of higher education and for more than 100 years has been awarding degrees to men and women and promoting the ideals of equality, justice and progress. Today, Tbilisi State University is a research-intensive institution focusing on four main pillars of action: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international perspective.
The mission of our university is:

• To establish comprehensive national and international academic values and to support
  the intellectual, cultural and socio-economic development of society.
• To produce and disseminate cutting-edge knowledge.
• To sustain and deepen the research capacity and tradition of innovation.
• To train competitive personnel.
• To have an exemplary offer of student-centred, more comprehensive, longer and more advanced (LLL) education.
• To maintain an honourable and distinguished position in the international higher education community.

The university shares the ideals promoted by the Magna Carta of European universities and its values are based on critical, creative and progressive thinking; the principles of academic freedom and academic ethics; open, dynamic and transparent relationships.