Akaki Tsereteli State University

Akaki Tsereteli State University is one of the country’s oldest higher education institutions with a wide range of educational programs and research directions. The University strives to fulfill the following goals: Implement high-quality educational programs at each level of higher education; Promote the development of the vocational education system through modern vocational education programs; Conduct modern and actual scientific research; Take account of the priorities of the social, economic and cultural development of the region and the country for the educational and research activities; Support the inculcation of humanism, democracy, national and international values upon the society. Kutaisi Akaki Tsereteli State University was actually formed on the basis of Tbilisi State University. In 1918 under the direction of the great son of the Georgian nation Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University was founded. In July, 1930 the government abolished the Tbilisi State University and on its basis four independent higher education institutions were created. One of them was State Pedagogical Institute, which starting from that period to 1933 was functioning in Tbilisi.