San Diego State University to have new campus in Tbilisi
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San Diego State University (SDSU) in Georgia, which offers American degrees in the country, will have a new campus by the end of the year.
The new building in central Tbilisi will be equipped with modern facilities, with electrical and civil engineering labs, classrooms, teaching and common areas.
The construction of the academic building started in August 2017 and is expected to be fully finished and equipped by the end of 2018.
The new campus is financed through the US MCC compact. Photo from the Education Ministry press office.
The four-floor building, on 4,000 square meters, will be located on Cholokashvili Avenue, in Vake, Tbilisi.
The new campus will be with Ilia State University.
For now SDSU cooperates with three Georgian universities: Tbilisi State University, Ilia State University and Georgia’s Technical University.
The new campus will be within the US Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) second compact.
- SDSU, through funding from the US MCC, has offered internationally accredited Bachelor of Science programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in Georgia since 2015.
- Georgia gained its second Compact from the MCC, worth $140 million, in 2013 for education. From this money, over five years $76 million will be spent on general education, $16 million on vocational education and $30 million on higher education.
San Diego State University in Georgia hosted its official Convocation Ceremony to mark the start of the new academic year and accepting of new students to its programs.
Georgian students are being given the chance to gain and American education and earn internationally-recognised qualifications while remaining on home soil thanks to a fruitful partnership between Georgia and the US.
Institutional cooperation between the universities of the two countries will expand joint educational programs and the issuance of French diplomas in Georgia.
The projects and activities carried out by the Millenium Challenge Account in Georgia were discussed at a supervisory board meeting headed by PM Kvirikashvili yesterday.
Georgian Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Mikheil Batiashvili has announced about the building of a new campus in Tbilisi, on the territory of the Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University upper building in the Saburtalo district.