Tbilisi State University programmes receive prestigious ABET accreditation
The Tbilisi university is the first in the region to receive the ABET qualifications for its programmes. Photo: Marco Fieber on Flickr.
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Students graduating from Tbilisi State University programmes of electrical engineering and computer science will benefit from international recognition of their degree, after the university received accreditation for the majors from the United States-based Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
The approval of its programmes has seen the oldest state university in the South Caucasus, which celebrated its centenary in 2018, also become the first in the region to receive the ABET qualification.
An update from the university said the news meant students of its Electric and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science majors would receive diplomas "competitive in any country of the world".
The new accreditation for the programmes is also retrospectively applied to 2017-2020 diplomas for the Computer Science programme and 2018-2020 graduations for the engineering majors at the Tbilisi university.
The ABET accreditation was granted to the degrees following a joint project involving Millennium Foundation, San Diego State University and partner universities in Georgia. The project is financed by MCC Georgia Compact II, a programme of the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the government of Georgia.
ABET accreditations are used for programmes - as opposed to universities - in applied and natural science, computing, engineering and engineering technology. The organisation says its standards have "become the basis of quality for STEM disciplines all over the world."
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