Number of Free and Paid Places Allocated for Bachelor's Educational Programs Announced

The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia plans to present for approval by the government the allocation of 2918 free and 22,300 paid places for the 2021/2022 academic year under the bachelor's and continuous integrated educational programs, fully covering tuition fees.

For the master's educational program (free), it is proposed to allocate 1391 places, of which 1099 are for state higher educational institutions.

The drafts of the government's decision regarding the allocation of admission places for higher educational institutions for the 2021/2022 academic year under the bachelor's and master's programs have been publicly discussed on the legal acts e-draft.am informational platform.

Under the bachelor's program, it is proposed to grant 88 of the free places to foreign citizens, including 70 places designated for applicants from the Armenian diaspora and 13 places for admission under intergovernmental agreements. Within the framework of the intergovernmental agreement, an additional 5 places will be allocated to the Military Medicine Faculty of Yerevan State Medical University named after M. Heratsi for the education of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

For the Artsakh Republic, 60 targeted places are allocated under the bachelor's educational program (excluding the places allocated for the Police Educational Complex of the Republic of Armenia and the National Academy of Crisis Management of the RA Ministry of Emergency Situations). Additionally, 350 places are planned for admission under the RA Ministry of Defense's "I Have Honor" program. A reserve of 62 places has been allocated.

Similar to previous years, this year separate admission places will also be allocated for graduates of educational institutions implementing the "Araratian Bachelor" program.

In the master's program of higher educational institutions for the 2021/2022 academic year, admission will be carried out in a number of new specialties (educational programs) such as "Geodesy and Cadastre," "Geographic Information Systems," "Engineering of Machinery and Equipment," "Soil and Water Resources Engineering," "Agro-Industrial Technologies," "Precision Agriculture," "Public and Military Administration," "Artificial Intelligence Systems," "Management of Nuclear Technologies," "Economics of Innovations," "Human Resource Management," "Marketing Communications," "Organization and Management of Public Services Business," "Applied Statistics," and more.

The draft includes a reserve of 9 places for applicants who have equal scores in the admission competition for the master's program.

In formulating the applications for free places, the interests of relevant organizations and universities' requests were taken into account, as well as the labor market demand based on the analysis of the career centers of universities. Priority has been given to specialties and educational programs in engineering, industry and technology, architecture and construction, computer, physical, biological sciences, agricultural sciences, and mathematics.

Interested organizations and individuals can submit their proposals and comments for places under the bachelor's educational program until March 2, and for the master's educational program until March 5 inclusive.