Organization:Urgench State University

Short description: University in Urgench, Uzbekistan

Urgench State University

Urganch Davlat Universiteti (UrDU)
Former name	1942—1991: Khorezm State Pedagogical Institute 1991—2017: Urgench State University after named Al-Khorezmi
Type	Public
Established	1942
President	Doctor Bakhrom Ismoilovich Abdullayev
Academic staff	over 1000
Administrative staff	over 800
Students	over 30 000
Address	14, Khamid Alimdjan , Urgench , Khorezm , 220100 , Uzbekistan
Campus	Republic of Uzbekistan, 220100, Urgench, Khamid Alimdjan, 14.
Language	Uzbek, Russian
Website	www.urdu.uz

Urgench State University (UrSU) (Uzbek: Urgench Davlat Universiteti (UrDU); Russian: Ургенчский государственный университет) is a major university in Urgench, Uzbekistan established by the decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimova dated 1 September 1992 in the city of Urgench. The university is commonly known as Urgench University (in Uzbek Urganch universiteti)

History

The university was initially organized in 1942 as the Khorezm State Pedagogical Institute. In 1991–2017, the university was named after great mathematician and philosopher Al-Khorezmi (alternative transliteration Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi) as Urgench State University after named Al-Khorezmi.

In 2017, the Urgench State University after named Al-Khorezmi was finally renamed the Urgench State University, a name it keeps to date. The rector of the university is Dr. Bakhrom Ismoilovich Abdullayev since 2016.

At present, there are 9 faculties and 43 departments. The university provides 96 Bachelor programs; 37 Master programs; 31 Doctoral programs, 5 joint bachelor programs; 6 joint master programs. The total number of teaching staff working at the university is 826, including 211 doctors of sciences (DSC), professors and PhDs.

Faculties

Currently, the university comprises the following faculties:

• Physics and Mathematics
• Foreign Philology
• Uzbek Philology
• Natural and agricultural sciences
• Pedagogy
• Sports and art
• Socio-economic sciences
• Technics
• Chemical technology

International partners

Urganch State University has signed agreements and cooperated with more than 80 prestigious higher education institutions of 30 countries in order to expand the geography of cooperation with foreign higher education institutions in the field of education and science.

Professors and teachers of higher education institutions of a number of countries, such as Russia , the USA, Ukraine , Poland , Slovenia, Korea, Iran and the Republic of Belarus are involved in the educational process.

All this is important because it is aimed at improving the university in all aspects, creating favorable conditions for students to get in-depth knowledge, providing modern material and technical base, training personnel with high scientific potential.

As university has established strong ties and collaboration with foreign universities, a lot of international projects have been implemented and are being constantly evolving at UrSU such as, CLASS, EPCA, ELBA,, IRES , 3D Digital Silk Road , English for STEM, SUMRICA and ICM projects with the universities such as University of L'Aquila, University of Porto, Keele University, University of Padova, University of Cantabria,Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Science, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, University of Santiago de Compostela, University of West Attica, Poitiers University, University of Primorska, Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University.

See also

• List of universities in Uzbekistan

External links

• Official website