STUDY MBBS IN AKAKI TSERETELI STATE UNIVERSITY
Akaki Tsereteli State University (Georgian: აკაკი წერეთლის სახელობის სახელმწიფო
უნივერსიტეტი, translit.: ak'ak'i ts'eretlis sakhelobis sakhelmts'ipo universit'et'i), also
known as Kutaisi University (Georgian: ქუთაისის უნივერსიტეტი, translit.: kutaisis
universit'et'i), is a university established in July 1930 in Tbilisi, Georgia, and now
located in Kutaisi.
The university was established on the basis of Tbilisi State University. Tbilisi State
University had been founded under guidance of Georgian historian Ivane Javakhishvili in
1918. In July 1930, when Georgia had already fallen under Soviet rule, the authorities
abolished Tbilisi State University, creating four independent institutions in its place.
State Pedagogical Institute was one of those universities.
On January 8, 1933 Tbilisi State University was re-established and State Pedagogical
Institute moved to Kutaisi. Now named Kutaisi University and located in the center of the
city, it started functioning from February 13, 1933. Up to 700 students moved to Kutaisi
from Tbilisi to continue their studies at the university.
In 1990, the university was transformed into Akaki Tsereteli State University, being named
after Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure Akaki Tsereteli. On February 23,
2006, the authorities merged the university with Kutaisi N. Muskhelishvili Polytechnic
Institute which was founded on September 1, 1974, enhancing its faculty and curriculum on
technical subjects.