Georgia
University degrees and single-cycle medical education.
Study overview
Georgia offers business, technology, social-science and medical study through public and private institutions. Medicine is a six-year single-cycle qualification. The National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement records institutional authorisation and programme accreditation within Georgia’s quality-assurance system.
Tuition / Year
TSMU standard English Medical Doctor programme: published US$8,000/year. GEL is a planning conversion; American MD is separately priced.
Living / Month
Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA), Tbilisi, example combining rent and food/daily costs. Transport, insurance, deposits and utilities outside rent are additional.
Typical degree length: Bachelor’s: 3–4 years
Master’s: usually 2 years
Medicine: 6 years
Fields: Medicine; dentistry; business; computing; social sciences.
Official references
- https://tsmu.edu/ts/content.php?aid=220&bid=313&cid=0&did=0&eid=0&id=7&lang=en
- https://gipa.ge/eng/school/show/saertashoriso-urtiertobebis-samsakhuri
- https://tsmu.edu/ts/content.php?aid=135&bid=92&cid=327&did=0&eid=0&id=7&lang=en
- https://www.geostat.ge/media/77120/Indicators-of-Higher-Education-Institutions---(2025-2026-ACADEMIC-YEAR).pdf
- https://eqe.ge/en/page/static/69/umaghlesi-ganatleba
- https://eqe.ge/en/page/static/971/samedicino-ganatlebis-khariskhis-uzrunvelyofa-saqartveloshi
- https://nmc.org.in/page/information-desk-for-students-to-study-abroad
- https://nmc.org.in/storage/cms/rules-regulation-nmc/yFQCJ2Bf9yZU5zBfLCNUFIFG2E3optNdIAQfas9Z.pdf
- https://nmc.org.in/page/rules-regulations-rules-regulations-nmc
- https://webdisk.natboard.edu.in/deptnotice
Study and admission
Qualifications and provision
Authorised institutions offer a wider subject range than medicine, including newer three-year English-language bachelor’s programmes.
Bachelor’s, master’s and integrated degrees
Georgia uses bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels, alongside integrated professional qualifications. Programme duration is not identical across the current bachelor’s catalogue: three-year and four-year routes are both present. International Black Sea University, for example, publishes a three-year, 180-credit English-language Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence degree. Credits follow the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System. Medicine follows a separate integrated structure of six years and 360 credits; dentistry normally comprises five years and 300 credits. A generic four-year bachelor’s label therefore does not accurately describe every programme.
Authorisation and accreditation
The National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement is Georgia’s higher-education quality authority. Institutional authorisation establishes whether a provider is entitled to operate as a higher-education institution and issue recognised qualifications within its authorised scope. Programme accreditation is a separate quality process applied to the educational programme. A provider’s presence on the authorised list therefore does not, by itself, describe every course’s current accreditation status. The regulator publishes institutional decisions and programme information separately, including the applicable terms and conditions of its quality decisions.
Computing, business and creative subjects
International provision extends beyond health sciences. Caucasus University’s bachelor’s catalogue includes computing and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, business, diplomacy, architecture and graphic design, with the teaching language and duration identified for individual programmes. Its catalogue also contains international joint-degree routes. Kutaisi International University publishes English-language and bilingual bachelor’s admission arrangements in areas including computing, management, mathematics and design. These examples show the importance of the actual programme specification: one university can offer courses with different credit totals, fee currencies, partner arrangements and academic entry expectations.
The medical curriculum and its limits
Tbilisi State Medical University’s English-medium Medical Doctor programme comprises six academic years, twelve semesters and 360 European credits. Its curriculum brings together biomedical foundations, clinical learning and professional competencies. A medical-school catalogue describes the academic qualification; it does not award a licence to practise abroad. The term ‘MD’ in this context denotes an integrated entry-to-medicine qualification, rather than necessarily a postgraduate research doctorate. Recognition for professional registration remains a separate process in the country where the graduate intends to practise.
Official references
Admission and student costs
Foreign-school applicants can use specified national-examination exemptions, followed by institutional assessment and qualification recognition.
The foreign-qualification pathway
Georgia provides statutory routes through which eligible foreign-educated applicants can enrol without the Unified National Examinations used in the standard domestic admission system. Eligibility depends on citizenship and educational history under the applicable category; it is not a blanket exemption for every applicant with a foreign passport. Tbilisi State University describes a sequence involving the faculty’s assessment, institutional consent, recognition of foreign education and the relevant ministry decision. Admission to a particular programme therefore combines national administrative recognition with the university’s academic requirements.
Documents and institutional assessment
Tbilisi State University’s international application information distinguishes identity documents, the qualifying diploma and transcript, language evidence and programme-specific assessment. Foreign educational documents are submitted with the required Georgian translation and notarisation for the recognition procedure. A faculty may conduct an examination where its programme requires one. The university’s consent precedes the national recognition and enrolment stages described in its procedure. An application acknowledgement, a conditional faculty decision and final student registration are therefore different administrative events, rather than interchangeable forms of an unconditional admission offer.
Official references
A named tuition and language example
For its published 2026–27 foreign-citizen bachelor’s intake, Kutaisi International University lists annual tuition of EUR 5,500 for Computer Science and Management, EUR 1,000 for Mathematics and Applications, and EUR 4,000 for Design. Its published English evidence begins at B1 level and is accompanied by an online interview. These are programme-specific terms, not a national Georgian minimum or fee schedule. The university states that payment is made in Georgian lari using the National Bank exchange rate applicable at payment.
Official references
Tbilisi rent and everyday spending
The Georgian Institute of Public Affairs gives a June 2026 illustration of central Tbilisi apartment rent at approximately GEL 1,000–1,500 a month and food and daily expenditure at GEL 600–700. Taken together, those two components amount to GEL 1,600–2,200 before any additional charges not covered by the estimate. The institution states that it does not provide dormitory accommodation. This is a local rental example, not a guaranteed student-housing tariff. Sharing an apartment changes the per-person calculation, while deposits and initial household purchases affect arrival costs.
Official references
Entrance and language assessments
Unified National Examinations
Applies to: Standard domestic bachelor’s admission; specified foreign-route exemptions
Eligible foreign-educated applicants can use a statutory exemption route. Citizenship and schooling conditions determine eligibility; exemption does not remove institutional assessment.
Common Master’s Examination
Applies to: Standard master’s route; specified exemptions
Georgia provides exemption categories for certain foreign-educated applicants. Universities can retain their own academic and language assessments for the chosen master’s programme.
English certificate and interview
Applies to: Kutaisi International University foreign bachelor’s intake
The published route uses English evidence from B1 level plus an online interview. Other Georgian programmes can require a higher level or different accepted evidence.
Faculty assessment
Applies to: Programme-specific international applicants
Tbilisi State University can require a faculty examination as part of its international admission assessment. This is separate from the national recognition of the school qualification.
https://www.tsu.ge/en/international-student/page/Study-at-TSU-1
Scholarships and funding routes
IBSU international bachelor’s tuition scholarship route
Support: Up to US$1,000 tuition scholarship advertised against the US$4,900 fee for entrants outside Georgia’s Unified National Examinations route.
Eligibility: Published on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Management and International Relations programme pages for the foreign-admission fee category.
Application: International admission application to IBSU under the foreign-applicant process.
Conditions: The programme pages state a maximum award but do not publish selection criteria, duration or renewal terms. No maintenance benefit is stated.
Caucasus University TOP 501 entrance scholarship
Support: 100% tuition funding for qualifying undergraduate entrants.
Eligibility: CU programme selected as first preference and a place among the top 501 entrants nationwide in Georgia’s Unified National Examinations.
Application: National examination admission route with CU as the first programme preference.
Conditions: National-examination award rather than an international direct-entry scholarship. Joint degrees are excluded; living expenses are outside the stated tuition benefit. CU identifies funding-policy changes during education reforms.
Caucasus University postgraduate CU Grant competition
Support: 50% tuition funding under the 2026/27 schedule; for example, annual MBA tuition falls from GEL12,990 to GEL6,495 with the grant.
Eligibility: Bachelor’s GPA of at least 3.5, or at least 65% of the maximum combined score on the Unified Master’s Examination.
Application: Application to the relevant CU master’s programme and entry into the CU Grant competition.
Conditions: Thresholds establish competition eligibility. Joint/dual degrees are excluded. Continuation requires timely first-year completion and GPA 3.8; 1+1 programmes also require uninterrupted progression.
Erasmus+ credit mobility to Georgia
Support: Host tuition, registration and examination fees are waived; funded places may include travel and living-cost contributions determined by the institutional project.
Eligibility: Students enrolled at a participating home institution, selected and nominated under an eligible inter-institutional agreement.
Application: Home-university selection and nomination followed by the Georgian host’s exchange application and learning agreement.
Conditions: Temporary study credits, not a full degree award. At Caucasus University, first/final-year students are excluded and B2 English evidence is required. Partnership alone does not guarantee grant funding.
Selected university profiles
Use the official register for the full institutional list and current status; this directory is a selection. Check separate programme accreditation decisions as well. The displayed institutional list is labelled May 2025.
National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement: institution register
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Tbilisi State University organises education through seven faculties, including psychology and educational sciences. Its research infrastructure includes scientific institutes, physics and chemistry laboratories, a Bloomberg laboratory and the Grakliani Hill archaeological field base. These facilities support work across the sciences, humanities, social sciences and professional disciplines.
- Subjects
- Natural sciences; Humanities; Economics and business; Law; Medicine
- Address
- 1 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, Academic Building I, Tbilisi 0179, Georgia
- Website
- https://tsu.ge/en
- academicaffairs@tsu.ge
Official references
- https://tsu.ge/en
- https://www.tsu.ge/en/international-student/page/Study-at-TSU-1
- https://reestri.eqe.ge/en/search
- https://tsu.ge/en/news/თბილისის-სახელმწიფო-უნივერსიტეტს-ოფიციალური-სიმბოლიკა-აქვს
- https://www.tsu.ge/en/foreign-relations/page/faculties
- https://www.tsu.ge/en/scientific-relations/page/Scientific-Laboratories-DSRD
Ilia State University
Ilia State University combines faculties of arts and sciences; business, technology and education; and natural sciences and medicine with a law school. Its research network includes the Savle Tsereteli Institute of Philosophy and medical research units, integrating specialist institutes with undergraduate and postgraduate education.
- Subjects
- Arts and sciences; Natural sciences; Business; Technology and education; Law
- Address
- 3/5 Kakutsa Cholokashvili Avenue, Tbilisi 0162, Georgia
- Website
- https://iliauni.edu.ge/en
- info@iliauni.edu.ge
Official references
- https://iliauni.edu.ge/en
- https://study.iliauni.edu.ge/en/contact/
- https://study.iliauni.edu.ge/en/contact-information/
- https://iliauni.edu.ge/en/study/ids-homepage/contact1
- https://reestri.eqe.ge/en/search
- https://codfreurcor.iliauni.edu.ge/universites-membres/
- https://faculty.iliauni.edu.ge/
- https://research.iliauni.edu.ge/en/institution
- https://iliauni.edu.ge/en/iliauni/AcademicDepartments/sainjinro-fakulteti-270/kvlevebi
Georgian Technical University
Georgian Technical University provides engineering and applied-science education alongside architecture, agriculture and business. Its academic structure includes Mining Geology and Sustainable Mountain Development, Agricultural Sciences and Chemical Technologies, and an International School of Design. Scientific institutes and research centres form a separate component of the university’s organisation.
- Subjects
- Engineering; Architecture; Computer science; Agricultural sciences; Business technologies
- Address
- 77 Kostava Street, Tbilisi 0160, Georgia
- Website
- https://gtu.ge/en/index2.php
- interstudy@gtu.ge
Tbilisi State Medical University
Tbilisi State Medical University specialises in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health and rehabilitation. Its structure includes an international faculty of medicine and stomatology and scientific research institutions. The Iovel Kutateladze Institute of Pharmacochemistry adds research in medicinal substances and pharmaceutical science to the university’s professional health education.
- Subjects
- Medicine; Dentistry; Pharmacy; Public health; Physical medicine and rehabilitation
- Address
- Administrative Building, 33 Vazha-Pshavela Avenue, Tbilisi 0186, Georgia
- Website
- https://tsmu.edu/ts/index.php?lang=en
Official references
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University groups teaching into faculties covering economics and business, exact sciences and education, humanities, law and social sciences, natural sciences and healthcare, technologies, and tourism. Its catalogue includes an English-taught Medical Doctor programme alongside other academic degrees and separate vocational provision.
- Subjects
- Economics and business; Humanities; Natural sciences and healthcare; Technologies; Tourism
- Address
- 35 Ninoshvili Street / 32 Rustaveli Street, Batumi 6010, Georgia
- Website
- https://bsu.edu.ge/?lang=en
- info@bsu.edu.ge
Akaki Tsereteli State University
Akaki Tsereteli State University’s Kutaisi academic structure includes separate technical and technological engineering faculties, as well as agriculture, medicine, humanities and pedagogy. A maritime-transport faculty extends its professional provision. The university offers bachelor’s and master’s programmes and a distinct teacher-preparation route within this faculty network.
- Subjects
- Engineering; Agriculture; Medicine; Humanities; Business and law
- Address
- 59 Tamar Mepe Street, Kutaisi 4600, Georgia
- Website
- https://atsu.edu.ge/en/
- info@atsu.edu.ge
Official references
Samtskhe-Javakheti State University
Samtskhe-Javakheti State University’s four faculties cover education, humanities and social sciences; business administration; law; and engineering, agrarian and natural sciences. Its programmes include an integrated veterinary medicine master’s degree and a joint astronomy doctorate with Georgia’s Evgeni Kharadze National Astrophysical Observatory.
- Subjects
- Education and humanities; Business administration; Law; Engineering; Agrarian and natural sciences
- Address
- 113 Rustaveli Street, Akhaltsikhe, Georgia
- Website
- https://sjuni.edu.ge/en/sjsu/
Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University
Telavi State University’s three faculties cover education and humanities; social sciences, business and law; and agrarian, natural sciences and technologies. Its provision includes an integrated bachelor’s and master’s route for primary-school teachers, a separate teacher-training programme and Georgian-language preparation, alongside other undergraduate and postgraduate study.
- Subjects
- Education; Humanities; Business and law; Agrarian sciences; Natural sciences and technologies
- Address
- 1 Kartuli Universiteti Street, Telavi 2200, Georgia
- Website
- https://tesau.edu.ge/en
- info@tesau.edu.ge
Gori State University
Gori State University has three academic units: humanities; education, exact and natural sciences; and social sciences, business and law. Its catalogue distinguishes bachelor’s and master’s degrees from other educational programmes. Separate vocational provision extends the university’s teaching beyond its academic degree structure in the Shida Kartli region.
- Subjects
- Humanities; Education; Natural sciences; Business; Law
- Address
- 53 Chavchavadze Avenue, Gori, Georgia
- Website
- https://gu.edu.ge/en/
- contact@gu.edu.ge
Free University of Tbilisi
Free University of Tbilisi is based at the Kakha Bendukidze Campus. Its programmes include business, law, physics, computer science, mathematics and engineering, with a separate visual art, architecture and design school. Research units include cognitive neuroscience, memory and anxiety, and Asia and Africa studies.
- Subjects
- Business administration; Law; Mathematics and computer science; Physics; Electronic and computer engineering
- Address
- Kakha Bendukidze Campus, 240 Davit Aghmashenebeli Alley, Tbilisi 0159, Georgia
- Website
- https://freeuni.edu.ge/en/
Official references
- https://freeuni.edu.ge/en/
- https://freeuni.edu.ge/ge/news/programs/
- https://freeuni.edu.ge/en/educational-programs/bachelor/school-of-mathematics-computer-science-and-engineering/electro-and-computer-engineering-program/?program=program
- https://reestri.eqe.ge/en/search
- https://www.freeuni.edu.ge/ge/students/bachelor-students/
- https://freeuni.edu.ge/en/educational-programs/bachelor/visual-art-architecture-and-design-school/visual-art-program/
Caucasus University
Caucasus University’s schools cover business, law, media, technology, architecture and design, governance, humanities and social sciences, tourism and medicine. Its undergraduate portfolio includes joint programmes in business administration with Rennes School of Business and cybersecurity with New Jersey City University, alongside standard CU degrees.
- Subjects
- Business; Law; Technology; Architecture and design; Tourism
- Address
- 1 Paata Saakadze Street, Tbilisi 0102, Georgia
- Website
- https://cu.edu.ge/en
- info@cu.edu.ge
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia provides programmes through schools including business and administrative sciences, science and technology, and health sciences. Its health teaching facilities include a simulation hospital equipped with medical simulators and mannequins, a medical theatre for scenario-based teaching, and the Reavita UG rehabilitation clinic.
- Subjects
- Arts and humanities; Business administration; Science and technology; Education; Law
- Address
- 77a Merab Kostava Street, Tbilisi 0171, Georgia
- Website
- https://ug.edu.ge/en
- info@ug.edu.ge
Official references
- https://ug.edu.ge/en
- https://ug.edu.ge/en/programs
- https://ug.edu.ge/en/tuition-and-fees
- https://www.ug.edu.ge/en/programs/2
- https://reestri.eqe.ge/en/search
- https://ug.edu.ge/ge/symbolics
- https://www.ug.edu.ge/en
- https://ug.edu.ge/en/centrebi-da-laboratoriebi-full/simulation-hospital
- https://www.ug.edu.ge/en/centrebi-da-laboratoriebi-full/medicinis-eatri
- https://www.ug.edu.ge/en/centrebi-da-laboratoriebi
International Black Sea University
International Black Sea University organises programmes through schools of business; law and state governance; education, humanities and social sciences; computer science and architecture; and medicine. Its catalogue includes bachelor’s and master’s degrees, a Medical Doctor programme and a separate teacher-training qualification at its Tbilisi campus.
- Subjects
- Business; Computer science and artificial intelligence; Architecture; Law; Education and humanities
- Address
- 2 Davit Aghmashenebeli Alley, 13th kilometre, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Website
- https://ibsu.edu.ge/en/
Georgian American University
Georgian American University is organised into five schools covering business; law, social sciences and diplomacy; informatics and engineering; humanities and liberal arts; and medicine. Its Medical Doctor programme lasts six years and carries 360 ECTS credits, combining biomedical foundations, clinical subjects and final-year clinical attachments.
- Subjects
- Business; Law and diplomacy; Informatics and engineering; Humanities; Medicine
- Address
- 10 Merab Aleksidze Street, Tbilisi 0160, Georgia
- Website
- https://www.gau.edu.ge/en
- info@gau.edu.ge
European University
European University combines faculties of medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine with business, technology, law and social sciences. It owns Jo Ann University Hospital, which provides a clinical setting for medical students. Its teaching therefore spans professional healthcare education and nonclinical disciplines across several Tbilisi buildings.
- Subjects
- Medicine; Dentistry; Veterinary medicine; Business and technology; Law and social sciences
- Address
- 76 Guramishvili Avenue, Tbilisi 0141, Georgia
- Website
- https://eu.edu.ge/en/
Official references
- https://eu.edu.ge/en/
- https://eu.edu.ge/en/contact/
- https://vetpro.eu.edu.ge/en/contact-us/
- https://eu.edu.ge/en/about-us/about-university/
- https://eu.edu.ge/en/incoming-mobility-for-students/
- https://reestri.eqe.ge/en/search
- https://eu.edu.ge/en/faculties/faculty-of-medicine/
- https://eu.edu.ge/en/clinical-practice-at-jo-ann/
Alte University
Alte University’s schools cover business, law and social sciences, information technology, and international medicine. Its portfolio includes bachelor’s, master’s and single-cycle medical programmes. Medical Doctor students undertake clinical subjects at the affiliated Ivane Bokeria University Hospital, connecting the medical curriculum with hospital-based teaching in Tbilisi.
- Subjects
- Business; Law and social sciences; Information technology; Medicine
- Address
- 10 University Street, Tbilisi 0177, Georgia
- Website
- https://alte.edu.ge/en
- Info@alte.edu.ge
Further institutions
| Institution | Location and type | Official website | Book page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural University of Georgia | Tbilisi / Private university | https://agruni.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Apolon Kutateladze Tbilisi State Academy of Arts | Tbilisi / Public arts academy | https://art.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Batumi State Maritime Academy | Batumi / Public maritime academy | https://bsma.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Batumi State Teaching University of Arts | Batumi / Public arts university | https://batu.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| BAU International University Batumi | Batumi / Private university | https://bauinternational.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Business and Technology University | Tbilisi / Private university | https://btu.ge/ | 102 |
| Caucasus International University | Tbilisi / Private university | https://ciu.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Central University of Europe | Kutaisi / Private university | https://cue.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| David Aghmashenebeli University of Georgia | Tbilisi / Private university | https://sdasu.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| David Tvildiani Medical University | Tbilisi / Private medical university | https://dtmu.ge/ | 102 |
| East European University | Tbilisi / Private university | https://eeu.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Georgian Aviation University | Tbilisi / Private university | https://ssu.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Georgian Institute of Public Affairs | Tbilisi / Private university | https://gipa.ge/ | 102 |
| Georgian National University SEU | Tbilisi / Private university | https://seu.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Grigol Robakidze University | Tbilisi / Private university | https://gruni.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Kutaisi International University | Kutaisi / Public university | https://kiu.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| New Vision University | Tbilisi / Private university | https://newvision.ge/ | 102 |
| Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy | Tbilisi / Private medical institution | https://tma.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Saint Andrew the First-Called Georgian University | Tbilisi / Private university | https://sangu.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Shota Meskhia Zugdidi State University | Zugdidi / Public university | https://zssu.ge/ | 102 |
| Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University | Tbilisi / Public university | https://tafu.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Sokhumi State University | Tbilisi / Public university | https://sou.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University | Tbilisi / Private university | https://sabauni.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| Tbilisi Vano Sarajishvili State Conservatoire | Tbilisi / Public conservatoire | https://tsc.edu.ge/ | 102 |
| University Geomedi | Tbilisi / Private university | https://geomedi.edu.ge/ | 102 |