The Bachelor's Degree Program is intended for persons who have received full secondary education and successfully passed unified national exams.
In the unified national exams student must take following subjects: Georgian language and literature, Any Foreign language, Math or History.
Voluntary: Any elective subject.
Students should submit the following documents to register for the undergraduate program:
Registration for freshmen
Attention:
You will be reminded that the registration for freshmen will be conducted from 29 August to 8 September, 12.00-18.00 at the following address: Tabukashvili # 27 (# 1 Brose street).
List of documents:
Payment can be made at any branch of TBC Bank (both in Tbilisi and in all cities or regions)
Account Number:
Name of the Recipient – Georgian Institute of Public Affairs
Settlement report - GE84TB1100000110700419 / GEL
Bachelor’s Program in International Relations
The purpose of the Bachelor program in International Relations (IR) is to train students who will have a good knowledge of international relations and related fields, wide education, analytical and critical reasoning skills, ability to outline general models of main sub-fields learned through the process of the program. Upon successful completion of a program, students will be able to comprehend the outstanding topics of international politics and relations, will have basic knowledge to continue further studies and research activities in the given fields. The program will equip students with enough skills and knowledge to pursue employment in public service, non-governmental sector or international organizations and contribute to strengthening country’s security and foreign policy, international peace, and democracy.
Study Plan:
International Relations Program curriculum
Name of the Educational Program: Bachelor’s Program in International Relations
Qualification to be awarded: Bachelor of International Relations
Amount of Program in Credits: 240 ECTS
The language of Instruction: Georgian
Level of Higher Education: Bachelor’s Degree
Type of the Educational Program: Academic
Tuition Fee
The annual fee for the program is 4,500 GEL. Payments can be made in four installments. After successful completion of the program, students are awarded a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations.
Funding
In case of obtaining the state grant (100%, 70% and 50%), the student will receive a scholarship (1000GEL) from GIPA in the first academic year. Scholarship will be retained by the student on the basis of academic performance in the following years. Apart from the state grant, this program gives students a chance to receive GIPA’s co-financing (during the academic year).
Co-financing is distributed among top 5 students:
1st place – 1,000 GEL
2nd place – 1,000 GEL
3rd place - 700 GEL
4th place - 700 GEL
Payment can be made at any branch of TBC Bank (both in Tbilisi and in all cities or regions)
Account Number:
Name of the Recipient – Georgian Institute of Public Affairs
Settlement report - GE84TB1100000110700419 / GEL
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Online address: