New Building of Yerevan State University Being Built

NEW BUILDING OF YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY BEING BUILT

YEREVAN, JULY 16, ARMENPRESS: Some 1,500 students of the Yerevan
State University majoring in linguistics, philosophy, psychology and
journalism will have their classes in a new building of the University
the construction of which is supposed to be completed in 2005,
according to the schedule. The cost of the new building is $1.5
million, 25 percent of which was provided by benefactors, 35 percent
by the government and the rest were the funds of the University.

The new three-storey building occupies 5,000 square meters and will
comply with all requirements for students majoring in Humanities.

In another education-related development, Bishop Abraham Mkrtchian,
the prelate of the Syunik diocese of the Armenian church, told
Armenpress that the construction of Gitelik (Knowledge) University in
Yeghegnadzor, the regional center of Vayots Dzor province, is ending
and soon it will enroll students to major in 8 departments.