Tajik National University
Tajik National University (Russian: Таджикский национальный университет; Tajik: Донишгоҳи Миллии Тоҷикистон, romanized: Donishgohi Millii Tojikiston) is the first and largest university in Tajikistan. It enrolls 23,000 students per year in 18 different academic disciplines.
Type | Public |
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Established | 21 March 1947 |
Rector | Khushvakhtzoda Q. Kh |
Students | 23,000 |
Postgraduates | 400+ |
1,200 | |
Other students | 183 a |
Address | Rudaki str. 17, 734025 , , Tajikistan 38.5628°N 68.8003°E |
Language | Tajik, Russian, English |
Website | www |
University rankings | |
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Regional – Overall | |
QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[1] | 241-250 (2022) |
The head office of the university is located in the capital city of Tajikistan.
Tajik National University prepares extensive human resources for the economy of Tajikistan, from journalists to finance professionals and managers. President Emomali Rahmon and the former chairman of the National Bank of Tajikistan Murodali Alimardon are alumni.
History
TNU was formed on 21 March 1947.[2] In 2009, a high school and Mathematics discipline were established at the university.
Facilities
The university encompasses publishing, a research library, a botanical garden, a hostel, 114 departments (107 special departments) and a military chair and high school. For the industrial and practical training of students in the establishment, the functioning educational and production bases are Takob, Ziddi and Javoni.
The university has 154 doctors, professors and 509 candidates of sciences. TNU has 8 dissertation councils over 10 areas in which each year around 100 master's and doctoral theses are defended.
Its scientific library with 945 000 copies of scientific, educational, fiction and periodicals.
TNU Research Institutes offers 110 research laboratories, electronic library with access to more than 12 million digital online sources, bio-technology Centre, Techno Park, Center for Language Studies, Cultural Education Center “Confucius”, Center of periodicals, printing and translation center. It emphasizes “Russian world”, and the cultural centers of Iran and Pakistan.
Academic departments
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of International Relations
- Faculty of Economics and Management
- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Faculty of Accounting and Economics
- Faculty of Journalism
- Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
- Faculty of Physics
- Faculty of Philology
- Faculty of Geology
- Faculty of Languages of Asia and Europe
- Faculty of Philosophy
- Faculty of Psychology
- Faculty of Finance and Economy
- Faculty of Biology
- Faculty of History
- Faculty of Russian Language and Literature
Notable alumni
- Salimjon Aioubov – journalist, reporter and writer
- Guljahon Bobosodiqova – Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR and the Supreme Soviet of the USSR[3]
- Sherali Khayrulloyev – former Minister of Defense of Tajikistan.
- Rohat Nabieva - Historian, wrote Women of Soviet Tajikistan (1967)
- Umarali Quvvatov – an outspoken critic of veteran Tajik leader Emomali Rahmon[4]
- Emomali Rahmon – current president of Tajikistan
References
- "QS World University Rankings-Emerging Europe & Central Asia". Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- Kholdzhuraev, Khabibullo Kholdzhuraevich (1970). Dissertat︠s︡ii istorikov po materiȧlam Tadzhikistana (in Russian). p. 21.
- Bashiri, Iraj (2002). Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century. Dushanbe, Tajikistan: International Borbad Foundation, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. p. 59. OCLC 501842788.
- "Vocal critic of Tajik president shot dead in Istanbul". Channel NewsAsia. 6 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.