Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 18. Chapters: Akaki Tsereteli State University, Caucasus University, David Aghmashenebeli University of Georgia, Free University of Tbilisi, Georgian State University of Subtropical Agriculture, Georgian Technical University, Gori University, International Black Sea University, International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University, Kutaisi Institute of Medicine, List of universities in Georgia, Shota Rustaveli State University, Sukhishvili University, Tbilisi State Institute of Economic Relations, Tbilisi State Medical University, Telavi Iakob Gogebashvili State University, The University of Georgia (Tbilisi). Excerpt: Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgian: Ivane Javaxishvilis saxelobis Tbilisis saxelmts'ipo universit'et'i), better known as Tbilisi State University (TSU), is a university established on 8 February 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. TSU is the oldest university in the whole Caucasus region. Over 18,000 students are enrolled and the total number of faculty and staff (collaborators) is approximately 5,000. Tbilisi State University.Photo by Paata VardanashviliThe University has five branches in different regions of Georgia, 6 faculties, approximately 60 scientific-research laboratories and centers, a scientific library (with more than 3,700,000 books and periodicals), 7 museums, publishing house and printing press (newspaper "Tbilisis Universiteti"). Tbilisi University has close contacts with many foreign scientific and educational centres, these are the University of Saarland and Jena University (Germany), Emory University and Georgia State University (USA), Saint Mary's University (Canada), Warsaw University and University of od (Poland), University of Malaga and University of Salamanca (Spain), Nantes, Paris 8, Paris 13, Grenoble and Toulon Universities (France), Bristol Polytechnical Institute, Brunel and London Universities (Great Britain), Budapest Eotvos Lorand University (Hungary), Bilkent, Trabzon Black Sea and Ankara Universities (Turkey), Palermo, Rome and Sapienza, Piza and Venice Universities (Italy), Athens, Pirueus, Ioanina and Saloniki Universities (Greece), International Centre of Nuclear Physics, Aarhus University (Denmark), Bucharest University (Romania), University of Vienna (Austria), Tehran and Gilan Universities (Iran), Cairo University (Egypt). TSU has relations with Association of European Universities, UNESCO, the Council of Europe and other international organizations. The main founder of the University was a well-known Georgian historian and academician, Ivane Javakhishvili. Several noted scientists - Giorgi Akhvlediani, Shalva Nut