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2,400 students of state-run universities in Armenia to be entitled to
free education this year
YEREVAN, April 30. /ARKA/. Some 2,400 students of state-run
universities in Armenia will be entitled to free education this year,
while another 19,999 students will have to pay, education and science
minister Armen Ashotyan told a cabinet session today.
This year, as previously, 2,123 of them will enjoy military service
deferment if want, 135 students' tuition fees will be paid by
sponsors. They will too have the military service deferment right
while other 258 will have no such a right.
The minister said 1,715 students would engage in their master
curricula at the expense of the government this academic year. Of
them, 1,312 will not have their military services deferred. Some 100
discharged servicemen will have an opportunity to be enrolled in the
universities this year and 403 students will have a right for military
service deferment.
Ashotyan said 140 Ph.D. students whose tuition fees are paid by the
government will have military service deferment right. There will be
also 239 distant-learning Ph.D. students in the 2014-2015 academic
year.
There are 16 state-owned, 35 private universities in Armenia now.
There are also several international universities, such as
Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, the American University of
Armenia and the French University in Armenia. -0---
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free education this year
YEREVAN, April 30. /ARKA/. Some 2,400 students of state-run
universities in Armenia will be entitled to free education this year,
while another 19,999 students will have to pay, education and science
minister Armen Ashotyan told a cabinet session today.
This year, as previously, 2,123 of them will enjoy military service
deferment if want, 135 students' tuition fees will be paid by
sponsors. They will too have the military service deferment right
while other 258 will have no such a right.
The minister said 1,715 students would engage in their master
curricula at the expense of the government this academic year. Of
them, 1,312 will not have their military services deferred. Some 100
discharged servicemen will have an opportunity to be enrolled in the
universities this year and 403 students will have a right for military
service deferment.
Ashotyan said 140 Ph.D. students whose tuition fees are paid by the
government will have military service deferment right. There will be
also 239 distant-learning Ph.D. students in the 2014-2015 academic
year.
There are 16 state-owned, 35 private universities in Armenia now.
There are also several international universities, such as
Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, the American University of
Armenia and the French University in Armenia. -0---
- See more at: http://arka.am/en/news/society/2_400_students_of_state_run_universities_in_armeni a_to_be_entitled_to_free_education_this_year/#sthash.0lxouxuh.dpuf