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Tajikistan
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By the late 1980s, Tajikistan had twenty institutions of higher
education. Despite the ample number of such institutions, the proportion
of students receiving a higher education (115 per 10,000 inhabitants) was
slightly below the average for the Soviet republics in the late 1980s. In
scientific and technical fields, Tajikistan ranked near the bottom among
Soviet republics in the proportion of residents receiving advanced
degrees. During the Soviet era, Russian, rather than Tajik, was the
preferred medium of instruction in several fields of higher education.
The first institution of higher education in Tajikistan was the State
Pedagogical Institute in Dushanbe, which opened in 1931. Tajikistan State
University opened in 1948. By the mid-1980s, about 14,000 students were
enrolled in the university's thirteen departments. At that time, admission
was highly competitive only for applicants seeking to study history,
Oriental studies, Tajik philology, and economic planning. In 1994 the
university had 864 faculty in fourteen departments and 6,196 full-time
students.
The Tajikistan Polytechnic Institute opened in Dushanbe in 1956, then
was reclassified as a university after independence. In 1994 it offered
training in energy, construction, mechanical engineering, automobile
repair, road building, and architecture. In 1996 preparations began to
open a new university for the Pamiri peoples; it was to be located in
Khorugh, the capital of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province.
Data as of March 1996
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