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Tajikistan
Higher Education and Research
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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