Free University of Tbilisi

თავისუფალი უნივერსიტეტი

Basic information

  • Identifiers
    • DEQARINST3021
    • GE0024
    • WHED: IAU-016199

      • IAU World Higher Education Database (WHED)

      Identifier used in the world-wide WHED database of higher education institutions, managed by the International Association of Universities (IAU) - data harvested from ETER/OrgReg

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    • ROR: https://ror.org/05rr3y439
    • GE-national: 211359448
  • Provider type
    higher education institution
  • Legal seat(s)
    Tbilisi, Georgia
  • Website
    http://freeuni.edu.ge/
  • Founding year
    2007
  • QF-EHEA levels
    third cycle, second cycle, first cycle
  • Permalink
    https://data.deqar.eu/institution/3021

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Accreditation of educational programmes
    It is mandatory for doctoral programmes and programmes of regulated professions (Medicine, Law, Teacher Education, Veterinary, and Maritime) and it is an eligibility requirement for state funding in the case of all other study programmes.
  • Authorization and re-authorisation of higher education institutions
    is obligatory for all HEIs in order to be allowed to carry out educational activities and to issue a diploma that is recognized by the state (every six years)
  • Further information on external quality assurance in Georgia

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

No results found.

Programme level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Biology (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctor of Biology
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF 8th (Doctorate))
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive Joint programme
Biology (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • ბიოლოგია
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctor of Biology
    • ბიოლოგიის დოქტორი
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Joint programme with
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Building Systems' Engineering (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Engineering in Construction Engineering and Management
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Business Law (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Private Law
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF VII)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Chemistry (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctor of Chemistry
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF 8th (Doctorate))
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Computer Science and Mathematics (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • კომპიუტერული მეცნიერება და მათემატიკა
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Computer Science
    • კომპიუტერული მეცნიერების ბაკალავრი
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Governance and Social Sciences (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor in Social Sciences
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Interior Design (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Interior Design
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
International relations (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of International relations
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
International Relations (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor in International Relations
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Law (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • სამართალი
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Law
    • სამართლის ბაკალავრი
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Mathematics & Computer Science (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor's in Mathematics & Computer Science
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6 level)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive Joint programme
Natural sciences (Joint Programme) (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • 1. Master of Physics, 2. Master of Chemistry, 3. Master of Biology
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF VII)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Joint programme with
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Operations Management (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Business Administration in Operations Management
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF Master)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Physics (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctor of Physics
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF 8th (Doctorate))
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Physics (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Science in Physics
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Visual Art (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Fine Arts
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Visual Communication (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Visual Communication
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
სოციალური მეცნიერებები (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Social Sciences
  • Qualification/award
    • სოციალური მეცნიერებების მაგისტრი
    • Master of Social Sciences
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.