Georgian Technical University

Georgian Technical University (GTU, Georgian: საქართველოს ტექნიკური უნივერსიტეტი) is the largest technical university in Georgia, occupying a campus on Kostava Street in Tbilisi and tracing its origin to the polytechnic faculty founded in 1922 during Georgia's brief independence.格鲁吉亚工业大学（Georgian Technical University，简称 GTU，格鲁吉亚语称 საქართველოს ტექნიკური უნივერსიტეტი）是格鲁吉亚规模最大的理工大学，校区位于第比利斯科斯塔瓦街，其源头可追溯到 1922 年格鲁吉亚短暂独立时期创办的理工科系。

It became an independent polytechnic institute in 1928 and a university in 1990, and today enrols more than 22,000 students taught by around 2,500 faculty and staff across 12 faculties.该校于 1928 年成为独立的理工学院，1990 年升格为大学，如今在 12 个学院中教授 2.2 万余名学生，拥有约 2500 名教职员工。

GTU belongs to the European University Association, applies the ECTS credit system, holds ABET accreditation for its engineering programmes and sits in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校是欧洲大学协会成员，采用 ECTS 学分体系，工程类专业获 ABET 认证，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1401+ 区间。

History

• Tbilisi State University was founded in 1918, during Georgia's brief independence, as the first university in the Caucasus, and the polytechnic faculty created within it four years later became the nucleus of GTU.第比利斯国立大学于 1918 年格鲁吉亚短暂独立期间创办，是高加索地区第一所大学，四年后在其中设立的理工科系成为格鲁吉亚工业大学的前身。

• In 1922 the polytechnic faculty was organised as a distinct unit of Tbilisi State University, bringing civil engineering, power engineering and applied science teaching under one roof with its own staff and laboratories.1922 年，理工科系成为第比利斯国立大学下属的独立教学单位，把土木、动力与应用科学的教学集中于一处，并配备自己的师资与实验室。

• The first lecture of the new faculty was read by the Georgian mathematician Andrea Razmadze, after whom the Andrea Razmadze Institute of Mathematics is named. Razmadze died in 1929, only seven years after delivering that lecture.新学系的第一堂课由格鲁吉亚数学家安德烈亚·拉兹马泽讲授，安德烈亚·拉兹马泽数学研究所即以他命名。拉兹马泽于 1929 年去世，距那堂课仅七年。

• In 1928 the faculty was transformed into the independent Georgian Polytechnic Institute, named after Vladimir Lenin, with David Kandelaki as its first rector and the former faculty's staff and equipment as its base.1928 年，该系改组为独立的格鲁吉亚理工学院，以弗拉基米尔·列宁命名，达维德·坎德拉基出任首任院长，原学系的师资与设备成为建院基础。

• In 1930 the institute's construction, transport, mining and metallurgy, chemical technology, energy and land-reclamation departments were detached to form separate specialised institutes.1930 年，学院的建筑、交通、采矿冶金、化学工艺、能源与土地改良等部门分离出去，组建为多所专门学院。

• The same reorganisation produced the Transcaucasian Industrial Institute and the Transcaucasian Mining and Metallurgical Institute, which trained engineers for the wider Soviet Caucasus, and the Transcaucasian Institute of Railway Transport was added to the group.同一轮改组还产生了外高加索工业学院与外高加索采矿冶金学院，为整个苏联高加索地区培养工程师，外高加索铁路运输学院也加入了这一序列。

• In 1936 the institution was renamed the Georgian State Industrial Institute after Sergei Kirov, reflecting its consolidation as an industrial engineering school.1936 年，学院以谢尔盖·基洛夫命名为格鲁吉亚国立工业学院，标志着其作为工业工程院校的整合完成。

• In 1947 it recovered the name Georgian State Polytechnic Institute, again honouring Kirov, and resumed a broader polytechnic mandate after the war.1947 年，学院恢复格鲁吉亚国立理工学院之名，仍以基洛夫冠名，并在战后重新承担更广泛的理工教育职能。

• In 1959 the institute merged with the Tbilisi Institute of Railway Transport Engineers and was renamed the V. I. Lenin Georgian Polytechnic Institute, a name it carried until 1990.1959 年，学院与第比利斯铁路运输工程师学院合并，更名为 V·I·列宁格鲁吉亚理工学院，这一校名一直沿用到 1990 年。

• In 1990, as Georgia moved toward independence, the institute was granted university status and took its present name, Georgian Technical University, as the Soviet Union moved toward dissolution.1990 年，随着格鲁吉亚走向独立、苏联走向解体，学院升格为大学并改用现名「格鲁吉亚工业大学」。

• GTU became a full member of the European University Association in 2001, beginning its integration into European higher education structures.2001 年，该校成为欧洲大学协会正式成员，开始融入欧洲高等教育体系。

• Georgia joined the Bologna Process in 2005, and GTU accordingly adopted the ECTS credit system and the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree cycle, as Georgian higher education began moving away from Soviet-era specialist degrees.格鲁吉亚于 2005 年加入博洛尼亚进程，该国高等教育开始摆脱苏联时期的专家学位制度，该校随之采用 ECTS 学分体系与学士、硕士、博士三级学位制度。

• Archil Prangishvili served as rector from 2009 to 2020, a period in which the university expanded its international partnerships and research institutes.阿尔奇尔·普兰吉什维利自 2009 年至 2020 年担任校长，其间学校扩大了国际合作伙伴与研究机构。

• David Gurgenidze, a professor of technical sciences, has led the university since 2020 and continues its emphasis on engineering education and applied research.技术科学教授达维德·古尔格尼泽自 2020 年起领导该校，延续其工程教育与应用研究的重点。

• GTU marked its centenary in 2022, a hundred years after the first polytechnic lecture was delivered in Tbilisi.2022 年，该校迎来百年校庆，距第一堂理工课程在第比利斯开讲正好一百年。

• For most of the Soviet period the institute supplied the engineers, chemists and technical managers for Georgia's power, mining, metallurgy and machine-building industries.在苏联时期的大部分时间里，学院为格鲁吉亚的电力、采矿、冶金与机械制造工业输送工程师、化学家与技术管理人才。

• Over the decades it also built a network of 13 branch institutes across Georgia, extending technical education beyond the capital to regional centres across the country.数十年来，该校还在格鲁吉亚各地建立了 13 所附属学院，把技术教育从首都扩展到全国的区域中心。

• Its Soviet-era names alternated between industrial and polytechnic designations, through the changes of 1936, 1947 and 1959, and the present title was adopted only in 1990.该校苏联时期的校名在工业学院与理工学院两种称谓之间几经更迭，历经 1936 年、1947 年与 1959 年三次改动，直到 1990 年才采用现名。

Academics

• GTU's 12 faculties are Civil Engineering, Power Engineering and Telecommunications, Mining and Geology, Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Architecture and Urban Planning, Informatics and Control Systems, Transportation and Machine-Building, Business Technologies, Engineering Economics and Social Sciences, Law and International Relations, the International Design School and Agricultural Sciences and Bio-systems Engineering. Each faculty is headed by a dean who holds the rank of full professor.该校 12 个学院为土木工程、动力工程与电信、采矿与地质、化学工艺与冶金、建筑与城市规划、信息学与控制系统、交通与机械制造、商业技术、工程经济与社会科学、法律与国际关系、国际设计学院以及农业科学与生物系统工程。各学院由具有正教授职级的院长领导。

• The university offers 69 bachelor's programmes of 240 ECTS, 46 master's programmes of 120 ECTS and 38 doctoral programmes of 180 ECTS. The 240 ECTS bachelor's load corresponds to four years of full-time study.该校开设 69 个 240 ECTS 的学士项目、46 个 120 ECTS 的硕士项目与 38 个 180 ECTS 的博士项目。240 ECTS 的学士课程相当于四年全日制学习。

• A total of 211 educational programmes are accredited, alongside 44 active vocational programmes drawn from a catalogue of 184. Vocational courses are shorter than degree programmes and lead to a certificate rather than a degree.该校共有 211 个教育项目获得认证，另有从 184 个职业项目目录中开设的 44 个在用职业课程。职业课程比学位项目短，颁发证书而非学位。

• Teaching is organised in 59 departments and 127 scientific-educational centres, with 17 affiliated research institutions and a Scientific-Technological Centre for Sensory Electronics and Materials Sciences supporting laboratory and field work. The centre works on materials science and sensor devices.教学分布于 59 个系与 127 个科学教育中心，另有 17 个附属研究机构以及一个传感电子与材料科学科技中心支撑实验室与野外工作。该中心从事材料科学与传感器件研究。

• More than 22,000 students are enrolled, taught by around 2,500 faculty and staff, making GTU the largest technical university in the country, with roughly nine students for every member of staff.该校注册学生超过 2.2 万人，由约 2500 名教职员工授课，是格鲁吉亚规模最大的理工大学，师生比约为一名教职员对九名学生。

• The scientific library is one of the largest in Georgia, holding 1,254,000 books, many of them rare, together with 500,000 periodical items, and it serves readers from all 12 faculties.该校科学图书馆是格鲁吉亚最大的图书馆之一，藏有 125.4 万册图书（其中不少为珍本）以及 50 万件期刊资料，为全部 12 个学院的读者服务。

• GTU estimates that it has supplied more than 60 per cent of Georgia's engineering, chemistry and scientific-industry specialists over the past eighty years, an estimate covering the Soviet and post-Soviet periods.该校估计，过去八十年间格鲁吉亚工程、化学与科学产业领域的专业人才有 60% 以上出自 GTU，这一估计涵盖苏联时期与后苏联时期。

• Thirteen branch institutes around Georgia extend GTU's programmes to regional cities and industrial towns.分布于格鲁吉亚各地的 13 所附属学院把 GTU 的课程延伸到区域城市与工业城镇。

• The Caucasus Business School is a joint project of GTU, Tbilisi State University and Georgia State University in Atlanta, and it draws on the American partner's business curriculum.高加索商学院是 GTU、第比利斯国立大学与美国亚特兰大佐治亚州立大学三方合办的项目，并借鉴美方伙伴的商科课程。

• A Cisco Networking Academy on campus offers industry certification in networking, and the university also hosts German Studies and Franco-Georgian Studies units, which combine language teaching with area studies.校内的思科网络技术学院提供网络技术行业认证，学校还设有德语研究与法格研究单位，把语言教学与区域研究结合起来。

• GTU maintains close ties with the Andrea Razmadze Institute of Mathematics, the leading mathematical research institute in the South Caucasus, a separate research body based in Tbilisi.该校与南高加索最重要的数学研究机构安德烈亚·拉兹马泽数学研究所保持密切合作，该研究所是设于第比利斯的独立研究机构。

• Engineering programmes have obtained ABET accreditation, aligning GTU degrees with international engineering education standards, ABET being the main American accreditor of engineering and computing programmes.工程类专业已获得 ABET 认证，使该校学位与国际工程教育标准接轨，ABET 是美国工程与计算类专业的主要认证机构。

• The International Design School adds architecture, urban design and visual communication to the university's engineering portfolio.国际设计学院在学校的工程学科版图中加入了建筑、城市设计与视觉传达。

• The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Bio-systems Engineering applies engineering methods to Georgian agriculture, food production and rural infrastructure.农业科学与生物系统工程学学院把工程方法应用于格鲁吉亚的农业、食品生产与乡村基础设施。

• Most students, apart from those in humanities and arts, follow rigorous training in mathematics and the fundamental sciences in their first years, a foundation intended to prepare them for advanced engineering analysis.除人文与艺术专业外，多数学生在前几年都要接受严格的数学与基础科学训练，为后续的工程分析打下基础。

• The university publishes through its own Technical University publishing house and maintains a Polytechnic Museum on campus, and its publishing house has issued textbooks and monographs since the Soviet period.该校通过自有的「技术大学」出版社出版著作，并在校内设有理工学院博物馆，出版社自苏联时期起便印行教科书与专著。

• Quality assurance is handled by a dedicated service, every faculty dean and department head is a full professor, and the rector, David Gurgenidze, heads the academic council, while the Quality Assurance Service is headed by Irma Inashvili.学校设有专门的质量保障部门，各学院院长与系主任均为正教授，校长达维德·古尔格尼泽主持学术委员会，质量保障部门由伊尔马·伊纳什维利领导。

• GTU awards the Diploma of Specialist, the Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts, the Master of Science and the doctorate, with the first three degrees requiring four to four and a half years of full-time study, a master's one and a half to two years and a PhD three years or more.该校授予专家文凭、理学士与文学士、理学硕士以及博士学位，前三种学位需全日制修读四年至四年半，硕士需一年半至两年，博士则需三年以上。

• All of these degrees are also offered as part-time and distance programmes, which take considerably longer to complete than the corresponding full-time courses.上述学位同时以非全日制与远程方式开设，修读时间比相应的全日制课程长得多。

Campus

• The main campus stands at 77 Kostava Street in the Saburtalo district of Tbilisi, the address used on the university's official documents.主校区位于第比利斯萨布尔塔洛区科斯塔瓦街 77 号，这一地址见于该校正式文件。

• Seen from above, the main building's footprint is said to resemble the hammer and sickle, a legacy of its Soviet-era design.从空中俯瞰，主楼的平面轮廓据说形似锤子与镰刀，这是苏联时期设计的遗留。

• The campus is served by the Technical University station on the Tbilisi metro, which connects it directly with the city centre.第比利斯地铁「技术大学」站服务该校，把它与市中心直接连接起来。

• The scientific library occupies a central position on campus and is one of the largest book collections in Georgia, with reading rooms open to students of every faculty.科学图书馆位于校园核心位置，是格鲁吉亚规模最大的藏书机构之一，其阅览室向各学院学生开放。

• The Polytechnic Museum preserves instruments, models and documents from the institute's engineering teaching since 1922.理工学院博物馆保存着自 1922 年以来工程教学使用的仪器、模型与文献。

• Seventeen affiliated research institutions and 127 scientific-educational centres give the campus a research-intensive character unusual for a technical university of its size.17 个附属研究机构与 127 个科学教育中心使校园具有超出同类规模工科院校的研究密度。

• The 13 branch institutes place GTU facilities in Georgian regions beyond Tbilisi, including industrial and agricultural towns.13 所附属学院把 GTU 的教学设施布置在第比利斯以外的工业与农业城镇。

• Modern laboratories support work in power engineering, telecommunications, mining, metallurgy, biotechnology and control systems, and they are used for both teaching and contract research.现代化实验室支撑动力工程、电信、采矿、冶金、生物技术与控制系统等领域的教学科研，同时用于教学与委托研究。

• Tbilisi's mild climate and the campus's position on the city's western bank place it within reach of the capital's research institutes and technology firms.第比利斯气候温和，校区位于城市西岸，便于联系首都的科研机构与技术企业。

• Many of the library's books are unique or rare, and the university has announced plans to digitise the collection for remote use, so that rare editions can be consulted by scholars elsewhere in Georgia.图书馆的许多藏书属于孤本或珍本，该校已宣布将馆藏数字化的计划，以便格鲁吉亚其他地区的学者也能查阅珍本。

Reputation

• GTU is placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the tied final segment of the table rather than a single numbered position, since QS groups every university below the 1400th place in this band.GTU 在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1401+ 区间，这是榜单末端的并列区间而非单独名次，QS 将第 1400 名之后的大学统一归入该区间。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 it appears in the 2001+ band, the final band reported by THE.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位于 2001+ 区间，这是该榜报告的最末区间。

• It is listed in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global university ranking without receiving a numerical position, and it did not enter the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities main table.该校进入 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单但未获具体名次，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

• The QS EECA University Rankings 2025 placed GTU in the 251-300 band among universities of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.2025 年 QS 新兴欧洲与中亚大学排名将 GTU 列入 251-300 区间。

• GTU is the main and largest technical university in Georgia, a position it has held since the Soviet period, and no other Georgian institution is classified as a technical university of comparable size.GTU 是格鲁吉亚主要且规模最大的理工大学，这一地位可追溯至苏联时期，该国没有其他同类规模的理工大学。

• The university reports that more than 60 per cent of the country's engineering, chemistry and scientific-industry specialists have trained there over the past eighty years, a figure it presents as its own estimate rather than an official statistic.该校报告称，过去八十年间全国工程、化学与科学产业的专业人才有 60% 以上在该校受过训练，这一数字是校方自己的估计而非官方统计。

• Full membership of the European University Association since 2001 underpins its European partnerships and degree recognition.该校自 2001 年起成为欧洲大学协会正式成员，为其欧洲合作与学位互认提供支撑。

• ABET accreditation of its engineering programmes gives GTU graduates credentials recognised by employers in the United States and other signatory countries.工程类专业的 ABET 认证使该校毕业生获得美国及其他签约国雇主认可的资质。

• Within Georgia GTU is the principal supplier of engineers to the power, mining, metallurgy and machine-building sectors, distinguishing it from the more general Tbilisi State University, which is known for law, economics and the humanities.在格鲁吉亚国内，GTU 是电力、采矿、冶金与机械制造部门工程师的主要来源，这使其区别于以法律、经济与人文学科见长的综合性第比利斯国立大学。

• The university's centenary in 2022 was marked as a national event, underlining its role in a century of Georgian technical education.该校 2022 年的百年校庆被视为全国性事件，凸显其在格鲁吉亚百年技术教育中的角色。

Student life

• GTU has no formal Latin motto, and its public identity rests on its claim to be Georgia's leading technical university and on its Soviet-era engineering tradition. No Latin motto appears in its official materials.GTU 没有正式的拉丁文校训，其公共形象建立在「格鲁吉亚领先理工大学」的定位与苏联时期的工程传统之上，官方材料中也不见拉丁文校训。

• The institute's football team competed in the Georgian SSR championship and won the republican title, and the celebrated footballer Boris Paichadze studied there, football remaining the institute's best-known sport through the Soviet period.该校足球队曾参加格鲁吉亚苏维埃社会主义共和国锦标赛并夺得共和国冠军，著名足球运动员鲍里斯·派恰泽曾在此求学，足球也是苏联时期该校最广为人知的运动。

• Students and Alumni Relations, Sport and Culture is a dedicated university section that organises athletic and cultural activity for the student body and maintains contact with graduates.「学生与校友关系、体育与文化」是学校专门部门，负责组织学生的体育与文化活动，并与毕业生保持联系。

• About 22,000 students attend GTU, including some 440 international students recorded in its QS profile, most of them from the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East.该校约有 2.2 万名学生，其 QS 资料记录约 440 名国际学生，多来自高加索、中亚与中东。

• The scientific library and the Polytechnic Museum give students access to rare technical literature and to the institute's historical collections, and the museum is directed by Manana Tevzadze.科学图书馆与理工学院博物馆为学生提供珍稀技术文献与校史收藏，博物馆由马纳娜·捷夫扎泽领导。

• The Cisco Networking Academy and the Caucasus Business School run certificate and professional courses alongside degree teaching, and the Cisco academy prepares students for the company's networking certifications.思科网络技术学院与高加索商学院在学位教学之外开设证书与职业课程，思科网络技术学院还帮助学生备考该公司的网络技术认证。

• Campus life is closely tied to Tbilisi, whose theatres, museums and research institutes lie within a short metro ride of the Kostava Street site.校园生活与第比利斯紧密相连，剧院、博物馆与科研机构距科斯塔瓦街校区只有几站地铁。

• The 13 branch institutes give students in regional towns access to GTU programmes without moving permanently to the capital.13 所附属学院使区域城镇的学生无需长期迁居首都即可修读 GTU 课程。

Notable people

• Andrea Razmadze, the mathematician who delivered the first polytechnic lecture in 1922, is commemorated by the Andrea Razmadze Institute of Mathematics. Razmadze died in 1929, seven years after that first lecture.1922 年讲授第一堂理工课程的数学家安德烈亚·拉兹马泽，由安德烈亚·拉兹马泽数学研究所纪念。拉兹马泽于 1929 年去世，距那第一堂课七年。

• David Kandelaki was the first rector of the independent Georgian Polytechnic Institute, serving from 1928 to 1930.达维德·坎德拉基是独立后的格鲁吉亚理工学院首任院长，任期为 1928 年至 1930 年。

• Giorgi Gvarjaladze led the institute from 1930 to 1937, through the period when several specialised institutes were detached from it.吉奥尔吉·格瓦贾拉泽自 1930 年至 1937 年领导学院，经历了多所专门学院分离出去的时期。

• Artyom Bodzhgua served as rector from 1937 to 1948, covering the wartime years and the return to a polytechnic mandate in 1947.阿尔乔姆·博德日古阿于 1937 年至 1948 年任院长，任内经历战争时期与 1947 年恢复理工建制。

• Iosif Buachidze was rector from 1958 to 1973, the longest tenure in the institute's Soviet-era leadership, and he presided over the 1959 merger with the railway transport institute.约瑟夫·布阿奇泽于 1958 年至 1973 年任院长，是该校苏联时期任期最长的领导人，并主持了 1959 年与铁路运输学院的合并。

• Archil Prangishvili was rector from 2009 to 2020 and oversaw the expansion of international partnerships and research capacity.阿尔奇尔·普兰吉什维利自 2009 年至 2020 年任校长，主持了国际合作伙伴与科研能力的扩展。

• David Gurgenidze, a doctor of technical sciences and professor, has been rector since 2020.技术科学博士、教授达维德·古尔格尼泽自 2020 年起担任校长。

• Boris Paichadze, one of the leading footballers of the Soviet Union, studied at the institute and gives his name to Dynamo Tbilisi's stadium, and he played for that club from 1936 to 1951.鲍里斯·派恰泽是苏联时代最著名的足球运动员之一，曾在该校求学，第比利斯迪纳摩球场以他命名，他于 1936 年至 1951 年效力于该俱乐部。

• Anahit Ananyan (1909-1987), an Armenian agronomist, is counted among the institute's graduates.亚美尼亚农学家阿纳希特·阿纳尼扬（1909-1987）被列为该校毕业生。

• Irakli Khakhubia (1971-2022), a Georgian politician, studied at GTU before entering public life.格鲁吉亚政治家伊拉克利·哈胡比亚（1971-2022）在进入政界前曾就读于 GTU。

• Rusudana Nikoladze (1884-1981), a Georgian chemist and educator, taught and researched at the institute.格鲁吉亚化学家与教育家鲁苏丹娜·尼科拉泽（1884-1981）曾在学院任教并从事研究。

• Tinatin Sadunishvili, a Georgian biologist and academic born in 1952, is associated with GTU's biological research.1952 年出生的格鲁吉亚生物学家与学者蒂纳京·萨杜尼什维利与 GTU 的生物学研究相关联。

• Teimuraz Loladze was rector from 1981 to 1988, during the final decade of the Soviet institute.捷伊穆拉兹·洛拉泽于 1981 年至 1988 年任院长，处于苏联时期学院的最后十年。

• Gocha Chogovadze led the institute from 1988 to 1994, spanning the transition to university status in 1990.戈恰·乔戈瓦泽自 1988 年至 1994 年领导该校，跨越 1990 年升格为大学的转折。