Urgench State University (UrSU) (; ) is a major university in

Urgench Urgench (//, ; ; ) is a district-level city in western Uzbekistan. It is the capital of Xorazm Region. The estimated population of Urgench in 2021 was 145,000, an increase from 139,100 in 1999. It lies on the Amu Darya River and the Shavat canal ...

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established by the decree of the President of the

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a dated 1 September 1992 in the city of

. The university is commonly known as Urgench University (in Uzbek Urganch universiteti)

History

Urgench State University is one of the oldest universities of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The university was initially organized in 1942 as the Khorezm State Pedagogical Institute. In 1991–2017, the university was named after great mathematician and philosopher Al-Khorezmi (alternative transliteration

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi , or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a mathematician active during the Islamic Golden Age, who produced Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820, he worked at the House of Wisdom in B ...

) as Urgench State University after named Al-Khorezmi. In 2017, the Urgench State University after named Al-Khorezmi was finally renamed the Urgench State University, a name it keeps to date. Since 2025, the University has been named after

Abu Rayhan Biruni Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (; ; 973after 1050), known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian peoples, Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously "Father of Comparative religion, Co ...

. The rector of the university is Dr. Bakhrom Ismoilovich Abdullayev since 2016. The university is located in

Khorezm Khwarazm (; ; , ''Xwârazm'' or ''Xârazm'') or Chorasmia () is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, bordered on the north by the (former) Aral Sea, on the east by the Kyzylkum Desert, on the south by t ...

, a region in northwestern

, one of the historical, cultural centres of the country. The region is popular with tourists because of the city of

Khiva Khiva ( uz-Latn-Cyrl, Xiva, Хива, ; other names) is a district-level city of approximately 93,000 people in Khorazm Region, Uzbekistan. According to archaeological data, the city was established around 2,500 years ago. In 1997, Khiva celebr ...

, which are listed as

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. Urgench State University provide a scientific and educational environment more than 30000 students. More than 160 educational programs is developed by academic staff of the University and successfully implemented for bachelors, masters and doctorate students in the following fields of knowledge: Engineering, Mathematics, IT, History, Economics, Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Food Science, Pedagogy and many others.

Faculties

Currently, the university comprises the following faculties: * Physics and Mathematics * Foreign Philology * Philology and Art * Natural and agricultural sciences * Sports activity, pedagogy and psychology * Socio-economic sciences * Technics * Chemical technology

International partners

Urganch State University has signed agreements and cooperated with more than 100 higher education institutions of 30 countries in order to expand the geography of cooperation with foreign higher education institutions in the field of education and science. Professors and teachers of higher education institutions of a number of countries, such as

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

, the

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Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

Korea Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and smaller islands. Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically Division of Korea, divided at or near the 38th parallel north, 3 ...

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and the

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are involved in the educational process. As university has established strong ties and collaboration with foreign universities, a lot of international projects have been implemented and are being constantly evolving at UrSU such as, CLASS, EPCA, ELBA, IRES, 3D Digital Silk Road, English for

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, SUMRICA and ICM projects with the universities such as

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, Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Science,

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, Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University.

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Faculties

International partners

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