The main item on the agenda for the meeting of the Scientific Council of Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi, held on November 5, was the annual report of Professor Larisa Avetisyan, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs.
“The last 5–6 years at the University have been a productive period for implementing changes; as a result, in 2024, the “MD Physician” educational program received international accreditation for the maximum duration of 7 years. It is also worth noting that in 2026, we successfully passed the monitoring phase of this process”, Professor Avetisyan stated at the beginning of her remarks. She further noted that this June, the University applied to the German accreditation agency AQAS for the international accreditation of its “Dentistry”, “Pharmacy” and “Public Health” educational programs, and in September, the members of the Committee of international experts visited the University to evaluate two of these programs.
In July 2026, the University submitted an application for infrastructural accreditation to the National Center for Professional Education Quality Assurance (ANQA) of the Republic of Armenia, as December 2026 marks the end of the sixth—and final—year of its previous institutional accreditation. Should the University successfully secure infrastructural accreditation—following an expert site visit scheduled for November 9–12—and also achieve a positive outcome for the “Public Health” educational program (which will undergo an expert site visit in December involving international experts), then by January 2027, the University will hold infrastructural accreditation and will offer four educational programs—comprising its entire academic portfolio—that have each attained international accreditation.
