Ilia State University - ISU (reviews)

It is one of the best university in Georgia, allowing students to study with internationally acknowledged curriculum. It also gives students access to great international library. competent and professional professors

I spent some wonderful years at Ilia State University while studying there at BA (major: European Studies; minor: Italian Studies) as well as at MA program (Social Sciences: International Relations).
The most I liked was the sense of freedom, which is so important. Freedom that means responsibility at the same time, freedom that comes from good education, experience and self-development. In addition, I liked the educational process quality, most professors are like good colleagues and friend to their students and it really matters. There are many possibilities for students to have some practice, trainings at public agencies/private companies (for example, I had a training at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and it became an starting point of my following career).
So, I would recommend this University to any student, since it gives good education and a great chance of future development.

I studied Anglistics at Ilia State University, and it was a great experience overall. The professors were very supportive and knowledgeable, helping us improve not only our English but also our critical thinking and literature analysis skills. The international atmosphere made it easy to practice English every day. The only downside was that administrative services were sometimes slow, and finding housing was mostly up to us.

In my opinion, the education provided to me by Ilia state was not a top-notch experience. I am a business student. I am being taught in the English language which is something recently started by the university in the last few years. Our education is theory-based for the most part, boring presentations and worksheet exams. We do not partake in any special projects that give us real experience nor will the university help in providing this type of experience for its students specially to international students. Not to mention but even the extracurricular sector is mainly for Georgian students. You will not get information about it. You will not see posters. But if by chance you stumble upon them you will come to find the main language of instruction for said club is Georgian. And most probably the club has no intentions to catering to international students and providing an English-speaking team. I don’t think my experience is totally horrible. I do get some sort of education at the end just not totally what anyone would hope for.