Baku State University
Baku State University is an Azerbaijani state university based in Baku and among the Best Universities in Azerbaijan. The University of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was founded in 1919 by the Parliament of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, with an initial enrollment of 1094 students in the faculties of history and philology, physics and mathematics, and law and medicine. V.I.Razumovsky, a former professor of surgery at Kazan University, was the first rector of BSU.
The University has 13 faculties at its 40th anniversary in 1959. Both the Azerbaijan Medical University and the Azerbaijan State Economic University arose from BSU's founding faculties.
Two previous presidents of Azerbaijan, Abulfaz Elchibey and Heydar Aliyev, were among the BSU alumni. The former attended the Faculty of Arabic Language and Literature, while the latter attended the Faculty of History and dominated Azerbaijan's political life for nearly 30 years. Between 1922 and 1924, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Lev Landau attended BSU.
BSU is the first university in the Republic of Azerbaijan that has been ranked by worldwide ranking bodies such as University Ranking by Academic Performance, where it presently ranks 1872.
- #1 in Azerbaijan
- #1341 in Asia
- #4017 in the World
Established: 1919
Location: Baku , Azerbaijan
Website: www.bsu.edu.az
