Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The Andijan State Institute of Foreign Languages was established by Presidential resolution.

The Institute is a state higher educational institution with the status of a legal entity and operates within the system of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education.

The training of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel with higher education in the field of foreign languages is one of the main activities of the Institute.

The list of areas of undergraduate education and graduate specialties organized at the institute is as follows:

I. Direction of undergraduate education

From 2022/2023 academic year

1. Philology and language teaching: English

2. Philology and language teaching: French

3. Philology and language teaching: German

4. Philology and language teaching: Russian language

5. Theory and practice of translation: English

6. Theory and practice of translation: Russian language

7. Foreign language and literature: English

8. Foreign language and literature: Russian language

9. Guide support and translation activities (by languages)

From 2023/2024 academic year

10. Theory and practice of translation: French

11. Theory and practice of translation: German

12. Philology and Language Teaching: Arabic

13. Philology and Language Teaching: Korean

14. Philology and Language Teaching: Chinese

15. Philology and Language Teaching: Japanese

II. Master’s specialties

From 2023/2024 academic year

1. Foreign language and literature (by language)

2. Linguistics (by language)

3. Comparative linguistics, linguistic translation studies (by language) 

From 2023/2024 academic year

4. Simultaneous translation (by language) 

5. Literary translation (by language)

The educational process at the Institute starts from the 2022/2023 academic year and students are awarded a qualification in two foreign languages.

Starting from the 2023/2024 academic year, a professional (creative) exam is held in the entrance exams for the areas of undergraduate education of the Institute, aimed at assessing 4 skills (listening and understanding, reading, writing and speaking) in the subject "foreign language" in a complex of subjects. Wherein:

applicants who have a national certificate in the level of knowledge of a foreign language of level B2 and above or an internationally recognized certificate corresponding to it, are awarded the maximum score without an exam in the entrance exams in this subject;

professional (creative) entrance examinations in the subject "foreign language" are held by the State Testing Center under the Cabinet of Ministers;

when entering the specialty of the Institute’s master’s program, the average score of the national certificate in terms of knowledge of a foreign language level C1 or the corresponding internationally recognized certificate and bachelor’s degree is taken into account and no additional exams are held;

teachers who have a national or equivalent internationally recognized certificate of at least C1 level, teaching specialty subjects in a foreign language, may be paid a monthly allowance of 50 percent to the base tariff rate.

From the 2024/2025 academic year, teachers of special disciplines (except for a foreign language) of the Institute must have a national or equivalent internationally recognized certificate of at least level B2.