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Type
  
Students
  
2500

Language
  
English

Phone
  
+994 12 421 10 93

Founder
  
Motto
  
“Always leading the way”

Academic staff
  
250

Location
  
Total enrollment
  
1,700 (2006)

President
  
Hassan Niknafs

Founded
  
1991

Khazar University

Chairman
  
Professor Hamlet Isakhanli

Address
  
11 Mahsati Ganjavi Rd, Baku AZ1096, Azerbaijan

Notable alumni
  
Adnan Hajizadeh, Nigar Jamal, Mahshid Afsharzadeh

Similar
  
Qafqaz University, Baku State University, Azerbaijan University of Langu, Azerbaijan State University, Western University

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Khazar University Azerbaijani: Xəzər Universiteti, which directly translates as Caspian University is a private university located in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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Campuses

Khazar University owns three campuses in the city of Baku.

  • Neftchilar Campus
  • Downtown Campus
  • Binagadi Campus – New education complex for “Dunya” School, also Khazar University School of Education`s Internship Center, Sports Center, Dormitory and Technopark
  • Background information

    Founded in 1991 by Prof. Hamlet Isakhanli ([1]), the University became one of the first private universities in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia and the first in Azerbaijan to introduce Western-style, research-oriented higher education. Isakhanli formed Khazar in the interest of reforming the previous, sometimes corrupt system of higher education under Soviet rule. For more information on education system in Azerbaijan, read:

    1. Hamlet Isakhanli. In Search of Khazar. Khazar University Press, Baku, 2006.

    2. Hamlet Isakhanli. Education System in Transition Economy: A View from Azerbaijan. Khazar University Press, Baku, 2007.

    Academic information

    In Azerbaijan, Khazar University is providing Western-style education on all levels: undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral. It also runs a lab

    Notable alumni

  • Adnan Hajizadeh, blogger and youth activist
  • Nargiz Birk-Petersen, television commentator
  • Nigar Jamal, winner of Eurovision 2011
  • Affiliations

    The university is a member of the Caucasus University Association.

    References

    Khazar University Wikipedia