Khazar University


Khazar University, is a private university located in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Campuses

Khazar University owns three campuses in the city of Baku.
by Prof. Hamlet Isakhanli, 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 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. . Khazar University Press, Baku, 2007.

Academic information

In Azerbaijan, Khazar University is providing Western-style education on all levels: undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral. Khazar University also welcomes exchange students from foreign countries. It creates an opportunity to let students of Khazar University become exchange students in foreign countries too.
It also runs a lab.
There are four schools operating within Khazar University:
1School of Engineering and Applied Science
2School of Economics and Management
3School of Humanities and Social Science
4School of Education

Notable alumni

The university is a member of the Caucasus University Association.