CAPITAL CITY TO HAVE OWN UNIVERSITY

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Capital city Governor E.Bat-Uul visited on Wednesday the Ulaanbaatar University affiliated to the National University of Mongolia. The university was founded as a technological institute in 1992, and became Ulaanbaatar University in 1995. In 2010, the university became an affiliated university of the National University of Mongolia. Today, the university has three faculties of technology, social sciences and linguistics, and is attended by some two thousand students. The university management earlier expressed a request to the municipal administration to become a capital city owned university. As a city-owned university, they are planning to focus on specialist preparation and training for municipal agencies and offices, and on conducting needed studies and programs for the capital city. In early April, Capital city Mayor E.Bat-Uul has issued an ordinance to establish an Ulaanbaatar-owned university. The decision to set up a university named after the city follows a worldwide practice of metropolitan cities to have a university named after them. There is S.Korea-invested ‘Ulaanbaatar’ university in the city. It is still unclear how to solve the name similarity in case the proposed capital city-owned Ulaanbaatar University is established.