Georgia’s Minister of Education, Science and Youth, Givi Mikanadze, announced that 1,795 applicants who cleared the minimum competency threshold in the Unified National Exams will be given the opportunity for so-called secondary admission.
“The initiatives implemented in the first year of this large-scale reform were something of a novelty for applicants and the public. Accordingly, taking all these circumstances into account, this decision is being made on an exceptional basis and will be a one-time measure,” Mikanadze stated.
According to the minister, registration for the remaining vacancies at public and private higher education and vocational institutions will open in the coming days, allowing applicants who passed the national exams’ minimum threshold to apply for educational programs.
Mikanadze also added that more than 7,000 spots remain vacant across the country’s public and private universities.
In 2025, over 39,000 applicants registered for the Unified National Exams, with 31,704 individuals admitted to universities (bachelor’s programs).
Earlier, the Ministry of Education had stated that no special measures were planned for applicants left out of universities. Vocational schools were initially offered to them as an alternative, and “some of them even took advantage of this chance.”
The government of the ruling Georgian Dream party launched the education reform a year ago. Despite protests from the public and experts, both the secondary and higher education systems were radically overhauled in a short span of time: university departments were cut and closed, textbooks updated, and school dress codes introduced.
