According to Order N224 / N of the Georgia Minister of Education and Science dated December 29, 2011, the entering student will be permitted to enrol in the university without having to pass the Unified National Examinations. As per the directive from Georgia’s Minister of Education and Science, an individual who meets the requirements to enrol in university without having to pass the Unified National Examinations can do so and begin their studies at Avicenna – Batumi Medical University within a year of the Minister’s order being issued.

 The right to obtain student status is enjoyed by:

• Foreign nationals who are citizens or who are stateless and who have completed their general education, or an education comparable to it, elsewhere;
• Georgian nationals who completed their full general education—or a similar program—in a foreign nation and studied the final two years of that programme there;
• Nationals of other nations who have studied abroad and earned credits or qualifications at a higher education institution accredited by that nation’s laws (apart from participants in exchange programmes and joint higher education programmes.