{"id":20607,"date":"2021-09-20T16:51:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T14:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=20607"},"modified":"2021-09-20T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T14:51:05","slug":"which-degrees-risk-shutting-down-at-the-university-of-tirana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/which-degrees-risk-shutting-down-at-the-university-of-tirana\/","title":{"rendered":"Which degrees risk shutting down at the University of Tirana?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bachelors\u2019 teaching degrees in chemistry, physics, philosophy and history have seen a decline in applications by 20%, mainly because the average to get in is between 7 and 7.5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mechanism by which a good high school graduate becomes a good teacher required a higher average requirement, and this has led to a decline in the number of applicants. The average is subjective, however, it penalizes the number of students that get admitted,\u201d \u2013 said the Dean of the University of Tirana, Artan Hoxha.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Russian and Greek language programs risk shutting down in the next academic year. During the first stage of applications, there were no students applying to get a degree in the Greek language, and only 1 student applied to the Russian language program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The degrees that received more applications than the previous year were as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finance<\/li>\n<li>Law<\/li>\n<li>Economic Information Technology<\/li>\n<li>Business Administration<\/li>\n<li>Computer Science<\/li>\n<li>Information Technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/31\/undergraduate-applications-for-the-academic-year-2021-2022-open-on-september-2nd\/\">University applications for the new academic year open on September 2nd<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/26\/rama-warns-of-mandatory-vaccination-for-university-students-and-professors\/\">Rama warns mandatory vaccination for university students and professors<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/01\/albania-launches-open-vaccination-month-amid-rising-infections\/\">Albania launches open vaccination month, amid rising infections<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bachelors\u2019 teaching degrees in chemistry, physics, philosophy and history have seen a decline in applications by 20%, mainly because the average to get in is between 7 and 7.5. \u201cThe mechanism by which a good high school graduate becomes a good teacher required a higher average requirement, and this has led to a decline in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":20608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Which degrees risk shutting down at the University of Tirana? 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