President Bashar al-Assad has issued a second legislative decree for 2015, establishing a new university inside in the city of Tartous.
The University of Tartous will house faculties in medicine, education, economy, literature and human sciences, pharmaceuticals, technical engineering, communications and IT, tourism, and sciences, with the possibility of adding further faculties via decrees.
The university’s faculty and administrative staff will be transferred from the University of Tishreen.
Translated and edited by The Syrian Observer
