Quotas are defined specially for Azeri and Armenian entrants for the 2012 national unified exams; they are asked to take a general ability test in their own languages (Azeri and Armenian), on the basis of which the students are enrolled at preparatory programs. Furthermore, Azeri and Armenian students will take a year long intensive course in Georgian Language; afterwards, they will be enrolled at the universities of their choice.

Today, the Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, Dimitri Shashkini, met Azeri and Armenian 12^th graders at Tbilisi State University and discussed with them the details of the program.

The program was fully launched last year and up to 300 entrants benefited from it; in comparison, only three students participated in the program in 2010. The students receive state funding according to the results of their general ability test; their state grants are retained for the full duration of the students' academic studies.

This program, supporting the ethnic minority entrants in receiving a higher education, is one of the priority programs of the Ministry. Representatives of the Ministry regularly organize meetings in ethnic minority regions in order to promote this program.

Receiving a higher education in native language proves to be an effective mean of building a career for the ethnic minority population. More students are taking an interest to study the state language in order to take the unified exams in the Georgian language.