Mankavarjakan Hamalsaran

Mankavarjakan Hamalsaran translates to Pedagogical University — the everyday name for the Khachatur Abovyan Armenian State Pedagogical University in Yerevan. The school offers bachelor's, master's and postgraduate programs, along with a preparatory track for foreign and diaspora applicants.

Ten faculties cover the teaching load: philology; history and social studies; primary education; biology, chemistry and geography; education psychology and sociology; foreign languages; mathematics, physics and informatics; arts education; special and inclusive education; and culture. University-wide departments handle subjects that cross faculty lines.

A research center and the Shakhmat chess research institute run alongside the teaching departments. The university also keeps a library, a history museum, several academic journals, and Radio FAMA.

The university is in Yerevan, in Yerevan region.