University of Yangon

Local nameရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်
LocationKamayut Township, Yangon

The University of Yangon, located in Kamayut, Yangon, is the oldest university in Myanmar's modern education system and the best known university in Myanmar. The university offers mainly undergraduate and postgraduate degrees programs in liberal arts, sciences and law. Full-time bachelor's degrees were not offered at the university's main campus after the student protests of 1996. The bachelor's degree was re-offered from 2014 on, to the best students in the country. Today degrees in Political Science are offered to undergraduate students, as well as postgraduate diplomas in areas such as social work and geology.

Initially most major universities in the country depended on Yangon University. Until 1958 when Mandalay University became an independent university, all institutions of higher education in Myanmar were under Yangon University.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Yangon

Official Website https://uy.edu.mm/

Coordinates 16°49'46.639" N 96°8'7.777" E

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