The history of Andijan state university named after Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur began in 1931 initially as the affiliation of Ferghana Pedagogical Institute. In 1939 it became an Institute of Teachers, then from 1953 it was named as Andijan Pedagogical Institute and when our motherland gained its Independence, on December 28 1992 in accordance with the resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Andijan Pedagogical Institute was reorganized as Andijan State University.

These days there are 11 Faculties such as Philology, Sciences, History, Socio-economics, Pedagogy, Physics and Mathematics, Foreign Languages, Physical Culture and Pre-school Education with 37 functioning departments.

There are ten thousand and one hundred students studying in 55 fields for undergraduate degree and more than 160 students studying in 26 fields for Master degree.

Material-technical base of the University has been strengthened in recent years. Nowadays there are 6 main buildings of the university within 252 auditoriums of the capacity of more than 6570 students. Total area of academic-laboratory rooms is 45883 sq/m and an area per student is 4,5 sq/m.

All of 2 Information Resource Centers, 26 computer rooms, 954 computers, 6 students’ dormitory aimed for 2000 students, 6 canteens with the capacity of 910 seats, 2 buffets, 13 outdoor and 3 indoor sport grounds are for students to become intelligent, physically fit, highly developed professionals.

Andijan State university has maintained cooperation with more than 50 universities worldwide and has signed agreements with 28 of them.

In 2015-2018 by the program of Erasmus+ four projects as I-574055-EPP-I-2016-IT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP-RENES “ Working out the MA program on the field of alternative energy and sustainable environment” (project cost is 80,62 US dollars), 2-561857-EPP-1-2015-1-DE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP-Mode HEd “Modernization of Health Education at universities” (project cost is 46,280 US dollars), 3-561685-EPP-1-2015-1-CZ-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP-IQAT “ Improving intellectual quality in higher education” (project cost is 72,4 US dollars), 4-SUA800-14-GR-102- STEM “ Teaching English”( project cost is 46,4 US dollars) have been carried out . Short-term internship of young scientists in Piza University has been established well and nowadays 3 postgraduates of the university are doing their internship programs on their scientific fields. 13 young specialists have done scientific internships abroad.

As the result of improvements in training scientific-pedagogical personnel of the university, during the years 2015-2018 there has been significant change in scientific capability of the university and there were 29 defenses of PhD dissertations. 9 of them are DSc, 20 of them are PhD, increasing the level of scientific capability to 31,1%. The tendency is keeping growing. The successful defenses of 4 candidates and 1 independent researcher in 2018 are great achievements for the university.

With the comparison of previous years the university is succeeded to raise involving investments through State scientific-technical programs by 3 times , attracting international grants by 3 times, holding republican conferences by 2 times, publishing foreign scientific publications by 2 times, involving students in creative works and publishing by 1,5 times, manuals given by the university for “Innovative ideas, projects and technologies” Fair by 3 times.

28 monographs have been published by University’s professors and teachers since 2015. By the year 2018 indication of foreign publications and article reviews has been raised for 3 times. Currently, the investments with 245,7 thousand US dollars total estimate have been involved through 4 international grants and other programs. During the last 5 years Andijan state university has signed 27 co operational contracts and memorandums with world’s 15 notorious universities.

As a result of procedures to improve corporative cooperation between education, science and production contracts have been signed with 61 regional and republican educational and industrial establishments and 138 graduation qualification works, 41 postgraduate dissertations and 14 doctoral dissertations are addressed to the problems of cooperating institutions. The University actively participates in the republican Fair of “ Innovative ideas, technologies and projects” on a regular basis and the number of presented projects and signed contracts in 2015-2017 has been increased twice in comparison with that in 2012-2014. 30 manuals have been presented so far and according to them 12 contracts with the value of 346, million soums are succeeded to be signed.

Nowadays, the graduates of the university are employees of international organizations and corporations, governmental and managerial offices, educational system and non-governmental sector.