Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University (RAU) is a university located in Yerevan, Armenia and managed by the governments of Russia and Armenia. The university has a status of a higher educational institution in both states. The language of instruction and communication at the university is Russian.The university was established on August 29, 1997. Beginning with one general department in 1999, to date RAU enrolls approximately 1,600 students in the following faculties: Law, Journalism, Economics, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Political Science, Tourism Studies and Promotion, Physics and Engineering, Electronics and Microelectronics, Medical Biochemistry, Psychology, Theory and Methodology of Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultures, Philology, Bioengineering and Bioinformatics