Shevchenko Transnistria State University

Transnistrian State University / Tiraspol State University
Native names
  • Приднестровский государственный университет имени Т. Г. Шевченко (Russian)
    Придністровський державний університет імені Т. Г. Шевченка (Ukrainian)
    Университатя де Стат Нистрянэ «Т. Г. Шевченко» (Romanian)
    Universitatea de Stat din Tiraspol
Former names
Taras Shevchenko State Pedagogical Institute (1933–1992)
MottoLatin: Per Ardua ad Astra
"Through Adversity to the Stars"
TypePublic
Established1930
RectorStepan Beril (PSU)
Eduard Coropceanu (UST)
Students11,000 (PSU)
Location,
Websitespsu.ru (PSU)
ust.upsc.md (UST)

Two universities claim the succession of the Taras Shevchenko State University of Tiraspol; the Transnistrian State University (Russian: Приднестровский государственный университет имени Т. Г. Шевченко, romanizedPridnestrovsky gosudarstvennyy universitet imeni T. G. Shevchenko) located in Tiraspol, Transnistria, and the Tiraspol State University (Romanian: Universitatea de Stat din Tiraspol) located in Chișinău, Moldova.