Source: Udriin Shuudan           June 11, 2010

The Government has asked concerned Ministers and province governors, and the Mayor of Ulaanbaatar to go ahead with previously approved plans to develop new university campuses. Soon after Prime Minister S. Batbold assumed office, it was decided that a campus of the Mongolian University of Science and Technology will be moved to Shivert on the southeast of the Nalaikh district. Private higher education institutes will also be granted land if they can enroll enough students.

A campus of Dornod University, a planned new institute for studies in geology and mining, will be built in Erdenet, with support from the Erdenet Mining Corporation and the private sector. Another university for the technical sciences will be built in Darkhan-Uul province. Work on the new campuses will go on in stages and is expected to be completed by 2021.