Among the co-founders were also several scientists, including Giorgi Akhvlediani, Shalva Nutsubidze, Dimitri Uznadze, Grigol Tsereteli, Akaki Shanidze, Andrea Razmadze, Korneli Kekelidze, Ioseb Kipshidze, Petre Melikishvili and Ekvtime Takaishvili.

[4] Tbilisi State University was founded in 1918 owing to the leadership of Georgian historian Ivane Javakhishvili and the group of his followers.

[5] The university is housed in the former building of Georgian Nobility Gymnasium constructed by the architect Simon Kldiashvili from 1899 to 1906.

The construction and development of the future building of Tbilisi State University were spearheaded by Niko Tskhvedadze, a founding member and board participant of the Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians.

Afterwards, through the Bolshevik and Communist period, in spite of the forced ideology and fierce censorship[citation needed], Tbilisi State University maintained schools in mathematics, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and historiography.

The foundation of the Academy of Science of Georgia and other higher educational institutions was encouraged by the university.

The university was opened on 26 January 1918, the day of remembrance of the Georgian king David the Builder.

At the end of the I stage of the reform implemented, at the beginning of 2005, the bodies functioning at TSU were: 22 faculties with 184 chairs, 8 branches with 46 faculties, 3 scientific-research and study-scientific institutes, 81 scientific-research laboratories and centers, 161 study laboratories and rooms, clinical hospitals and diagnostic centers, publishing and editorial houses, the library with 3,650,000 items, 5 dormitories.

In the yard of the 1st TSU campus lie the founders of Tbilisi State University, whose names imply establishment and development of various scientific schools in Georgia.

There are museums of history, Georgian emigration, mineralogy, geology and paleontology, geography, zoology and botany.

The university has eight branches in Sokhumi, Meskheti, Ozurgeti, Sighnaghi (Kakheti), Zugdidi, Kvemo Kartli (Marneuli), Javakheti and Poti.

TSU has relations with the Association of European Universities, UNESCO, the Council of Europe and other international organizations.