Gladzor University was the first among the private Universities, where physical training as a planned compulsory subject has always been in the centre of attention.
In 2000 chairs of Physical Training and Civil Defense were established.
Powerful, bright, well-equipped gym-halls are put at students' service. This provides 80-85% attendance of the students.
The Subject is conducted by the head of the chair and the honored coach of Armenia, Professor Robert Galstyan and the captain coach of calisthetics national team and honored coach of RA Hasmik Makaryan.
The students' monthly "New Gladzor" has been founded by the undertaking of the University founder-rector Zhora Jhangiryan in 1996. Being the official paper of the very University the "New Gladzor" aims at assisting the study process, illustrating the students' life. The newspaper successfully reveals the students' creative abilities at the Department of Journalism and supports their professional skills. Different professors and talented students of the journalistic and other departments contribute the monthly with various interesting articles. The frame of the readers is wide-ranging: "gladzorians", students of other Universities, visitors of the National Library, scholars and members of the Writer's Union of Armenia. It is one of the most popular and mostly read among the other University student papers. It has expressive headlines: "University movement", "Hall of solemnities", "Students examine", "Professors in the eyes of students", "Love age", "To laugh or to cry", ect.
