 Being deprived of continuing his secondary education in Yerevan, he accomplished his school education in Tiflis in 1936, thanks to the assistance of his uncle's family.Back in Yerevan after Stalin's declaration that "children are not responsible for their parents", Mkhitar Djrbashian could enroll in Yerevan State University, where his scientific activities were encouraged by Prof. Artashes Shahinian, a talented teacher who directed his pupils mainly to Approximation theory.Mkhitar Djrbashian was greatly influenced by the results of Rolf Nevanlinna in Complex Analysis, which he studied attending lectures delivered by Mstislav Keldysh 
at Yerevan State University in 1944.