South Ural State University
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South Ural State University (SUSU) was established on December 15, 1943 as Chelyabinsk Mechanical Engineering Institute in Chelyabinsk
. It was founded as a response to the defense enterprises need of engineers during World War II.
SUSU is a basic educational institution in the sphere of the development and introduction of new teaching technologies, innovation activity. It is a leading center of culture and sport development.
There are over 50 thousand students and more than 5 thousand faculty members and staff at the University, including 270 professors and 1020 associate professors. Among them are 4 academicians and 5 Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, over 90 academicians of various public academies, 4 members of foreign academies.
SUSU has developed for many years as a large regional University. However, in view of the Bologna process
and the reforming of the higher education system of Russia, the main aims of the University now include an active integration with European universities; the development and realization of joint academic, scientific and innovation programmes; the provision of teachers and students mobility; the introduction of an effective system of education quality control.
An information and library complex comprises over 2,5 million books and is supplied with an electronic catalogue, electronic resources hall and open hall of access to economic sciences.
Moreover, the University possesses a supercomputer; linguistic centres with a digital audio equipment; a centre of preparatory training; Open and distance learning institute. A special centre of the University deals with the gifted children within the framework of such international programmes as “The Odyssey of the Mind” and “A Step into the Future”.
Education is realized according to 15 programmes of basic professional education; 19 programmes of secondary professional education; 203 programmes of higher education (for bachelors, specialists and masters); 71 specialties of postgraduate and doctoral studies.
Such bases of higher education as humanitarian, natural-science, technical and military, go perfectly together at the University.
The University has trained 150 thousand specialists by 2006. Over 2100 Candidates and over 440 Doctors of Science have defended their theses.
Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the northwestern side of the oblast, south of Yekaterinburg, just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River. Population: -History:...
. It was founded as a response to the defense enterprises need of engineers during World War II.
Contemporary
Today it is one of the largest educational institutions in Russia. It is among the top-ten of the Russian universities according to the state rating of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, and the largest in Russia in terms of the number of undergraduates.SUSU is a basic educational institution in the sphere of the development and introduction of new teaching technologies, innovation activity. It is a leading center of culture and sport development.
There are over 50 thousand students and more than 5 thousand faculty members and staff at the University, including 270 professors and 1020 associate professors. Among them are 4 academicians and 5 Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, over 90 academicians of various public academies, 4 members of foreign academies.
SUSU has developed for many years as a large regional University. However, in view of the Bologna process
Bologna process
The purpose of the Bologna Process is the creation of the European Higher Education Area by making academic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable and compatible throughout Europe, in particular under the Lisbon Recognition Convention...
and the reforming of the higher education system of Russia, the main aims of the University now include an active integration with European universities; the development and realization of joint academic, scientific and innovation programmes; the provision of teachers and students mobility; the introduction of an effective system of education quality control.
Academics
The University represents a system of educational institutions that includes 35 faculties, 13 branches and 3 representative offices, 166 departments; 2 faculties for professional retraining and advanced education; 53 computer centres.An information and library complex comprises over 2,5 million books and is supplied with an electronic catalogue, electronic resources hall and open hall of access to economic sciences.
Moreover, the University possesses a supercomputer; linguistic centres with a digital audio equipment; a centre of preparatory training; Open and distance learning institute. A special centre of the University deals with the gifted children within the framework of such international programmes as “The Odyssey of the Mind” and “A Step into the Future”.
Education is realized according to 15 programmes of basic professional education; 19 programmes of secondary professional education; 203 programmes of higher education (for bachelors, specialists and masters); 71 specialties of postgraduate and doctoral studies.
Such bases of higher education as humanitarian, natural-science, technical and military, go perfectly together at the University.
The University has trained 150 thousand specialists by 2006. Over 2100 Candidates and over 440 Doctors of Science have defended their theses.