South Ural State University

SUSU is one of the largest universities of Russia. It was founded in 1943.

Nowadays SUSU has 9 institutes, 3 higher schools and 10 regional branches. The graduate and postgraduate education comprises training programmes in more than 200 specializations. At present the university offers training for Doctoral students in 24 directions (83 majors). At SUSU there are 12 dissertation councils. More than 50 scientific schools have been created at SUSU.

Over 50, 000 students are enrolled at the University full-time. The teaching staff includes 1900 teachers: 265 Doctors of Sciences, Professors; 857 Candidates of Sciences, Assistant Professors, over 90 members of foreign and Russian academies. Our lecturers successfully use new teaching methods.

In 2010, the South Ural State University has been recognized as a National Research University. In October 2015 the University became one of the six institutions of higher education, selected to participate in the Project of 5-100. Today, South Ural State University - is a dynamically developing scientific and educational center. Based on the accumulated experience and scientific potential, taking into account the trends of the modern economy, the university is on the way to the top universities of the world.

There is a linguistic center where you can get a second higher education in the field of linguistics, a gifted child center whose purpose is to develop creativity in children, School of Physics and Mathematics for the schoolchildren keen on math and physics, the “Applicant” center that prepares school graduates to enter our university, and specialized preparation courses on different subjects.

In 2004 on the basis of SUSU the Open Institute was established. It opens its doors for all the people wishing to get a higher education regardless of their age and place of living. This is a new way to deliver education called Distance study that incorporates different kinds of modern technologies and methods of teaching.

The SUSU scientific library is the largest one in Chelyabinsk. It has more than 2, 5 million volumes, journals, periodicals, e-subscriptions. One of these years the library plans to organize the reading hall similar to that in Western universities. It will be a reading hall with open access. Open access means that the students do not need to stand in a line for hours to take a book they need, but they will be able to go around the reading hall with lots of bookshelves, choose the book they like, read it sitting at a comfortable study and put it back into special trolleys after they finish reading. Moreover, the SUSU scientific library successfully exploits modern technologies and introduces a new electronic system that will allow students to order and prolong books electronically using their home computers.

SUSU is a basic educational institution of Russian Ministry of Education on developing new teaching methods and introducing new study equipment. The novelties, introduced in teaching process are multimedia information complexes for lecture theaters, digital control language laboratories, study-laboratory complexes and code gram sets on various disciplines.

South Ural State University is noted for its students and the teaching staff, democratic in their composition and views. To a large extent it is exactly that fact that accounts for the popularity among the undergraduates, the teachers and the tutors of progressive scientific and social ideas. The University has trained 115, 000 specialists, 2, 100 Candidates of Sciences and 440 Doctors of Sciences. Many graduates are members of governing body of Russia and Chelyabinsk region, among them V. Khristenko, Prime Minister of Russia; A. Pochinok, Minister on Labour and Social politics; M. Yurevich, Chelyabinsk region Governer; S. Davidov, Chelyabinsk mayor and others.

About 6, 500 students live in the University hostels. There is a student theater “Mannequin”, modern dance, ballroom dance, a jazz ensemble, 2 choirs. The University has a modern sports complex with a swimming pool. Since 1956 university newspaper “Technopolis” has been published. In 2002 a new teleradiocentre was opened.

 

Did you know that …..           SUSU is one of the highest buildings in Chelyabinsk?

Its height is 86 meters.

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