Voronezh state
agricultural university
after K.D.Glinka
 
Russia, 394087, Voronezh,
Michurina Street, 1
Tel.: (0732) 53- 86-51
Fax: (0732) 53-86-51, 53-81-39,
53-87-67
E-mail: main@vsau.ru
http://www.vsau.ru.
   
Rector — Shevchenko Vladimir Efimovich, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Agrarian Education.
Voronezh State Agricultural University after K.D.Glinka (VSAU), the first institute of higher education in the Central Black Soil Region of Russia, is approaching to celebrate its 90-th anniversary. It was founded in 1912 as the Voronezh Agricultural Institute of the Emperor Peter I. Since then, over 70 000 highly qualified specialists in agriculture have been trained for Russia and foreign countries.

Voronezh State Agricultural University is organized into 10 faculties: Agroeconomics; Veterinary Medicine; Agroengineering; Agronomy; Animal Husbandry; Land Management; Agrochemistry, Soil Science and Ecology; Technology; Agribusiness; Professional-Pedagogical Education. The Agrouniversity is the largest scientific center of the Central Black Soil Region, the generator of ideas on further development and reforming of Russian Agriculture.
58 departments staffed with over 500 teachers, including 354 PhDs and Doctors of Science, among them 70 Doctors of Science, Professors. Among them 27 Corresponding Members and Academicians of various Academies, 23 Honored Scientists, Honored worker of higher education and agriculture.
The University has large library, on what basis local network for 27 workplaces is organized. 18 of them are located in the reading room for working with electronic catalogue (over 50 000 records), subject-databases and electronic magazines of referats. In the library there is also access to the Internet.
High quality of training is traditional in the University, where specialists in agriculture are trained for many foreign states as Hungary, Morocco, Jordan, Senegal, Somali, Angola etc.
The Agrouniversity takes leading position among the agrarian educational institutions of Russia on the field of international relations. Over the last 10 years 22 international investment projects have been developed, every second of which on the results of tenders has got financing from international funds, donor-organizations on the total sum over 10 million US Dollar.
In VSAU there is a Department of International Investment Projects, what works directly with the European Commission Delegation in Moscow, Training Center of the International Labour Organization in Turin (structure of UNO), European Training Foundation and other international organizations.
The University provides postgraduate courses on 41 specialties. There are 10 specialized Academic Councils for assessment of doctorial and PhD dissertations.
In compliance with world educational market requirements a multilevel system of specialist training is adopted at the University, including study and research courses leading to BSc, MSc, PhD and DSc degrees. During their study future specialists take special courses and integrated period of work experience.
Scientific and productive activities are closely connected at the University. On the Chair of surgery new technologies of animal wounds, eyes diseases and bone-joint pathologies treatment are developed, what are widely applied in the leading agricultural enterprises of the Central Black Soil Region.
The University has comfortable hostels, refectories and a health center for medical treatment and recreation.
For sports enthusiasts there is a sport complex with 4 sport halls, skiing station and aquatic sport station.

Tuition fees including accommodation for foreign students per one academic year:

· Faculty of Veterinary Medicine; Faculties of Agroengineering and Agronomy (MSc degree) $1400-1700;
· Other faculties (Specialist qualification) $1100-1300;
· PhD course $2100-2600;
· DSc course $2600-3100.