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 The
university is comprised of 5 branches, 4 high schools and colleges,
4 Research Institutes, 11 research laboratories of Russian Academy of
Sciences, 17 faculties: Biology
and Soil Science, Geography, Geology and Environmental Studies, Journalism,
History, Computer sciences, Mathematics, Faculty of Applied Mathematics
and Mechanics, Romance - Germanic Philology, Pharmacology, Physics,
Russian Philology, Chemistry, Law, Economics and Bussiness, Philosophy
and Psychology, Institute of international education.
105 departments
are staffed with 1310 lecturers, including 217 Academicians, DsSc, Professors;
664 PhDs and assistant professors. Over 18
thousand students are currently trained at VSU.
Over
the years of its history, Voronezh University has awarded degrees to
about 85 thousand qualified specialists.
Many of its graduates — Nobel Prize laureates,
academicians, ministers, scientists, scholars and cultural workers
— are famous all over the world.
Research
activity is carried out in the framework of 29
basic scientific directions:
• Qualitative theory of ordinary differential
equation;
• Nonlinear function analysis;
• Mechanics of deformable solid bodies;
• Theory of nucleus structure;
• Semiconductors. Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric;
• Interaction of atoms and molecules with external fields and radiation;
• Statistical radiophysics;
• Semiconductors of microelectronics;
• Semiconducting solid solutions;
• High-molecular connections;
• Interaction of biosystems with an environment;
• Origion and occurence of mineral deposits;
• Social and economic problems;
• Economics and management of enterprises
• Philosophy;
• Literary criticism and linguistics.
Every year university scientists publish about 40 monographs, 60 textbooks,
2000 scientific articles. The university issues periodical magazine
«Vestnic VSU» in 6 issues: «Physics, Mathematics», «Biology, Chemistry»,
«Geology», «Geography and geoecology», «Humanitarian sciens», «Problems
in higher education»; «Condensed mediums and phase boundary scope» and
also «Publications of young scientists», 34 other subject periodicals.
At university there are 15 scientific boards awarding degrees in 50
scientific specialities.
University
possess modern equipment, the biggest library with more than
3 million volumes, 6 museums, Botanic garden, a unique wild-life preserve
«Galichya Gora». The new information technologies are widely used in
educational process. The University also houses the Mathematics Research
Institute, an Innovation Centre for New Technologies, and an Internet
Centre. Through international nets the University has an access to European
and American libraries data bases.
The University
provides its students with convenient and inexpensive hostels, student's
polyclinic, medical insurance, dining-halls, cafe, sports complex, concert
halls, different creative studios, summer sports camp, modern communication
facilities.
Voronezh
University was one of the first in the ex-USSR and Russia to start enrolling
foreign students. In the past 40 years
it has trained, under various kinds of programmes, over 13 thousand
foreign students, post-graduates and trainees from 89 countries of Europe,
Asia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America and the USA, including about
1000 — from Great Britain, more than 2000 — from Germany. Annually about
700 foreign students and post-graduates are trained at VSU.
The university realizes educative programs on one-level
(5 years) and multilevel systems
satisfying the international standards. Russian
and foreign students are offered the following courses and levels of
training:
• complete course leading to BS and BA
degree — 4 years;
• complete course leading to a specialist
degree — 5 years;
• courses leading to MSc and MA degrees
— 6 years (for students holding BSc and BA degrees — 2 years);
• postgraduate courses conducted in the
Russian and European languages (full-time — 3 years, correspondence
course — 4 years);
• post-doctoral study and research;
• preparatory courses for foreign students
— 1 year;
• various schemes of on-the-job training
from 1 month till 1 year;
• improvement of occupational skills;
• retraining courses;
• Russian language courses, including
Business Russian;
• improvement of occupational skills for
foreign teachers of the Russian language and literature;
• additional educational services (special
courses).
Courses
leading to BSc, BA, MSc, MA degrees, qualified
specialist degree, PhD, DSc degrees are provided in the following
specialist areas: Biology; Soil Science;
Geography; Environment Protection and Natural Resources Saving; Exploitation
of Nature, Geoecology, Geology, Geological Survey and Exploration of
Mineral Deposits; Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology; Ecological Geology;
Geophysics; Journalism; Advertising; Public Relation; History; International
Relations; Political Science, Mathematics; Applied Mathematics and Computer
Science; Mechanics; Chemistry; Science of Materials and Technology of
New Materials; Philology; Social Pedagogics Linguistics and Intercultural
Communications (English, German, French, Spanish language); Pharmaceutics;
Philosophy; Psychology; Culture; Physics, Microelectronics and Semiconductor
Devices; Radiophysics and Electronics; Management; World Economy, Economics
of Labour; Marketing; Finance and Credit; Accounting and Audit, State
and Local Management and Administration, Law, Information Systems and
Technologies.
Attention! Training in Computer specializations
is conducted in English.
The
Preparatory Faculty has been functioning successfully for 33
years. It offers preparatory courses designed to bring students to the
standard required for entry to normal degree
courses in humanities, medicine, economics, engineering, natural sciences.
With the help of up-to-date pedagogical technologies, the original teaching
methods, continuously upgraded computer facilities, audio and video
equipment foreign students can study the Russian language, systematize
and improve their knowledge in chosen subjects.
Foreign
students study and live in the specially constructed modern complex
including the concert and sport halls, dining-room, cafe. The students
live in rooms for 1-2 persons.
The university
offers its students plenty of opportunities for creative development,
entertainment, socialising and sport. You can also be trained to drive
a motor vehicle and obtain an internationally valid driving license,
study a European language (English, French, German, or Spanish).
Foreign
national and international holidays and festivals, sports competitions,
exhibitions, exciting guided tours to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the
ancient cities of the Russian Golden Ring and the Caucasus are also
regular features.
Voronezh
University actively develops its international
contacts, participates in many international projects. There
are long term agreements on cooperation with more than 30 universities
of Great Britain, Germany, Spain, China, USA, France, Czech, Estonia,
Ireland and other countries. The university widely participates in educational
and scientific programs, such as UNESCO,
TEMPUS/TACIS, IREX, INTAS, DAAD, Institute «Open society» (Soros Foundation),
International Scientific Fund etc.
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