Perm State University was founded on 1st October, 1916. Today, nearly one hundred years later, the University has the status of a National Research University and is one of the leading universities in Russia.
Why?
Students: 12 faculties, 83 departments, which train about 11 000 students, among them 10 120 undergraduates, 702 post-graduates, 270 doctoral students.
Academic staff: 650 Candidates of Science, 224 Doctors of Science (DPhil), 2 Corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 Academician of RAS.
At present at PSU there are 48 programmes for training UG, 26 programmes for training Master students (PG). Every year PSU opens new and called-for programmes.
8 programmes are considered to be included in the top five in the country - Philosophy, Nanotechnology and Microsystems` Engineering, Information Security, Geography, Geology, History, and Social Work.
The students study in 11 university buildings (150 classrooms, 45 laboratories, 28 computer labs). Students live in 7 student hostels either on the PSU campus or within a 15-minute walk.
Throughout the University campus a modern security system operates, and there are points with free wireless Internet access.
There are canteens, coffee shops, 4 sports halls, a health center, and a Botanical Garden.
The culture palace “Academia” contains one of the best student concert halls in Russia.
The University library is one of the largest in Perm region - 1.5 million units of educational, scientific, artistic and literary periodicals and books.
According to the documents enclosed Perm State National Research University can deliver higher education both internally and externally.
