About us

Ukhta State Technical University is a unique representative of Russian oil and gas universities and one of the largest technical higher education institutions of the European North of Russia. About 15000 students (over 500 of them are international students) study on 22 different specialties at our university. USTU is located in the Republic of Komi, in town of Ukhta - an industrial capital of this region. There is an advanced oil and gas industry and wood complex in our region. Our university works with the leading Russian oil and gas companies and their branches in the region: "Gazprom", "Transneft", "Rosneft", and "Lukoil". USTU offers an excellent academic experience that includes opportunities to put learning into practice among a diverse and welcoming international community. Explore programs, learn about admission requirements and begin building a personal, productive university experience. Whether you are a freshman or a transfer student, seeking graduate studies or looking for the flexibility of part-time classes, we are dedicated to supporting personal growth while upholding academic excellence.

The University was founded on the basis of the Ukhta Industrial Institute (the Institute was founded in 1967). By this time, more than 25000 engineers and economists had graduated in oil, geology, building, and timber industry majors. After the successful attestation on  April 14, 1999, the Institute was granted a status of a State Technical University. s

cientific research is activity carried out by teachers, postgraduate students, and undergrads of the University  directly during the educational process as well as in 13 scientific pedagogical schools. Scientific potential of the staff is used in many scientific industrial innovation centers:

The center of industrial safety and examination of industrial objects;
The Regional innovation center of energy saving;
The engineering service center; and others. Regional departments of the Russian Academy of Science and Academy of Industrial Ecology function at the University.
The University has a ground fiber-optic Wi-Fi communication and a fully functional global internet network access center. The University disposes the corporative computer system with the fiber optic trunk, which consolidates all faculties, sub-faculties and University departments and is  based on Internet technologies. The University Centre of distance education makes necessary methodical and studying information available for off-campus students without them having to leave their homes. In Ukhta, the University has over 15 study laboratory buildings, 14 student dormitories, sport and leisure complex «Burevestnik», a hockey stadium, three canteens and refreshment rooms in different buildings, a medical room, a studying geodesic base, and the recreation complex «Krokhal», which is 15 km away from Ukhta. There are also two alpine skiing routs (a summer and a winter ones) in Ukhta and in the Urals, a studying oil rig and a studying experimental forestry.
A scientific and technical library with its branches is one of the biggest in the Republic of Komi. It provides manuals, scientific, and methodical literatures; it also has 5 reading rooms in training buildings and an electronic catalogue. The University has publishing and printing facilities where the newspapers «Polytechnic», «Alma Mater», «PRofkom», analytic newspaper «Concept», and the image magazine are published.
The University cooperates with educational establishments of post-soviet region, in particular, in Azarbaidjan (Azarbaidjan State Oil Academy, Nakhichevan State University), Belarus (Belarus State Technological University), universities of Kazakhstan (South-Kazakhstani State University named after M.Auezov and others). The USTU also has fruitful relations with the University of applied science in Regensburg and Technische Universitaet  Bergacademie Freiberg, Germany; University CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valen?ia, Spain; Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; Bodo University College, University of Nordland and Arctic University of Norway; Oulu University and Savonia University of Applied Science, Finland; and Technical University of Ostrava in Czech Republic. Special attention requires the cooperation between the USTU and Serbian higher education institutions which include the University of Novy Sad. The USA also belongs to  the USTU international contacts: among them there are the Duquesne University in Pittsburg, Princeton University, and the University of West Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia. Apart from ordinary university cooperation treaties, the USTU also signs contracts with commercial and research funds, for example, German foundation "Europa Student project"; Romual Del Bianco Foundation, Florence, Italy; Ramboll Storvik Company in Norway, and others.