[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Tula State University is the biggest state university in Central Russia. Since May 2006 the university staff has been working under the leadership of rector Mikhail Vasilievich Gryazev, professor and doctor of technical sciences. While the university is constantly developing in response to the changing times, it also manages to remain loyal to its past traditions. Nowadays more than 20,000 students, 680 postgraduates and doctoral candidates, more than 1,200 foreign students from 40 countries study at Tula State University.
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Innovative Tech Center and Innovative Business Incubator
ITC developing entrepreneurship among students, young scientists and professors. Main Goal is to support innovative ideas, projects and small enterprises. ITC structure consists of departments that can give help in their undertakings.
Innovative Business Incubator is main ITC structure. Compiles innovative tech ideas of scientists. Working on business plan and marketing analysis. Providing rent, accounting and juristic services to small enterprises. Eleven ideas passed through incubator draft and now they have become developing small scientific enterprises in field of their competence.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tab][vc_tab title=”EDUCATION” tab_id=”1415724974-2-66″ icon=”embrace-computer_monitor”][vc_column_text]In the regional educational market TSU offers a multi-stage training system, which includes more than 150 study programs in defense industry, technology, mining construction, computer science, economics, law, humanities and medicine.
There are more than 1,387 faculty members, among them 278 full doctors of sciences and professors along with 742 candidates of sciences and associate professors.
TSU provides full-time and part-time education, distance education and education by correspondence. The university trains the following specialists: mathematicians, mechanics, physicists, chemists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, theologists, linguists, translators, lawyers, sociologists, physicians, specialists in physical culture and sports, designers and design engineers, economists, managers, architects, educators and lecturers, and other specialists of the highest qualification.
The university scientific library contains more than 1.5 million books. There are several reading halls, an Internet-room and a digital library. A laboratory of computer technologies with a 100-person has been recently installed. The scientific and technical potential of Russian research institutes and constructing bureaus are widely used in the educational process. The university cooperates with leading specialists of major regional enterprises, which are very famous in the defense industry. A lot of e-books and virtual laboratory projects have been created by the faculty members and students of Tula State University. Testing is used at all stages of students’ learning.
TSU has been awarded with diplomas from national and international competitions and exhibitions for its activity in the sphere of training, re-training and professional development, scientific work and achievements in the sphere of social activity. In 2005 the university was awarded with the Certificate of Honor by the President of the Russian Federation for its contribution to the education of highly-qualified specialists and development of science. In 2007 TSU received the RF Government Award for Education. The university Staff headed by rector Mikhail Gryazev received a State Award for the project “Regional University Educational and Pedagogical Complex of Innovative Educational Technologies Used in Training Specialists for High-technological Production in Defense Industry”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tab][vc_tab title=”SCIENTIFIC WORK” tab_id=”1415725592247-2-4″ icon=”embrace-flask_alt”][vc_column_text]
The university pays great attention to scientific work including research support of various grants, research carried out in accordance with economic contracts, preparation of specialists of higher qualification (post-graduate studies), cooperation with institutes and scientific centers of the Russian Academy of Science, patent and license activity, organization of and participation in various conferences and exhibitions, organization of students’ scientific work and publication of monographs and other scientific publications. Scientific activity has a great influence on the quality of education provided at the university and it is one of the indexes of the scientific performance of the university departments. There are 10 Doctorial Dissertation Council’s and 4 PhD Dissertation Councils which totally cover 35 specialties: 12-15 doctorial students and 75-85 PhD students annually defend their dissertation at Tula State University.
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Collaboration with international educational establishments, organizations and research centers is also of great importance at Tula State University. The university has both scientific and educational connections with universities and colleges in more than 20 countries, including the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, People’s Republic of China and Poland.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tab][vc_tab title=”SOCIAL ACTIVITIES” tab_id=”1415725694082-4-7″ icon=”embrace-square_chat_alt2″][vc_column_text]Social activity is one of the priorities of TSU. The university has the widest net of dormitories in the region. TSU possess several sports facilities, a polyclinic, a health resort and a canteen. TSU is the only university in the country which has its own kindergarten. The Center of Professional Orientation helps students with their future career. Various social organizations such as a students’ club and different sports clubs are active at the university. There is a university museum and a geological museum at TSU. The university regularly issues its own paper.
About 600 students actively participate in the activities of 19 creative unions, service clubs and courses. The students’ club possesses 2 audience halls for 1226 and 200 seats respectively. The rehearsal room covers more than 500 sq meters.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tab][vc_tab title=”GRADUATES” tab_id=”1415725781775-5-9″ icon=”embrace-people”][vc_column_text]
A graduate from Tula State University is always in demand in the labor market. The university is really proud of its graduates who serve as employees of various ministries and state institutions, agencies of State administration, heroes of socialist labor and heroes of the Russian Federation, deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Russian Federation, the State Duma, members of the Federal Council, academics of the Russian Academy of Science, hundreds of doctors of science, heads of industrial, research and development organizations, educational institutions, law-enforcement agencies, military commanders and famous design engineers, leading scientists and people of culture and art. Over 100,000 of our graduates and highly-qualified specialists are employed in different economic spheres in the Russian Federation and abroad.
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