Ulyanovsk State University (Russian: Ульяновский государственный университет, romanised: Ulyanovskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet) is a public, research university, located in Ulyanovsk, Russia. City of Ulyanovsk (formerly Simbirsk, founded in 1648) is situated on the Volga River, about 440 miles east of Moscow and has a population of 700,000. The university, one of the largest in that region, enrolls some 16,000 students in six colleges offering 68 majors and claims considerable international ties. ULSU was one of the first among Russian universities to join Bologna process and started to reform its Doctoral, Master's and Bachelor's standards of degrees. As a part of Moscow State University in State of Ulyanovsk, based on the traditions of classical education, was established by a resolution of Government of the Soviet Union in February 1988 (formerly Simbirsk People's University, established in 1648). In 1996, Ulyanovsk affiliate of MSU was reorganized into Ulyanovsk State University. At present Ulyanovsk State University is one of the largest higher educational institutions in the Volga Region, which comprises six institutes, 7 independent faculties, 2 affiliates, 6 learning centers and many international study centers. The university enrolls about 16,000 students, among them almost 200 foreign citizens from Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and South America. Currently the university employs 1,254 faculty members, including 138 Doctorate and 623 Candidate of Science degree holders. Ulyanovsk State University offers a wide range of study options: full and part-time, external, further and distance education programs on undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels. A student may choose from 77 majors, 76 post-graduate, 37 medical internship and medical residency programs. In addition, the University provides an opportunity to receive dual degrees in Law and Business. The Ulyanovsk State University Business School also offers MBA degree with focus on international business and finance.

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General information

ULSU offers a wide range of study options: full and part-time, external, extended, distance education programs on undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels. There are 68 majors, 66 post-graduate, 29 residency training, and 14 internship programs available. USU offers the opportunity of enrolling in dual degree programs. Academics Institute of Economics and Business Administration, Top Russian Business School Russian-American Faculty Russian-German Faculty Faculty of Physics and Engineering Faculty of Mathematics and Information Technology Institute of Law and Public Service Institute of Medicine and Ecology Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Culture and Arts

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Public organizations.

For over 10 years ULSU has enjoyed a strong relationship with the German-Russian Friendship Society in Ulyanovsk’s sister-city Krefeld. The German partners have offered generous financial, material and technical assistance and helped arrange internships for ULSU students with major German companies. For several years, ULSU has provided translation assistance to city administrations of Ulyanovsk and Krefeld, which exchange regular visits as part of their close collaboration. ULSU theater majors have for a few years enjoyed the opportunity to visit the partner city where they performed and attended master-classes at the invitation of Krefeld city council. Currently, ULSU with the assistance of Krefeld German-Russian Friendship Society and German Embassy in Russia is discussing with DAAD, German academic exchanges council, the possibility of having its representative on the university campus, who would among other things oversee preparation courses for DSH, or German as a foreign language exam. Since 1997, ULSU has maintained a successful relationship with Russia Culture Center (Seoul, South Korea), which has been of invaluable help in establishing ties with Korean organizations working in the fields of science, business, culture and arts. Among recent developments is participation in Oxford Russia Fund program, which provided 75 scholarships for ULSU humanities majors for the 2006-2007 academic year. To promote academic exchanges, ULSU arranges regular meetings with coordinators of international educational organizations including ACTR-ACCELS, IREX, Fulbright Foundation.

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Research.

School of Medicine.

Research at ULSU is conducted by all academic units – institutes and faculties, each having at least one research team. The principal research areas addressed by ULSU scholars are: nuclear power engineering, aerospace industry, laser and nanotechnologies, general and specific engineering, automobile manufacturing, microelectronics and machine engineering, CALS technologies applications for aircraft, automobile and machine engineering, bio technologies and medicine, environmental protection. Many of the efforts are sponsored by grants of Russian Ministry of Education and Research. One of the most significant international activities that ULSU has been engaged in for over a decade is the regional “Hospice and Palliative care” program supported by “HealtH prom”. UlsU’s commitment to raising healthcare standards has contributed greatly to making Ulyanovsk region one of the leading palliative care providers in Russia. ULSU faculty engaged in medical research are active participants of the anti tobacco campaign launched by European Respiratory Society. Another research project in medicine is carried out jointly with the neurology hospital of the University of Düsseldorf and the neurology institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. A number of research projects in the field of mathematics and Information Technology are being successfully implemented in cooperation with Jyvaskyla University (Finland) and Texas Tech University (USA). Besides, ULSU is discussing with the latter the possibility of arranging annual internship and traineeship opportunities for its students and faculty on Texas Tech campus. ULSU research center in sociology “region” has since 1993 worked in close partnership with the University of Birmingham, implementing among other things regular post-graduate student exchanges. Besides Great Britain, “region” staff enjoy internship opportunities with partner institutions in Germany, Italy, Belgium. Currently, the researchers are exploring such issues as youth cultures, lifestyles, gender issues and multiculturalism as part of projects supported by European Commission and various international foundations.

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Partners.

One of the top ULSU priorities is developing and carrying out joint educational programs in cooperation with a number of universities and colleges from the United States, Germany, India and China; Wesleyan College (Macon, Georgia), Shenandoah University (Winchester, Virginia), University of Osnabrück, (Osnabrück, Germany), Duisburg-Essen University (Duisburg, Germany), Jaro Institute of Technology, Management and Research (India), Hunan Normal University (China) are some of the main partners of the university. From the last three years, the exchanges have provided study abroad opportunities to almost 100 students from Russian-American Faculty and Russian-German Faculty. Since 2001, ULSU has conducted summer cultural-academic programs for students, faculty and administrators from foreign partner-institutions. The time in Ulyanovsk, which provides visiting students with insights into Russian economy and culture, is typically counted toward their degree. All in all, ULSU has arranged 9 programs for 140 foreign guests. Becoming in 1999 a co-founder of Italian-Russian Institute of Research and Education, ULSU has provided many students and faculty members with a chance to participate in international summer schools hosted each year by a different member institution. Starting September 2006, ULSU will annually host a summer school dedicated to coniferous and broad-leaved forests. Over the last two years ULSU has signed cooperative agreements with the University of Palermo, Hochschule Niederrhein (Germany), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), Utemisov West-Kazakhstan State University (Republic of Kazakhstan). In addition, cooperative agreements are being completed with East Tennessee State University, La Grange College (USA), Freiberg Technical University Bergakademie (Germany) and about 30 higher educational institutions from the former Soviet Union republics. In April 2012, ULSU signed an agreement for a joint Russian-Indian International MBA Program with Jaro Institute of Technology, Management and Research (Mumbai). JARO Education is a company which provides services in the field of education, including professional and vocational training and development in India and across the world via web-based and classroom-based instruction. The agreement's purpose is to provide a framework for academic exchange and joint MBA training of working professionals in India and other Asian countries, including UAE, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Africa Republic, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kuwait, Vietnam, Thailand, Bahrain, Cambodia, Burma and the Philippines.

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List of Partner Universities
Belarus

• Belarus State University

• Francysk Skaryna Homiel State University

• Hrodna State University BulgariaShumen University

• Technical University of Gabrovo China

• Hunan Normal University

• Jiangnan University

• Heilongjiang University

• Zhengzhou University Czech Republic

• Czech Technical University in Prague

• Masaryk University

• The University of Economics, Prague Germany

• Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences

• Freiberg University of Mining and Technology

• Duisburg-Essen University

• University of Osnabrück India

• Jaro Institute of Technology, Management and Research Italy

• University of Palermo

• Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan Kazakhstan

• Karaganda State Technical University

• Taraz State Pedagogical Institute

• West Kazakhstan State University Lithuania

• Mykolas Romeris University Mongolia

• Mongolian University of Science and Technology Poland

• Silesian University of Technology South Korea

• Daegu University Turkey

• Ahi Evran University Vietnam

• University of Labor and Social Affairs Ukraine

• Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University

• Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine United States

• East Tennessee State University

• La Grange College

• Shenandoah University

• Wesleyan College UAE

• London American City College Uzbekistan

• Tashkent Pediatric Medical Institute

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International Saint-Exupéry Centre.

Faculty of Culture and Arts.

On the 27 February 2012, the university inaugurated its new International Saint-Exupéry Centre, led by its Director, Elena Mironova, an associate professor of French. The center will serve as a permanent museum dedicated to the French author-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, as well as a cultural and linguistics center for the university. The museum was established with the assistance of Civil Aviation College teacher Nikolai Yatsenko, an author of 12 publications on Saint-Exupéry who personally donated some 6,000 related items. The university's new center will also help support the study of international languages in a city which is promoting itself as a major aerospace and cultural centre. The opening was attended by Ulyanovsk Governor Sergey Morozov, Sergey Krasnov of the Ulyanovsk Civil Aviation College and other aerospace and academic dignitaries, as well as Veronique Jober, Sorbonne professor of Slavic languages, addressing the audience by video link from Paris.

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International students.

The first international students were enrolled in ULSU undergraduate study programs in 1991, residency training programs – in 1999, post-graduate programs – in 2004. At the moment ULSU enrolls about 120 international students from 25 countries. Over the years, about 70 foreign citizens have been awarded ULSU diplomas. Since 2000, ULSU hosts an affiliate of National Russian Language Test Center, which administers tests to any foreign citizen willing to have official proof of their knowledge of Russian by obtaining an internationally recognized certificate.