The scientific and education complex of Novosibirsk Region ranks the third in the Russian Federation and is really a unique combination of research and educational institutions of Siberian Branches of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vector", over 50 Research and Design institutes, 150 research small businesses, 31 higher Educational institutions (so as Novosibirsk State Technical University, Siberian State University of Railway Engineers, Siberian Commercial University, Novosibirsk University of Water Transport Engineers (NIWTE), Novosibirsk Medical Academy), 63 special secondary technical schools, over 200 optional educational organizations ( retraining and internship).

 

Novosibirsk
State University 

State University

State University and Akademgorodok, the town of research and education. Though NSU is rather small university (only around 5000 students) it gives students as good facilities for study and research as anywhere else in the world. An exceptional students-to-professor ratio (4 and 1) justifies the high quality of young researchers that graduate from our university. At the same time, the wide range of disciplines offered at NSU combined with the research work done by the students at 48 research Institutes of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences guarantees that each graduate of NSU is a unique specialist in his field.

During the last forty years NSU has trained around 28000 researchers, teaching staff for higher education establishments and specialists for business. Our graduates work all over the world: in the USA and Canada, Argentina and Brazil, Mexico and Australia, Japan and Israel, Germany and France, UK and Italy, Turkey and China. Graduates of NSU have become professors of such universities as the Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Cornell University, Yell University, Chicago University, Harvard University. NSU graduates have made a big contribution to the research activity of such eminent laboratories as the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab, Los Alamos National Laboratory, etc. Big communities of NSU graduates work for companies like Microsoft, SUNmicrosystem, Hewlett Packard, Novosoft, etc.

Novosibirsk State Technical University
(NSTU)

NSTU founded in 1950 as the Novosibirsk Institute of Electrical Engineering, is one of the major research and educational centers, as well as one of the top technical universities in Russia. During the years of its existence, the university has trained more than 75,000 specialists. There are more the 16,000 students enrolled in NSTU's various programs.
The university has experience training many students from foreign countries. During the last 20 years more than 500 international students have graduated from the university and more than 500 have studied Russian in various programs. In the 70s and 80s students from East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Cuba, Vietnam and Mongolia, countries of the so-called socialist community, studied here. Nowadays, there are 13,500 students from Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) and about 90 foreign students from China, Turkey, Mongolia, South Korea, India, Syria and Jordan.

NSTU actively partners with foreign universities and has established 25 cooperative agreements for scientific research, education and culture. NSTU also takes part in various programs of the European Union: the Salzburg Seminar, British Council, DAAD, INTAS, TEMPUS, EDRUS-TACIS and TACIS. There is a DAAD consulting center - German Academic Exchanges Service, at the university.
Through cooperation with the Harbin Institute of Technology, the University of Ulsan and the Turkish Educational Fund "UFUK," student exchange programs have been in operation for several years. In the summer of 2000, students from South Korea, the United States (Universities of Michigan and Ohio), from China (Jiling University) and from Italy (University of Rome) visited Novosibirsk and the university.

7 International Research Centres

Since 1997 Technopark "Novosibirsk" works in Novosibirsk Region. Its establishment aimed at commercialization of research findings, putting in operation small high-tech businesses, providing the production of import-replacing and export items that are in stable, financially sound demand.