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The Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest is a technical university that trains higher education specialists in civil engineering, building services engineering, mechanical engineering/technological equipment and machines, environmental engineering, geodesic engineering, management and engineering, and systems engineering. The Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest, a direct descendant of the National School of Roads and Bridges, founded, in Romania, nearly a century and a half ago, is nowadays the pennant of Technical Education in Romania. The curricula cover all the fields of civil engineering and environmental protection, as well as adjacent fields such as building services, technological equipment, geodesy. In recent years, the curricula have been diversified and, presently, they include specialist domains in the field of systems engineering, as well as that of foreign languages. With a rich tradition and outstanding teaching staff, who have set and are still setting the benchmarks in engineering education and who have also contributed and are still contributing to the completion of specific reference work in our country, the University is accredited for all higher education cycles - bachelor, master and Ph.D. studies. Currently, there are over 8,000 students matriculated for the first two cycles and over 600 doctoral students. The teaching staff comprises about 540 members, with an equal balance between full and associate professors, lecturers, young assistants, and teaching assistants. The entire teaching staff is engaged in research, design, and consulting activities, directly contributing to offering knowledge in the field and financing the development programs. Following the institutional assessment of 2009, the University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest has won a HIGH CONFIDENCE rank, proving that the University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest has all the necessary equipment and teaching staff to achieve high-quality education. TUCEB is a university with a necessary higher education and research activities. This distinct academic community functions in compliance with the Romanian Constitution, the education legislation in force, and other legal regulations in Romania. It is a non-profit organization with legal status. The academic structures, decision-making competencies, the system of nominating the TUCEB leadership and the principles and specific rules by which the members of the university community operate within the academic space, as well as the regulations regarding the activity of the auxiliary and technical-administrative teaching staff are described in TUCEB's Chart. The overall teaching, research, management, and financial-administrative activity in TUCEB is compliant with the national and domestic legislation in force and approved in the TUCEB Senate sessions. The general framework regarding the labor discipline within TUCEB, adamant for optimum management of the internal university activity, is established by an Internal Regulation. The management structures of the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest are the University Senate, the Academic Board, the Administration Board, faculty boards, the management bureaus of the departments and divisions. The University Senate leads the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest, consisting of the President of the University, deans of the faculties, department managers, faculty representatives - teaching staff and students - all elected from members of the respective councils. Each faculty is led by the Faculty Council, chaired by the Dean. The Faculty Council consists of representatives of the teaching staff and students. View full university

The University was founded as a Higher Technical School in 1942 in 1945; it was transformed into a State Polytechnic. In 1953 Engineering-Construction Institute (ISI) was formed, which in 1963 was renamed to the Higher Institute of engineering and construction in 1977 - the Higher Institute of Architecture and Construction (VIAS). On July 21, 1995, the National Assembly VIAS decision was transformed into the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Geodesy (UACEG). Several students: 5000 (including part-time 486, 352 foreign students and 50 doctoral students). Academic staff: regular faculty - 364 (including 25 professors, 147 associate professors, 168 assistant professors, 24 lecturers, 250 of them are Doctors of Sciences. ) For the duration of its existence, the University has prepared more than 5700 architects and 25,000 engineers. In five faculties - Architecture, Civil engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, Geodesy, Transportation Engineering, and 33 departments senior executives are educated for the following majors: Architecture, Urban Planning, Structural Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Water Supply and Sewerage, and Geodesy. Mission OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE, CIVIL ENGINEERING, AND GEODESY : The public mission of UACEG is secular, and it is education- and research-oriented. A wide variety of architectural and civil engineering knowledge is acquired, and practical skills are developed at the University in harmony with the local, European and global traditions and the state policy for the higher education development in the Republic of Bulgaria. This mission is materialized in the following degree programs: Architecture, Structural Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering (Hydraulic Structures, Irrigation, and Drainage Engineering), Water Supply and Sewerage, Geodesy, and Transportation Engineering (Road Construction, Railway Construction. View full university

At present, the IACE of VSTU includes 29 departments, four territorially non-separated faculties, 27 specialized scientific-and-industrial laboratories, and workshops. A sizeable informational library complex is at the disposal of students and the teaching staff. The main areas of IACE of VSTU activities cover the training of highly-qualified engineering professionals: architects, engineers, ecologists, economists. At present, more than 8000 students are taught various forms of study. The educational process is conducted in 31 specialties, in 14 fields of Bachelor's Programme and four fields of study of the Master's Programme. The Institute prepares postgraduate students in 30 specialties (7 branches of science), doctoral candidates in 7 specialties 3 Dissertation Councils for Doctor of Science and Candidate of Science Degrees in 9 specialties function at the University. The IACE of VSTU promotes international activity aimed at preparing highly qualified specialists with internationally acknowledged diplomas, improving the University's status, and enhancing its prestige in the Russian and international market of educational services. The stated goals are achieved by extending international relations with foreign institutions of higher education. Extensive cooperation of IACE of VSTU with various universities allows increasing the mobility of students and professors. Thus, in 2012 and 2013, more than 70 students and postgraduate students and more than 50 lecturers had an opportunity to participate in conferences, master-classes, and workshops abroad. At the IACE of VSTU, students could attend lectures and master-classes of foreign lecturers. In 2012 and 2013, five and ten professors held lectures and master-classes at the Institute. Students, postgraduate students, and faculty of the IACE of VSTU actively participate in international scholarship contests for study and research placements. In 2013 two scholarships for study and research placement in Germany were won within the DAAD scholarships program framework alone. The Institute staff members regularly participate in various international conferences: in 2012 and 2013, more than 180 lecturers took part in international conferences. The Institute students and faculty have a unique opportunity to take the DSH examination at the IACE of VSTU for free. Every year (at the end of August — the beginning of September) docent from the University of Applied Sciences of Cologne (Germany) holds an intensive preparation course and conducts this examination for the certificate of German as a foreign language. IACE of VSTU is the only University in Volgograd which holds such an examination. For over 20 years, the IACE of VSTU has been cooperating with Michigan State University (USA). The Volgograd branch of the Michigan Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) was established at the SAUCE. The students regularly participate in the Russian Student Paper Competition held by the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Michigan Section, and win prizes. Our students got prize-winning places in 2012 as well as in 2013. In 1990 Volgograd State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering started training international students. Since that time, students from many countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Morocco, India, Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, Congo, Bangladesh, Palestine, Nepal, Iraq, Syria, Indonesia, Vietnam, Mozambique, Lebanon, as well as from Abkhazia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, South Ossetia, and others got Diplomas of higher education here. Suppose in the 2013-2014 academic year, young people from Nigeria were admitted to the Faculty of Pre-University Education in the 2014-2015 academic year. In that case, foreign citizens from Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Afghanistan, and the Republic of Yemen are studying at the Faculty of Pre-University Education. At present, about 140 international students from 29 countries study at the IACE of VSTU in various forms of study. In 2005, to enhance academic mobility and strengthen alumni's competitive abilities in the labor market of highly qualified specialists, the VSUACE was one of the first universities in Russia and the first one in Volgograd, which allowed its students to get European Diploma Supplement. Due to the increase of academic and labor mobility, this service's demand is growing from year to year. An important area of international cooperation is the implementation of target projects of the European Union. In 2012 the University took part in preparing and submitting the project application for participating in Tempus IV: «Development of Master Courses in Rescue Engineering,» and in 2013, the University prepared three project applications for Tempus IV: «Multidisciplinary University Education for Protection, Conservation and Exploitation of Cultural Heritage in Partner Countries - CHeriED,» «Development and Implementation of Master Courses in Rescue Engineering in RF (MARENGO),» Master Programme in «Construction Management in Russian Universities» (MaBaRu) with the coordinator-universities from Germany and Serbia, as well as the project application for participation in «LLP Erasmus OIKOnet – a global multidisciplinary network on housing» within the framework of a consortium with the coordinator-university from Spain. The University has got the financing for the LLP Erasmus OIKOnet project from the European Union. View full university

SPACE is the oldest higher education establishment of its profile in Russia. Its history goes back to 1832 when it was established under Emperor Nicholas I's edict as the Civil Engineering Institute. Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering" (SPACE) today is a significant educational and scientific center – the only higher educational institution in the North-Western federal region of the Russian Federation which provides complex training of specialists in engineering, architecture, transport, and environmental engineering. Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering has grand professional and pedagogic traditions and regularly updates technologies, areas, and scientific research methodology. The University carries out bachelor, master, and specialist degree education programs in full-time, part-time, and correspondence forms of training by the approved higher professional education programs. SPACE has equipped education and scientific research laboratories and a fund of auditoria necessary for studies. The University uses modern licensed software for the educational process, scientific research, innovation activity, management, and audio-visual mechanical means of teaching. In the University there are 119 auditoria, 25 of which are used for lectures and 94 – for practical classes and seminars. Fifty auditoria are equipped with multimedia equipment. There are 20 computer classes and 11 computer-based education centers. Seventeen university laboratories are used for practical lessons. In the University, there are two exhibition halls, three halls of drawing and painting, a lithography studio, a sculpture room, and three sports halls. A single network and thirty local networks function in the University. Books of the scientific and technical library are being registered in the e-catalog of the University. The University has long-term partnership relations with Moscow state civil engineering university to create an innovative geographically-distributed open network for distance education (an open network of transfer and distribution of professional knowledge in the engineering sphere) using modern telecommunication technologies. The main target of the project is to organize a "Regional center of open network" in SPACE in order to provide education based on modern technologies of distant education using telecommunication means and to develop education programs for training engineering specialists of new generation according to statues of Russian state standards and other normative documents. The University has an outstanding faculty of approximately 500 professors; 80% of them have different scientific degrees and titles, two academicians of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Constructional Sciences (RAACS), seven corresponding members, and seven councils of the same Academy. Over 400 professors were awarded orders and medals, honorary titles of the Russian Federation, breastplates, and various degree certificates for success in work. Two professors head art groups of scientists of Saint Petersburg and Moscow, which in 2008 were granted awards of the government of the Russian Federation in science and technics in one of the priority spheres. The University's mission is to develop the traditions of Russian Civil Engineering and a unique architectural environment of Saint Petersburg and the Russian Federation to foster innovative development in Architecture, Civil and Transport Engineering, and social and economic well-being. The mission is accomplished through training skilled and socially active professionals by implementing cutting-edge research methods and educational technologies. The University prides itself on its collaboration with industry and governmental organizations in the field of of сivil engineering and track record of successful projects which contribute to architecture and town-planning of Saint Petersburg and many other Russian cities. We have developed several strategic partnerships, licensed a wide range of discoveries, and successfully spun out some companies. Together, these turn our research findings into products and processes that benefit the economy and society. Our researchers collaborate extensively and productively with colleagues from around the globe. The University has about 60 international agreements with universities and centers of excellence in 23 countries and offers double-degree study programs in Civil and Environmental Engineering together with Finnish partner-universities. A degree from Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering opens broad employment perspectives in the engineering field. Our graduates are highly sought-after: of those who graduated in 2016, 80 percent were employed in the field. View full university

Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Sibstrin) was founded in 1930 as the Siberian Institute of Construction (Sibstrin). Being the first higher educational establishment in the field of construction and architecture in Novosibirsk, it has been considered for many years to be the only one in that field in the entire region of Siberia, Far East, and Central Asia of the former Soviet Union. In 1935 the Institute was transformed into Novosibirsk Institute of Civil Engineering, named after V.V.Kuibyshev. In July 1993, the Institute changed its name to Novosibirsk State Academy of Construction. In June 1997, the Academy got the status of the University. Since 2003 the full name of the University has been Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Nowadays, NSUACE (Sibstrin) is an extensive educational and scientific establishment providing training of specialists for Russia's construction industry. The University carries out researches in various fields: mechanics of solids, fluid mechanics, CAD systems, nanotechnology, winter concreting technology, and developments for mechanization of construction. The University has gained universal recognition. Substring has been awarded several national and international prizes, including "The Leader of Russian Economy," "The American Golden Certificate of International Prestige," the gold medal of "SOCIETE D'ENCOURAGEMENT POUR L'INDUSTRIE NATIONALE" (The Association for Encouraging Industrial Development), "European Grand Prix for Quality. " Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Sibstrin) is a member of the European Civil Engineering Education and Training (EUCEET) Association. In order to facilitate international cooperation and to strengthen its position in the competitive international education market, Sibstrin University has founded the Consortium of Novosibirsk Universities (CNU), which includes the largest universities of the city: National Research Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Siberian University of Geoinformation and Technologies and Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Sibstrin). In June 2015, Sibstrin and UNESCO agreed to establish a UNESCO Chair on Theory and Technology of Environmental Safety in Water Resources Control at Sibstrin University. According to the Public Organizations "Business Russia," Sibstrin enters the top 50 higher educational establishments graduating specialists in high demand in the labor market. Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering has the State Accreditation Certificate and the License for the Right of Conducting Educational Activity. The primary condition for any transformation and development in the country is the intensive construction of domestic dwellings and industrial objects. In this connection, the most important direction for us is the training of highly qualified specialists in construction. Traditions of high-quality training, scientific schools, and scientific-industrial and innovation subdivisions have been formed and are thriving in Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Sibstrin). It allows us to succeed in solving problems of any complexity and taking part in the construction complex development. INSURANCE (Sibstrin) gives students all the opportunities to go in for sports. The University has modern sports and fitness center with 6.3 thousand square meters, considered one of the best ones in Novosibirsk. It also has a stadium, a skiing lodge, and a shooting range. At our University, each student can show his talents and realize his choreography abilities, vocal and acting. View full university

National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (NRU MGSU) was established in 1921. Before 1993, the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering was named after V.V. Kuibyshev (MISI). It is one of the oldest technical institutes of higher education in the Russian Federation. The University comprises ten prominent institutes, more than 50 departments, implementing specialists in a wide range of scientific areas. There are 40 specialized scientific laboratories more than 50 innovative structures are making scientific and venture research in the sphere of design and construction of safe and comfortable buildings, structures, and complexes, being an innovative pool of new knowledge in civil engineering. There are now more than 18000 students studying at the University. NRU MGSU has six branches in the Moscow region and one branch in the Samara region, eight offices in the Moscow region, three offices in the Tumen, Smolensk, and Tula regions, as well as offices in the Republic of Bashkortostan and Stavropol region. The high level of NRU MGSU graduated is confirmed by Certificates of the correspondence of the University's educational activity to the requirements of the International Standard ISO 9001:2008. The certificate was awarded by the Swiss company SGS, being part of the elite of the International Accreditation Forum is recognized in 140 countries of the world. The National Research University "Moscow State University of Civil Engineering" – is the leading institution of the Russian Federation in construction and architectural education. The University provides training (all forms of education: full-time, part-time, including training with the use of distance learning technologies). Education is possible on a budget or paid basis. NRU MGSU is the participant of the contest on the filiation of universities of the Russian Federation for independent selection for the training based on quotas of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for well-performing candidates and winners of the Olympiad. "It is time to study in Russia!". In NRU MGSU, the order of control of an entrance and an exit of persons from buildings of the National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (NRU MGSU) and bringing and carrying out of material values, entrance, and departure of motor transport is established. Access control in NRU MGSU is carried out by the bureau of admissions and two departments of the Safety Department's protection. The main objective of access control is the safety of students, teachers, and workers of NRU MGSU, and also the implementation of measures for counteraction to possible criminal and terrorist manifestations. More than 150 students, postgraduate and lecturers of the University annually participate in international exchange programs. More than 200 lecturers of the University take part in international programs of further education, qualification upgrading, and practical courses. More than 1 500 students and lecturers of NRU MGSU annually participate in international conferences, seminars, exhibitions, and forums. As a modern University with an international focus, we have broad international ties with universities, scientific and research institutes, building companies from neighboring and far-abroad states. At the present moment, NRU MGSU is actively cooperating with 80 foreign institutes of higher education from 35 countries of the world. Among them are: Austria, Byelorussia, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, France, Finland, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Scotland, Tajikistan, the USA, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. The University takes part in the European Union programs such as Tempus and Erasmus Mundus programs and many international projects and programs, implemented with the support of the European funds, agencies, embassies, and many others. View full university

The Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation (MSTUCA) invites young people who want to devote their lives to Civil Aviation and get an exciting and prestigious profession, become acquainted with experienced and well-wishing professors make new friends. The Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation is a leading aerospace institution of higher education in Russia which trains civil aviation specialists to maintain aircraft. The MSTUCA graduates get a job not only in Civil Aviation and transport field but also in other industries. The University cooperates with many foreign educational institutions and trains international students from more than 35 countries. Experienced scientists-academicians head the University departments. There are professors and academicians from different public and scientific Academies in Russia and abroad. Renowned figures in science and technology are among them. The training and research laboratories are equipped with modern computers, instruments, devices, stands, simulators, working models of aviation equipment, technical training, and knowledge test aids. This makes it possible to conduct classes and carry out scientific work at the modern science and technology level. The University library contains textbooks on specialties of all the departments. There are publications on actual problems of science, technology, and social sciences. It is one of the best aviation-oriented libraries in Russia. Digital library resources are part of the MSTUCA library, which is regularly replenished by the works of our University professors. The MSTUCA has a hostel located in a park near the University and the underground station. The students live in rooms for 2 or 3 persons. Living alone is possible if there is an available room. There are right conditions for studying in the hostel too. The University's facilities provide suitable conditions for amateur activities, students' festivals, concerts of masters of art, and popular musical groups. The University has a sports complex and many athletes' clubs. International students have classes together with Russian students. Studying is conducted in the Russian language. Foreign citizens, who speak Russian, take the admission exams for the first-year course at the MSTUCA. Foreign citizens, who do not speak Russian, have an opportunity to take a one-year Pre-University course. View full university