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Before the Tambov State University, named after G.R. Derzhavin, like many universities in our country, faces new challenges. They are associated with the demographic decline and the financial crisis. Students' motivation to continue their education decreases; employers are not always satisfied with the quality of educational services. The education market itself is shrinking, and distance technologies are shifting competition for educational services to new levels. In such conditions, the requirements for higher education establishments are increasing. The orientation of the University into classical university specialties allows you to position his mission. Derzhavin University is the center of potential human reproduction for the Tambov region and Central Russia. Through the system of preservation, dissemination, and creation of knowledge, sociocultural values, the broadcasting of current information, the University prepares the future intellectual elite of the society based on the integration of education, science, and innovations. The University provides comprehensive development of the individual, training highly qualified specialists with entrepreneurial skills. A classical education makes it possible in the conditions of the knowledge and innovation economy to respond flexibly to the labor market's needs, several times throughout one's life to modify specialization, to build a variable professional trajectory. The main goal of the university development is to increase the competitiveness of our graduates in the labor market, the role of the University in the socio-economic, scientific, technical, and sociocultural space of the Tambov region and Central Russia, ensuring the sustainability of its development in interaction with the environment through openness, scientific, educational, consulting and expert activity, educational work. TSU them. G.R. Derzhavin is a classical university that provides a variety of fundamental training directions. The main directions of educational and scientific activity of Tambov State University. G.R. Derzhavin is a priority for socio-economic development of the region: medical, pedagogical, where the regional needs for personnel are the highest and innovative, economical, legal, humanitarian, and sociocultural. In this regard, the implementation of the Strategy is related to the development of strategic priorities: Pedagogical education - the formation of a new generation, the development of social and professional success. Derzhavin University provides training of pedagogical personnel for all levels of education using modern approaches and teaching methods. Medical education - improving the quality of life through the development of health-saving technologies. The University of Derzhavin is implementing a program for the growth of medical care and high biomedical technologies development. Natural and physical, and mathematical education is the Tambov region's development as a center of food security, active implementation of innovations, and innovative technologies. Derzhavinsky University supports the development of fundamental and applied research in priority areas and takes an active part in Russia's technological platforms. Legal education - the creation of modernized legal mechanisms for managing the region, the development of legal culture and relations. The priorities of Derzhavin University remain civil education of students and service to society. Financial education - support for the transition to a new development stage, reindustrialization of the region. Derzhavin University makes a practical contribution to the innovative development and competitiveness of the Tambov region and Central Russia, an expert consultative center for socio-economic development. Sociocultural, historical, and philological education - the region's positioning in the cultural space and preservation of historical and cultural heritage. Derzhavin University is the center of cultural life and spiritual and moral development. View full university

Tambov State Technical University is considered to be one of the largest educational institutions in the region. It was founded in 1958 as the Tambov affiliate of Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering and called Tambov Institute of Chemical Engineering. In 1993 the Institute was renamed Tambov State Technical University. More than 50 000 specialists with higher education diplomas have been trained during almost 60 years of university existence. Many university graduates head large industrial enterprises and institutions of the Tambov region and other Russian areas. Now the University presents itself with an integrated continuous education system, including preschool, school, University, and post-graduate levels. This system's basic principles are the availability of education for all social groups, the life-long character of education, a combination of humanitarian and technical courses. The following formula expresses the university Mission: to receive, store, develop and disseminate knowledge using advanced information technologies, to provide training and consulting services, create unique high tech products, to train competitive specialists for the Russian and international market, to support the economic development of the Tambov region. Now the University comprises eight institutes, four faculties, 46 departments, offers 37 Bachelor programs, 62 Master courses, and four graduate programs in various fields. The total number of students is about 9 000. The University is located in 14 buildings, has a library with a stock of 1500000 books, a learning management system VitaLMS giving access to distance learning technologies, four student hostels, four canteens, a stadium, a swimming pool, camps in the countryside near the river. The University wireless (Wi-Fi) service is designed as a primary access network for TSTU students and staff. This network provides Wi-Fi coverage inside most buildings, and associated colleges present some outdoor areas of the university campus Pre-university training. The Center for advanced training and retraining is also an essential part of the university structure. These subdivisions, together with the leading institutes and faculties, form a system of continuous education. TSTU graduates have the opportunity to continue education at the post-graduate school and then at the doctorate. The research results are published in the scientific journals "TSTU Transactions" with abstracts in four languages, "Problems of Contemporary Science and Practice. Vernadsky University", "Advanced Materials and Technologies," "Law: History and Modernity." More than 750 international students and post-graduates from 50 countries study at Tambov State Technical University. Foreign professors come to TSTU to read lectures in joint international projects and programs, University students and employees participate in academic mobility processes, and international conferences are organized: the University is developing rapidly. Currently, TSTU consists of 8 institutes and four faculties, 46 departments, and three associated colleges providing study in accredited study programs within the complex system of bachelor, specialist, master, and post-graduate levels. Degree programs are compliant with the Bologna system and comprise three levels: Bachelor and Specialist programs with four or 5-year periods of study, respectively Master programs - 2 years Post-graduate programs - 3 or 4 years Every year TSTU offers about 300 degree and non-degree programs available in seven primary areas: Chemical Engineering, Nanotechnologies, Materials and Technologies Architecture, Civil Engineering, Municipal, and Urban Engineering Power, Tool Engineering and Radio Electronics Information and Telecommunication Technologies Biotechnologies and Processing of Agricultural Products Economics and Law Rational Nature Management, Ecology and Energy- and Resource-Saving TSTU graduates have the opportunity to continue education at the post-graduate school and then at the doctorate. The system of additional professional training and retraining presents itself as an institute comprising ten specialized centers for training and professional development, offering more than 50 study programs being annually renewed considering changeable demands of the economy, industry, and regional labor market. Every year about 2500 specialists from Tambov and neighboring regions get advanced professional training and training in innovative programs. TSTU is on the edge of the science: chemistry, functional and construction materials, nanotechnologies information systems and information security energy- and resource-saving bio-power engineering, new polymer and composite materials, the list of innovative research of TSTU is not completed. View full university