Perm National Research Polytechnic University was founded in 1953 as Perm Polytechnic Institute. In 1992 it was among the first polytechnic institutes in Russia that gained the status of State Technical University. In 2007 the University became one of the winners of the innovational education programs contest. In 2009 together with other 29 universities in Russia, awarded the status of "National Research University" by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science due to competitive selection. University has nine faculties, eight institutes, seven centers for advanced training, 29 research and education centers, 36 teaching and research laboratories, five engineering centers. University offers 187 educational programs for higher professional education, including 57 master's programs and 54 postgraduate programs. Annually over 5,500 specialists graduate from the University. In July 2012, our University was audited by TUV SUD Management Service GmbH, which confirmed the ISO 9001:2008 standard for the second time. 9-11June 2014, the "Russian Register" Certification Association conducted an inspection audit of the quality management system at PNRPU and its Chaikovsky branch. University QMS was found to be in full compliance with ISO 9001:2008 for the development and provision of educational services, conducting scientific research and development, and technological, design, construction, and assembly works and services. Appropriate certificates were issued.
In more than 50 years, the Perm National Research Polytechnic University has contributed significantly to education, science, and culture promoted in Perm Kray, the Urals, and Russia.
As a legal successor and tradition keeper of the Perm Institute of Mines as well as the Perm Technical Institute, the University has become a multifield institution of higher education that provides high-quality training and retraining of workers in a wide range of technical, engineering specializations as well as natural science, economic-management and socio-humanities.
In the time of knowledge economy and innovations, the University provides training for new generation specialists, shapes modern progressive world-view, develops all-human and professional competencies that allow the graduates to get adapted to Russia's socio-cultural life first-rate countries. Based on the competence and experience of the faculties, the mission of the University is the provision of the following points:
- The satisfaction of citizen and society needs in high-qualitative higher, graduate and additional professional education
- Realization of fundamental and applied scientific researches on the level of international achievements
- Stimulation of knowledge and technology promotion, development of innovation-based market infrastructure
- Personal versatile education of a future specialist showing a high level of expertise, culture, refinement, social activity, and features of a patriot citizen
- Arrangement of conditions to make information resources and generated knowledge accessible to the population.
The University is going on to develop its activities based on the unities of educational, scientific and innovational processes and pass ahead of educational content development of practical professional activity as well as take hands-on activities in the formation of global education and research space, contribute to the success of its graduates in the competitive environments.
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