The Stavropol State Agrarian University aspires to expand the boundaries of knowledge and learning, provide the training of graduates and professionals, to improve the quality of life of the population of the South of the Russian Federation, and to aspire to the preservation and enhancement of moral, cultural and scientific values of the society. Vision SSAU: training, development, and education of the individuals capable of working anywhere in the world and showing their creativity in a variety of modern society. University values, quality, ethics, professionalism, and creativity. For us, quality means providing our customers with services that meet or exceed their expectations. Working on improving the quality of service is the main objective of each of our employees. In our work, we adhere to high ethical standards. We respect our customers, partners, and employees as unique individuals with individual needs and aspirations. We strive to use the world's best technology and new developments in education and human resource management. We welcome the high personal responsibility of each employee. We welcome openness and strive to enhance communication and information sharing. We are creative, continually generating new ideas. It is our constant source of energy, thanks to which we succeed.
The university won a competitive selection among educational institutions of higher professional education introducing innovative educational programs. The university became a laureate of the Quality Award of the Russian Federation government. This prestigious national award SSAU won for the results achieved in the service quality and introduction of high-performance quality management methods. In the same year, the university became a laureate of the competition "Systems of quality ensuring in specialist training" of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the Federal Service of Education and Science Supervision. Order of Friendship received by the Rector of the university Professor V.I. Trukhachyov from the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin is recognizing the enormous contribution to strengthening the Russian's authority and fame in science and education. The university's strategy is to create conditions for ensuring the high quality of education and another successful career of graduates. The university is one of three leading agricultural universities in the rating of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
More than 13,500 students study at the university, 32 educational programs are being realized. There are 11 faculties, 61 chairs, 30 innovative departments in the structure of the university. There are eight academicians of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 14 academicians and 12 corresponding members of public academies, 131 Doctors of Philosophy and professors, and 416 candidates of sciences and associate professors. The number of teachers having an academic degree is 90.1% – this is the highest figure in Russia's agricultural education system. The training of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel is realized in 34 postgraduate specialties and eight doctoral specialties. The university has four dissertation councils entitled to award scientific degrees of Candidate and Doctor of Sciences in 11 specialties in biological, agricultural, veterinary, and economic sciences. Two hundred ninety-two doctoral and Candidate's dissertations were defended in the dissertation councils of the university.
The university is expanding its international relations. Institutes of higher education of the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Iceland, and other European countries are among the university's partners. The university has made and is realizing 195 association agreements with Russian and foreign institutes of higher education and research centers. SSAU has a master's program with 35 leading European universities. Today, the right professionals' training includes a set of necessary knowledge and skills and understanding of trends in world development, the ability to orient oneself in the dynamic environment and make innovative decisions.
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