Voronezh State University is a research-led institution. Its research activities are organized within 18 faculties, six research institutes, and 16 research laboratories administered by the Russian Academy of Sciences. Our ten research and development centers have a strong record of collaborating with the region's leading commercial and public sector organizations. We pride ourselves on fundamental cutting-edge research currently carried out in the Nanotechnology Centre and the Science Park, which house state-of-the-art facilities and implement advanced technologies enabling us to retain high rankings among the leading Russian Universities consistently. We are among the Top 100 BRICS Universities (17th in Russia and 90th in BRICS). We have an excellent academic portfolio of over 100 postgraduate courses available both to Russian and international students. Aiming to provide more significant research opportunities, we expand our postgraduate courses every year across different faculties. We offer a multitude of undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses (both full- and part-time) which center around the following primary research and teaching programs:
- Physics and mathematics
- Radiophysics
- Electronics
- Natural sciences
- Geosciences
- Humanities and social sciences
- Educational theory and pedagogy
- Medicine and pharmaceutics
- Economics and management.
Over 1400 staff are currently actively involved in research projects, including 100 research fellows, three full members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 70 academicians and corresponding Russian and foreign Academies, and 292 professors. A total of 43 staff members hold various honorary titles awarded by the Russian Federation government for their outstanding achievements and notable contribution to their research fields.
The university's research portfolio includes as many as 28 key research areas, emphasizing ground-breaking research into nanotechnologies. Throughout its long and glorious history, Voronezh State University has formed more than 40 internationally recognized academic and research communities that annually undertake more than 200 research projects and are regularly awarded national and international grants to pursue their research. Currently, the staff is actively engaged in 8 international projects as part of TEMPUS and FP7 .programs.
Voronezh State University is home to 25 Dissertation Defense Boards, which oversee the preparation and the defense of Ph.D., Dr. Phil. habil, and Dr. Phil. Nat. habil dissertations and submit recommendations to the Supreme Certifying Committee for the award of postgraduate degrees. Voronezh State University is highly committed to distributing and exchanging knowledge and expertise generated by our researchers. We have rightfully earned a reputation as a leading research center in Russia due to a total of more than 60 national and international conferences that we host on an annual basis. We also view it as our number-one priority to uphold a long-established tradition of international quality academic publishing over more than 95 years of our history. We are proud to have awarded degrees to more than 100 000 graduates. Nearly 1650 academic staff work at the university, including 277 professors and 856 senior lecturers. Some of the university's most notable members of staff include.
VSU's Mission is to generate scientific knowledge, conduct interdisciplinary programs to train highly qualified professionals, and implement innovative solutions, ensuring a high quality of life under the national interest and global market demands. VSU sees itself as:
- An achievement-oriented world-class center of research and education for the Sciences and Natural and Human Resource Management
- A center of interdisciplinary training of Russian and international students in academic programs which are competitive at the international level
- An entrepreneurial university whose activities are focused on accelerating technology transfer and the adoption of innovative technologies in the hi-tech sector of the economy of the Central Black Earth Region and Russia as a whole
- A dedicated institutional leader in the Central Black Earth Region committed to pooling the higher education system's intellectual and cultural resources to enhance the socio-economic prosperity and improve the people's living standards.
VSU is among the top four Russian universities in international students and the number of contacts with the leading international universities. The history of teaching international students at VSU comprises over 50 years. About 15 thousand overseas students, postgraduate students, and interns from 126 different countries received various degrees from VSU. Currently, there are about 1 000 international students at VSU.
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