Penza State Technological University

Penza State Technological University is one of the most dynamically developing educational institutions in Russia. Having started in 1959 with training computer science and electronics engineers, we gradually supplement the array of major with machine-building, management, automation, ecology, medical and biotechnology, food engineering and pedagogy.

Now university is a modern technical educational institution with well-developed infrastructure aimed at effective meeting economic development and production challenges of the region. We train specialists for all levels of production – from workers to engineers, from technologists to plant managers. Based on IT applying, educational process of PSTU combines traditions and innovations, theoretical courses and manufacturing practice.

Being a multilevel scientific and educational complex the academy implements:

• Programmes of higher professional education (three daytime departments, an evening department and two correspondence departments);
• Programmes of postsecondary and initial professional education (a technical school, and two vocational schools);
• Programmes of post-gradual professional education (postgraduate (PhD) and doctoral (DSc) courses);
• Programmes of supplementary and extended education (a department of career enhancement and retraining, a centre of additional education, a centre for target training and job placement).

All programs of education take into account regional firms and factories demand for workforce. We train workers, technologists, engineers, instructors for vocational education, managers for chemical, food, machine-building, oil and gas industries, for medicine, power engineering and IT technologies. The academy successfully carries out a project aimed at target training of specialists for plants and companies. There are more than 11,000 students of higher, postsecondary and primary professional education and 300 postgraduate and doctoral students in the academy now. We have internal, extra-mural and remote education forms.

We offer a multitude of undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses which centre around the following major research and teaching programs:

• physics and mathematics
• natural sciences
• humanities and social sciences
• educational theory and pedagogy
• economics and management