Ulyanovsk State Technical University

Ulyanovsk State Technical University (UlSTU, Ulyanovsk/RUSSIA) is a unique centre for engineering education and science in Russia. UlSTU trains highly-qualified specialists in a wide range of technical and mathematical sciences, humanities and economics as well. UlSTU is proud of its history, its alumni and high educational standards comprising training, research and inventive activities. UlSTU is a leading establishment in intellectual property certificates obtained across Russia (more than 5090 patents on inventions, utility models and other objects). Ulyanovsk State Technical University has more than 10 000 students in different fields of study including foreign students from 30 countries. Faculties and Institutes:

• Information Systems and Technologies
• Mechanical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Power Engineering
• Radio Engineering
• Engineering and Economics
• Humanities
• Aviation Technologies and Management
• Distance and Additional Training
• Extramural

Ulyanovsk State Technical University (USTU) is situated in Central Russia, in the city of Ulyanovsk that straddles the Volga river, about 900 km south-east from Moscow. USTU is the academic, scientific and industrial complex, that is situated on the area of 87.3 hectares. It has a developed infrastructure. Total area of all of the buildings of the University makes up 143.8 thousand square meters. The area used for the educational buildings makes up 89218 square meters, or 17.4 square meters per each student. The University and its structure subdivisions also make the additional training and improvement of professional skills of specialists from plants and institutions, carries out the direct preparation of specialists according to the orders of the enterprises and according to the agreements with physical persons, teaches the citizens new professions, presents other educational cervices. In addition to the technical specialities the number of new humanitarian, socio-economic and natural specialities that are of much demand was opened during the previous years.

We pay much attention to the individual training of talanted students. Since 1993 there exist some Russian-speaking groups where the teaching is conducting in English. Such kind of preparation enlarges the sphere of future professional activity of university graduates. University takes part in the realization of the federal program on distance education in the Russian Federation. This realization is conducting in cooperation with Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Information Science. Within the bounds of the working agreement the regional center of distance education was founded and there was begun the training on 4 specialities. There was developed a concept and there is creating the system of distance education with the use of new information-communicative technologies on the territory of Ulyanovsk region.