General Information about NSTU

Novosibirsk State Technical University, one of the largest research and

educational centres of Russia, was organized according to the USSR Council of
Ministries' Decree of 19 August 1950 and the USSR Minister of Culture Order,
and was known at the as Novosibirsk Institute of Electrical Engineering. In
accordance with the Order of Russian Federation Ministry of Science, Higher
School and Technical Policy of 24 December 1992 N 1133, Novosibirsk Institute
of Electrical Engineering was renamed as Novosibirsk State Technical University
(NSTU). In November 1996, the University has successfully passed the regular
attestation and confirmed its status. The State Commission for Russia Higher
Schools' Attestation acknowledged preparedness of NSTU to graduate highly
skilled specialists in all directions of higher, postgraduate, and corresponding
additional professional education.

The University trains specialists in engineering, social-economic direction as well

as humanities. Today, the University is granted a right to train students in
twenty-seven licensed directions and sixty-six fields of higher and professional
education, with the work aimed for licensing new fields going on. The annual
state budget full-time enrolment in the first year of studies is 1415 students and
525 in correspondence. Besides, out-of-competition enrolment, with complete
tuition fees paid, is made in all directions and fields of study.

Training specialists is carried out in lecture-rooms and laboratories totalling

112,525 square meters. The University occupies seven buildings which have all
the necessary faculties for giving high quality lectures and classes. All -
University, Faculties and Departments' computer classrooms on the on the basis
of up-to-date personal computers (1230 all in all) have been set up. All the
seven buildings are linked up to the local University network including more
than forty servers of different levels and purposes. 1200 work places linked up
to the Internet. Laboratories of engineering faculties are equipped with up-to-
date machine-tools, test equipment, and industrial robots. The largest the city
university library with its extensive stock of text-books, scientific literature,
fiction, and periodical is available to students.

The University has ten faculties and two institutes: Institute of Social
Rehabilitation and Institute of Distant Education, 73 departments, two branches
and nine NSTU representative offices. The total number of students are 16180,
including 10,483 full-time students. 400 of this number are international
students.

The teaching staff are 968 full-time lecturers including 101 full professor, D.Sc.,
536 associate professors, Cand.Sc.; 216 lecturers are part-time teachers
including 83 full professor, D.Sc., 126 associate professor, Cand.Sc. NSTU
research scientists pursue fundamental and applied research in various
directions of science and engineering, participate, on a competitive basis, in a
number of federal and ministerial programmes. High level of scientific research
allows the University to be come a venue of a number of international, all -
Russian and regional conferences. The University scientists publish monographs,
articles in foreign, Russian and university editions. They are authors of
textbooks and teaching manuals as well. The University has long-standing
traditions to pursue research in the field of higher education, increasing the
quality if education and training specialists. NSTU has a significant innovation
potential, experience in innovation activity and international innovation
cooperation, with attracting students and teaching staff to carry out real-life
innovation projects, which increases the quality of education and facilitates the
training of highly-qualified specialists.

The University offers Cand.Sc. and (post) doctoral programmes, total number of
postgraduate students and doctoral candidates, and Candidate degree
competitors being 350 people. There are eleven specialist councils conferring
Cand.Sc. degree. Among the University undergraduate and postgraduate
students are many prize winners of republican and regional subject olympiads
and creative competitions, holders of Russian Federation President's,
Government's, Regional and City Administration grants as well as grant-holders
of various foreign companies.

NSTU works in active cooperation with foreign partners. International exchange

is a major constituent part of scientific and educational process. The University
concluded 25 agreements on cooperation in the field of scientific research,
education, and culture. The University teaching staff participate in many
programmes of European Community, various international conferences and
symposiums. During the recent seven years, NSTU became the venue of 40
various international events. There are 400 international students studying at
the University.

At NSTU, much attention is paid to health, and physical training of students,

cultural and educational work. Good conditions are provided for recreation and
sports for teaching stuff and students at NSTU; There are an after-work
sanatorium, polyclinic, hospital; summer sport centre Sharap situated on the
bank of the Ob sea and Erlagol in Mountainous Altai where up to 1260 people
spend their summer vacations annually; the University sport centre with its
gyms, winter swimming pool, sports grounds, ski deport, and shooting gallery.

The centre for culture with its humanities laboratory and various clubs are
successfully operating.

As a result of attention paid to health of the students and teaching staff, to

cultural and educational work, and to sports, there are mane prize winners in
various contests, festivals, sports and athletic meetings.

For accommodation of students of other towns, there are seven hostels with
premises totaling 53,562 square metres.

The University runs the Centre for Additional Professional Education, Centre for
Pre-University Educational consisting of Preparatory Department and
Engineering Lycee.

Novosibirsk State Technical University

At the end of the 1940s both industrial giants transfered from the central part of
the country to the Novosibirsk region during the war time and newly built
industrial enterprises producing electrical equipment and radio facilities lacked
specialists - researchers, designers, engineers, etc. As a consequence, the
Council of Ministers of the USSR passed a resolution on setting up a new higher
educational institution - Novosibirsk Electrical Engineering Institute (NETI)
signed by I.V. Stalin on 19 August 1950. Later, it accordance with the order of
the Ministry of Science, Higher School and Engineering Policy of the Russian
Federation No 1133 of 24.12.92 it got the status of University and was renamed
Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU).
Associate Professor A.K. Potuzhny was appointed the first Rector of the
Institute. From May 1955 to November 1989 the Institute was headed by
Professor G.P. Lyshchinsky. In 1990 Professor A.S. Vostrikov, D. Sc., was elected
Rector of the University. In 2000 he was re-elected Rector of NSTU for the third
term. At present Prof. A.S. Vostrikov is an Honored Researcher of the RF, a
member of several Academies of Sciences, an honorary professor of Samara and
Altai Universities as well as of Harbin Polytechnical Institute (China).

At present Novosibirsk State Technical University is one of the largest

universities in Siberia. The University was one of the first universities in Russia
to implement a multi-level scheme of training. Currently, a three-level scheme is
used in full-part training at all the faculties of NSTU. Training is carried out in 26
licenced directions and 66 fields of specialization in engineering, economics, and
humanities, work on licecning new specialized fields being continued. An annual
first-year enrollment amounts to 1,415 in full-time and 525 in part-time options
respectively. Tuition is free for students who fully meet the admission
requirements. Besides, training on a contract basis is offered in all directions
and fields of specialization.

The University has 8 teaching buildings, their total area being 115,729 m2. Its
research laboratories and classrooms are provided with modern facilities and
equipment to provide a high standard of training. All the premises of the
University comprise21 buildings with the total area of 233,697 m2. The
University is actively involved in developing and expanding its laboratory and
research facilities. Computer classes set up at all the faculties and departments
of the University are equipped with 1,600 up-to-date personal computers. All
the eight teaching buildings are connected to the University local computer
network having more than 80 servers of various levels and application. 1,200
workstations have an access to the Internet. Instructional and research
laboratories of the engineering faculties are equipped with machine-tools,
instrumentation devices, and industrial robots to make the training process
efficient and effective.. The richest in the city library having over 1 million
textbooks, manuals, reference books, periodicals, and fiction books provides a
wide range of services to students and staff.

Training is carried out at 10 faculties: Aircraft; Applied Mathematics and

Computer Science; Automation and Computer Engineering; Business
Administration; Electromechanical; Power Engineering; Humanities; Mechanics
and Technology; Physical Engineering, Radio Engineering, Electronics and
Physics. There are 75 departments and 56 research and instructional
laboratories functioning at the University. Several large centres, among them
the research and methodology centre; information technologies centre; pre-
university education centre as well as students' research and design centre,
contribute to the activity of the University.
The Institute for social rehabilitation of deaf and partially deaf people is part of
the University structure. A three-level specialist training is offered to physically
disabled people at the Engineering and Applied Arts faculties. The Distance
Training Institute having 13 affiliated centres located in 10 Russian and CIS
towns is also incorporated into the University. Over 1,900 people study there.
The total number of undergraduate and graduate students amounts to 17,977
people. Taking into account postgraduate and doctoral students together with
learners earning their second degree as well as students of the preparatory
department (both full-time and part-time) and students of the University lyceum
we come to a figure of 25,101 students.
The University has acquired deep- rooted traditions in studying problems of
university education, in improving and developing the training process, and in
increasing the standard and quality of specialist training. The research and
creative potential of NSTU is high. It has gained great experience in conducting
innovation activity and in international innovation co-operation, with its students
and professors being involved in implementing concrete innovation projects,
which increases the quality of education and contributes to training highly
qualified specialists. The University has launched the development of its own
system of education quality evaluation. Within this programme the model of the
annual analytical report 'Quality of Education in NSTU' has been developed and
adopted. The activity of the University in the field of education quality is
considered to be of top priority.
NSTU has initiated an efficient system of pre-university training which helps to
maintain a high quality standard of university education. A centre for pre-
university education and a technical lyceum have been set up in NSTU. Besides,
the University has concluded agreements with 55 secondary schools, lyceums
and gymnasiums in Russia and 10 secondary schools and gymnasiums have
been granted the right for their school leavers to be enrolled in the University
without taking the admission examinations. The popularity of the University is
steadily growing. Despite the severe requirements to applicants who have to
take not less than three entrance examinations, an average school rating being
taken into account, a great many young people are striving to study in NSTU,
the most prestigious university in Novosibirsk.
Maintenance and further increasing of scientific and research potential are given
top priority in the development of the University. Competent and experienced
academic and research staff known for their commitment to excellence in
instruction and research have made the University a leader among other
technical and classical universities in Siberia. 111 full-time professors with
doctoral degrees and 518 full-time associate professors with Candidate degrees
as well as 68 part-time professors with doctoral degrees and 110 part-time
associate professors with Candidate degrees teach and do research at the
University.

Persistent and consistent work is being conducted to prepare research and

academic staff through post graduate and doctoral programmes. The total
number of students taking these courses is 400 people. There are 11 specialized
academic councils to confer the degrees of Doctor and Candidate of sciences in
various fields of research functioning at the University. Many undergraduate,
graduate and post graduate students are prize-winners at republican and
regional contests and competitions in various disciplines. The best students have
been awarded grants of the President, the government of the Russian
Federation, the local administration, and the city council as well as grants
offered various foreign firms.
Research is being conducted in many scientific directions. Schools of thought
created in NSTU are well-known not only in Siberia and Russia but also abroad.
Scientists and researchers of the University are actively involved in various
scientific and engineering programmes of the Ministry of Education of Russia,
the Ministry of Science, RFFI and RGNF. Being the largest higher school in
Novosibirsk, NSTU has acquired a considerable experience of introducing the
results of scientific research into practice due to many years of scientific and
technical co-operation with both civil industrial enterprises and enterprises of
the military -industrial complex.
The Novosibirsk Regional power saving centre has been set up in NSTU. The
Information Centre INOVA has been organized in NSTU in close co-operation
with the French Association INOVA which comprises the biggest enterprises and
industrials groups of France. This centre bridges industrial enterprises and
organizations of France and Siberia. In 1998, engineering structures to carry out
innovation research and implement innovation projects for the industrial
enterprises in Siberia which finance the projects and the development of
innovation activity infrastructure were created.
Co-operation with research institutes of the Siberian Division of the Russian
Academy of Sciences (SD RAS), branch research institutions and leading
industrial enterprises of Novosibirsk contributes to the development of science
and improving the quality of training highly qualified specialists based on the
latest achievements in science and technology.

Since 1997 NSTU has been participating in FCP "Integration" within the
framework of which Novosibirsk Research Institute of High Technologies (NRIHT)
has been set up. Its activities are aimed at coordinating and conducting
research in developing and creating new up-to-date research intensive
technologies and training highly qualified researchers and engineers. NRIHT
comprises 10 research and training centres, 8 of them being headed by NSTU.

Most favorable conditions for publishing the results of research and exchanging
scientific information have been created at the University which differentiates
NSTU from other universities in Novosibirsk, Siberia, and Russia as a whole.
Over 5 years regular publishing of "Nauchny Vestnik of NSTU", "Collection of
Papers Published by Postgraduate and Doctoral Students", "Siberian Journal of
Industrial Mathematics" and Papers of the Academy of Sciences of Higher School
of the Russian Federation has been arranged, the latter being published jointly
with the SD RAS. Great attention is given to publishing textbooks and manuals
which reflect the results of research carried out at the departments. Only in the
year 2000 318 textbooks and manuals as well as 1,614 papers were published.

There hardly exists any other higher school in Novosibirsk publishing so many
information bulletins, journals and newspapers. Currently, 4 periodicals are
published in NSTU. They are the "TV-Inform", students' newspapers "Energia"
and "Absats" as well as "FiGaRo" journal issued by students of the Philological
department.

NSTU co-operates actively and extensively with its foreign partners.

International exchange programmes are an integral part of the training process
and research. The University has signed 25 agreements on co-operation in
science, education and culture with 13 countries of the world. Over the last 5
years 481 foreign citizens have come to the University and 337 University staff
members have visited foreign countries within the framework of the
international exchange programmes of NSTU.

The University has entered the European Association of Universities and the
European Council of Rectors. It has become a member of the Salzburg seminar
programme, the project of the World Technological University under the
auspices of UNESCO and established co-operation with the British Council.

The academic staff of the University are involved in many programmes of the
European community and participate in various international conferences and
symposia.

NSTU provides the amenities needed in a modern university. Sports and

recreation facilities as well as cultural activities are provided on the campus.
Particular attention is paid to maintaining and improving health and physical
state of students The University Health Service includes a preventive medicine
centre, polyclinic and hospital, their aim being to protect the health of students
by the prevention, detection and treatment of physical diseases and
psychological and emotional disorders. Two kindergartens run by professional
nurses and teachers are available for under-school age children of students and
staff. Two students' dining-rooms and a cafe provide meals and snacks for
students and staff on the campus. Facilities for physical recreation are available
for all members of the University community. On the campus there is a splendid
indoor sports complex incorporating sports halls and gyms, a swimming pool
and playing areas. There is also a stadium, shooting-gallery and skiing centre.
28 sports are cultivated at NSTU. Readily available are facilities for basketball,
volleyball, boxing, wrestling, martial arts: unarmed self-defense, judo and
karate, fencing, table tennis, lawn tennis, etc. Over many years the University
has been a prize winner at the City students' sports competitions and
tournaments. The University Physical Recreation Centre which caters for outdoor
sport incorporates the "Sharap" sports base located on the coast of the Ob sea
and the "Erlagol" sports camp in Gorny Altai, with 1,260 people visiting them
every year.

The University provides excellent facilities for, and gives considerable support to,
activities in arts. The activities are arranged by the students' club and laboratory
of humanities. 700 students and professors have attended the classes of vocal
singing in the Academic Choir of NSTU over 35 years of its existence.. The
University has an Ensemble of Violinists which celebrated its 30th anniversary in
the year 2000. The Group of Bardic Poetry - a permanent participant of All-
Russia and Siberian festivals- has also celebrated its 25th anniversary.

This particular attention to social, cultural and athletic activities of students and
staff has manifested itself in prizes and awards won by them in various
prestigious contests, art festivals and sports competitions

Great attention is given to the development and improvement of living and

housing conditions of students and staff. The University provides
accommodation for 4,665 students in seven halls of residence - two tower
blocks and five high rise buildings, their total area being 67,219m2. The
University makes every effort to improve housing conditions of the staff. In
1999 staff members moved to new 4-storeyed cottages located near the
campus on the bank of the Ob river.

The Institute of further specialist training incorporating various faculties and

specialized centres functions successfully in NSTU. It is the leading institution of
the Novosibirsk specialized educational consortium organized to implement the
Russian President's Management Training Programme. Besides, a Pilot centre of
the Higher School of Economics for training specialists for the system of state
purchases has been set up at the University.

75,000 undergraduate and graduate students have been trained at the

University since its foundation in 1953. They have made a great contribution to
the development of science and technology thus bringing fame and high
reputation to the University. Among the alumni are members of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, deputies of the State Duma, administrative workers of
ministries and government departments, directors of largest industrial
enterprises of Novosibirsk, heads of local administration bodies, bankers,
businessmen, journalists, etc. It is impossible to name an area in which the
alumni of NSTU don't work.

Over the years of its existence Novosibirsk State Technical University has
become one of the leading universities of Russia due to its great achievements
in science and engineering and commitment to a high standard and quality of
training.. Currently the main and most important goal the academic and
research staff of NSTU are working for is not to rest content with what has been
achieved but to further develop and improve its great scientific, research and
educational potential.