SUSU is the center of educational, scientific, cultural and sports life of the South Urals.
Founded on November 2, 1943 as the Chelyabinsk Mechanical Engineering Institute, in 1951 it was transformed into the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute, and in 1990 - into the Chelyabinsk State Technical University. Since 1997 it has been the South Ural State University.
Today SUSU has 9 institutes, 3 higher schools, as well as a military training faculty and a pre-university training faculty. There are 10 branches of the university in the cities of Russia.
About 40 thousand students study at the university and its branches. The educational process is provided by over 5,000 teachers and staff, including more than 360 professors and doctors of sciences, 1,600 candidates of sciences and associate professors. The university employs 3 academicians and 7 corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2 academicians and 2 corresponding members of other state academies. 229 employees and teachers were awarded with departmental insignia of various levels.
Training of bachelors, masters and specialists is carried out in more than 200 areas and specialties. The University conducts training in 25 areas of secondary vocational education. Several thousand graduates graduate from the university every year. For all the time, more than 220 thousand specialists with higher education, tens of thousands of reserve officers, candidates and doctors of sciences have been trained.
The faculty of pre-university training has a physics and mathematics school, a Center for Working with Gifted Children and an Engineering School of SUSU. On the initiative of the university, the Russian Association for the Odyssey of Mind International Program was created. In order to identify and support talented children and youth, the Regional Festival-Competition "The Future of Russia" is being held. Together with the largest state corporations and employers, SUSU organized and conducts the Multidisciplinary Engineering Olympiad "Zvezda". Much attention is paid to career guidance and work on the formation of motivation of applicants to choose engineering areas of training.
Currently, the university is training teaching staff in postgraduate studies in 24 areas (83 specialties), and in doctoral studies; training of scientific and pedagogical personnel for industrial enterprises and research institutes, as well as for enterprises of the military-industrial complex (Roskosmos, Rosatom, etc.). On the basis of SUSU there are 12 dissertation councils for the defense of doctoral and master's theses.
The university pays great attention to all types of internships and employment of graduates. The department of student practice and employment (OPTS), created in 2005, provides coordination of the activities of the university structural units and methodological support of practices; interaction with enterprises and employment services; conducts marketing research of the labor market; organizes the work of commissions to promote employment of graduates at faculties. The university has concluded about 3000 cooperation agreements with large enterprises in Chelyabinsk and the region.
The university is active in scientific, research and design activities. On the basis of the university there is a Research Institute of Digital Information Processing and Protection Systems; Research and Production Institute "Educational Equipment and Technologies"; 11 research and educational centers, including Aerospace Technologies, Composite Materials and Structures, Mathematical Modeling and Applied Programming, Mechanical Engineering, Nanotechnology and others; Supercomputer modeling laboratory, as well as more than 60 laboratories of faculties, institutes and branches. More than 50 scientific schools have been established and operate at the university.
SUSU actively cooperates with transnational corporations (Emerson company) and major industrial enterprises such as CJSC PG Metran and OJSC NPK Uralvagonzavod. Among the customers of the university: PJSC KAMAZ, OJSC AvtoVAZ, LLC Ural Diesel Engine Plant, LLC ChTZ-URALTRAK, OJSC Automobile Plant Ural and others.
In 2004, the SUSU Institute for Open and Distance Education (IODO) was established. His activity was based on the experience and development of the SUSU Center for Distance Education, which has existed since 2001: documentation support for the management of an educational structure using distance technologies; methodological basis for creating resources for distance learning process; system of professional development of the teaching staff; scientific research, etc.
In 2010, the University opened the Institute of International Education, which prepares foreign citizens for admission to Russian universities and coordinates the international educational programs of the university.
The SUSU Scientific Library is the largest university library in the region. The total fund of the library complex is more than 2.8 million items. The Internet library provides open access to an electronic catalog, a collection of full-text electronic versions of SUSU educational and methodological publications and abstracts of dissertations.
The publishing center has a modern printing base. Every year it publishes more than 700 titles of scientific and educational literature, is a multiple winner of regional, interregional and all-Russian competitions of publishing and printing literature.
Since 1956, the university has published the newspaper "Technopolis". Since 2002, an educational TV and radio center began to work, and since 2005 - the first student TV and radio company "SUSU-TV" in Russia, since 2006 a university radio studio has been operating at SUSU.
The Center for Creativity and Leisure has been operating for over 50 years. In 1963, a student theater "Mannequin" was created at the university, which became municipal in 1996. Many collectives of the university, with whom the leading choreographers, musicians and directors of Chelyabinsk work, perform professionally at the venues of the city and the region, are laureates of all-Russian and international competitions.
Since 2002, a physical culture and sports club has been operating at the university, among whose pupils there are masters of sports, members of the Olympic teams. The SUSU sports complex includes an athletics arena, one of the largest swimming pools in Russia, and a winter stadium. On the shore of Lake Bolshoy Sunukul there are the recreation center "Science", the sports and health-improving student camp "Olympus", the children's health-improving camp "Berezka".
Among the graduates of the university there are prominent political, scientific and economic figures. Among them are V. Khristenko, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC); V. Myakush, Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region; Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2001-2013) V. Kostyuk. Many graduates became heads of the country's largest industrial enterprises: ChTZ-Ural-Truck, Automobile Plant Ural, ChMK Mechel, ChEMK, PA Mayak, Stankomash and many others. SUSU Rector A. Shestakov and SUSU President, RAS Corresponding Member G. Vyatkin are also graduates of the university.
The university, in fact, from the day of its foundation, has followed a clearly marked innovative course.
In 2007, South Ural State University became the winner in the competition for the best innovative programs of higher educational institutions within the framework of the national project
"Education". SUSU with the program “Energy and Resource Saving Technologies” was among the 40 winners. The University received funding for the purchase of the SKIF-Ural supercomputer.
In 2008, the University opened a Supercomputer Center for modeling applied and fundamental research. The next step was the commissioning of the SKIF-Aurora supercomputer. Today SUSU operates the SUSU Tornado supercomputer, which ranks 348 in the TOP500 rating of the world's most powerful computers.
In October 2015, the University was included in the list of six higher education institutions selected to participate in Project 5-100, which aims to maximize the competitive position of a group of leading Russian universities in the global market for educational services and research programs.
Today South Ural State University is a powerful, modern, dynamically developing scientific and educational center. Based on the accumulated experience and scientific potential, taking into account the trends of the modern economy, the university is constantly improving.
SUSU University in figures
- 30,000 students
- 4000 types of training simulators, computer simulators, simulators
- More than 1000 candidates and doctors of sciences teach
Training format
The university has developed modern forms of distance learning - e-learning and b-learning, as well as massive distance courses in the MOOC format. Otherwise, SUSU has a classical education system. The university has an approved list of disciplines where there are compulsory subjects and subjects to choose from. Each student has the right to draw up his own individual curriculum with those disciplines to choose from that interest him, but it is necessary to choose disciplines. The academic year is divided into 2 semesters, with a mandatory session after each. The student shows the mastery of the subject in the format of credits or exams in basic, specialized disciplines. The duration of study is 4 years (bachelor's degree), or 5 or more years (specialty).
Educational opportunities
- There are international programs
- Have a Dual Degree
Military training
- There is a Military Department
- There is a respite from the army
Extracurricular activities of SUSU
Organization of students' creativity and leisure - it is this activity that attracts students most of all and this is not surprising: the work of creative teams, KVN, the Miss E&P contest, SUSU Talent, Student Spring, student group business card contest, photography contest, games What ? Where? When? "," Dedication to students "," Valentine's Day "- and this is only a small part of the events where students of our faculty can express themselves.
Hostel
- There is a hostel
- 63 ₽ Budget (month)
- 63 ₽ Under the agreement (month)
Scholarship
- 715 - 1,715 rubles State scholarship (month)
- 2,287 ₽ For special academic success (month)
- up to 8,000 rubles For social benefits (month)
Famous graduates
- Leonychev Yuri * IT-architect of the online retail company Rakuten
- Olga Golts * Professor at the University of California, USA
- Ruslan Vaulin * Senior Researcher, Sqrrl Data Inc.