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.