Volgograd State University (VolSU, Russian: Волгоградский государственный университет) is a public university and one of the leading institutions of higher education in Volgograd, Russia.
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History
The first year enrollment (250 people) was made in 1980 and offered only 5 majors: Mathematics, Physics, History, Philology, and Linguistics at the Faculty of Sciences and Humanities. Today, the structure of the university includes Volzhsky Humanitarian Institute and five campuses in the cities of Volgograd Region: Kalach-na-Donu, Uryupinsk, Mikhaylovka, Frolovo and Akhtubinsk (Astrakhan Oblast).
Academics
VolSU has 48 faculties and research centers, 22 four-year bachelor (Russian: бакалавр) degrees, 11 two-year master's (Russian: магистр) degrees, 42 Candidate of Sciences (Kandidat Nauk, equals PhD) postgraduate degrees, and 9 Doctors of Sciences (Doktor Nauk, equals Habilitation) degrees.
The university is attended by more than 14 thousand students and postgraduates. Established partnerships with the Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University, University of Cologne, University of Sorbonne, InHolland University (Netherlands) and other higher educational institutions of Russia, Europe and America.
Faculties and departments
History, International Relations and Social Technologies
Department of Archeology and Foreign History
Department of History of Russia
Department of International Relations, Area Studies and Political Science
Department of Sociology
Department of Psychology
Department of Political Science
Department of Social Work and Pedagogics
Mathematics and Information Technology
Department of Mathematical Analysis and Function Theory
Department of Fundamental Informatics and optimal control
Department of Computer Science and Experimental Mathematics
Department of Information Systems and Computer Modeling
Department of Laser Physics
Department of Radiophysics
Department of Theoretical Physics and Wave Processes
Priority Technologies
Department of Forensic and physical material
Department of Telecommunication Systems
Ranking
In 2015 VolSU was ranked among the best 150 schools of developing Europe and Central Asia according to Quacquarelli Symonds . In 2015 VolSU was ranked among top-20 best schools of Russia in the category "economics and management".