Tula State University
| Тульский государственный университет | |
One of TSU buildings
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| Motto | Из класса — в высший класс! (From a class to the highest class!) |
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| Established | 1930 |
| Rector | Mikhail Gryazev |
| Students | 20,000 |
| Location |
Tula, Tula Oblast, Russia 54°10′01″N 37°35′11″E / 54.16694°N 37.58639°ECoordinates: 54°10′01″N 37°35′11″E / 54.16694°N 37.58639°E |
Tula State University (TSU) (Russian: Ту́льский госуда́рственный университе́т, ТулГУ) is the biggest state university in Tula, Central Russia. Since May 2006 its rector is Mikhail Gryazev, professor, doctor of technical sciences. More than 20,000 students, 400 post graduates, and 600 foreign students from 30 countries study at Tula State University. The university consists of nine faculties (colleges), a medical institute, a center of pre-university studies, a regional center for professional development, and 73 departments (chairs).
TSU has more than 150 study programs in defense, technology, mining construction, computer science, economics, law, humanities and medicine. There are more than 1,200 faculty members, among them 278 full doctors of sciences, professors and 742 candidates of sciences, associate professors. The total number of university staff is 2,400.
TSU provides full-time and part-time education, distance education and education by correspondence.
The university trains mathematicians, mechanics, physicists, chemists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, theologians, linguists, translators, lawyers, sociologists, physicians, specialists in physical culture and sports, designers and design engineers, economists, managers, architects, and educationists.
The Regional Center for Professional Development and Retraining of Administrative Workers and Specialists at Tula State University has more than 2,400 students.
The university scientific library contains more than 1.5 million books. There are several reading halls, an Internet-room, a digital library. A laboratory of computer technologies has started. e-book and virtual laboratory projects have been created by the faculty members and students of the university.
In 2005 the university was awarded the Certificate of Honor by the President of the Russian Federation for its contribution to the education of specialists and the development of science. In 2007 TSU received the RF Government Award for Education. The university staff headed by rector Mikhail Gryazev received a State Award for the project called Regional University Educational and Pedagogical Complex of Innovative Educational Technologies Used in Training Specialists for High-technological Production in Defense Industry. Alexander Agubechirovich Khadartsev, the director of the Medical Institute, received a State Award for the scientific research called The Use of Neuron Network Technologies in Educational Process.
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