Bashkir State Pedagogical University named after M. Akmulla (BGPU)

About Bashkir State Pedagogical University named after M. Akmulla (BGPU)

Bashkir State Pedagogical University named after M. Akmulla (BSPU) is a federal state university in Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. Its official English name is Akmulla Bashkir State Pedagogical University. It is also known as Akmulla University (in Russian, Akmullinsky University). It was established by an order of the RSFSR Minister of Education on 18 January 1967 as the Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute. It was renamed a university in 2000. The founder is the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. The main address is 3-a Oktyabrskoy Revolyutsii Street, Ufa. The university has no branches. It is a different institution from Bashkir State Medical University, which is also in Ufa.

Institutes and research

The official structure page lists six institutes: Pedagogy; History, Law and Social-Humanitarian Education; Physics, Mathematics, Digital and Nanotechnologies; Physical Culture and Human Health; Philological Education and Intercultural Communications; and Continuing Professional Education "Vector of Development". It also lists the Natural-Geographic Faculty, the Faculty of Bashkir Philology, the Faculty of Psychology, the Art and Graphic Faculty and a university college. Research units include the Bashkir Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Education and the Research Institute of Education Development Strategy.

For international applicants

The Office of International Relations works with foreign applicants. It is at 8 Oktyabrskoy Revolyutsii Street, room 106, Ufa (email ums@bspu.ru). According to the admission site, foreign applicants submit documents through ruID, a mobile app linked to the Gosuslugi portal. The full set is uploaded in PDF format. It includes the passport and the education document, each with a translation. The translation into Russian must be certified by a Russian consular office abroad or by a notary in Russia. The university lists cooperation agreements with partners in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The university website is available in Russian, English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

Housing

The university reports seven dormitories in Ufa. They are on Sverdlova, Aksakova and Miasskaya streets, and one also has an address on Kommunisticheskaya Street. According to the university, the total area of the dormitories is 46,186 square metres, of which 24,302 square metres is living area.