Belgorod State National Research University

About Belgorod State National Research University

Belgorod State National Research University (BelSU; in Russian НИУ «БелГУ») is a federal state autonomous university in Belgorod, Russia. Its English site also uses the names Belgorod State University and BSU. The university traces its origin to the Belgorod Teachers' Institute, opened on 26 September 1876. It received its current form in 2011, when the type of the former Belgorod State University was changed by an order of the Ministry of Education and Science. The main address is 85 Pobedy Street, Belgorod. BelSU is a different institution from the Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov (БГТУ им. В.Г. Шухова).

Institutes and research

According to the university's English page, BelSU has 10 institutes, 2 colleges, a preparatory faculty and a branch in Stary Oskol. The university's structure page lists institutes that include law, pedagogy, medicine, intercultural communication and international relations, earth sciences, economics and management, social sciences and mass communications, pharmacy, chemistry and biology, and engineering and digital technologies. It also lists faculties of physical culture, history and philology, foreign languages and psychology. The English page reports 62 research centres and laboratories, 8 officially registered scientific schools and 22 academic buildings.

For international applicants

The English site has a preparatory (foundation) programme with a Russian-language major in medicine and biology, engineering, economics, humanities or natural sciences. It lasts a full year or one and a half years. The "Degree programs in English" page lists General Medicine (code 31.05.01, 6 years, Medical Institute) and Pharmacy (code 33.05.01, 5 years, Institute of Pharmacy, Chemistry and Biology).

The university says it has 33 joint educational projects with universities in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, 28 of them with double degrees. It also reports more than 110 cooperation agreements with foreign organisations from 27 countries.

International applicants can write to the International Office at Inter@bsuedu.ru. The office is in Room 8-4, Building 12, 85 Pobedy Street. The English admission section also covers bachelor's, specialist, master's and postgraduate study, required documents, and application dates.

Housing

The university reports 8 student dormitories with a capacity of 4,751 beds. Its English site says foreign students are housed in halls of residence, and that the main campus is close to the town centre.