Bryansk State Technical University

About Bryansk State Technical University

Bryansk State Technical University (BSTU, in Russian BGTU) is a federal state university in Bryansk. The university gives 29 November 1929 as its date of creation. It started as the Bezhitsa Machine-Building Institute. Its later names include the Ordzhonikidzegrad Machine-Building Institute (1936-1944) and the Bryansk Institute of Transport Machine-Building (1956-1980). It has been called Bryansk State Technical University since 1995. The founder is the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education carries out the founder's functions. The address is 7 Bulvar 50 Let Oktyabrya, Bryansk 241035. Bryansk has another state university, Bryansk State University named after Academician I.G. Petrovsky. It is a different institution with its own website.

Institutes and research

The university includes the Educational-Scientific Technological Institute, the Educational-Scientific Institute of Transport, and faculties of information technology, energy and electronics, mechanical technology, and industry and digital economy. It also has a polytechnic college and a representative office in Novozybkov. The university lists no branches. Its own description of research infrastructure includes two engineering centres, two educational design centres and five research laboratories. The page reports four dissertation councils at the start of 2025.

Students

The university's page for the 2024/2025 academic year reports more than 7,700 students: more than 1,000 in secondary vocational programmes at the polytechnic college and about 6,700 in higher education. It reports about 300 teachers, including more than 40 doctors of sciences and more than 160 candidates of sciences. It offers 33 bachelor's directions, 5 specialist's programmes and 23 master's directions.

For international applicants

According to the same page, about 500 international students study in higher-education programmes at BSTU. They come from 20 countries, including African countries, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus. The university organises Russian language courses for international students. A Centre for International Cooperation handles the university's international links, exchanges and information about foreign internships and grants. One listed partner is the Belarusian-Russian University in Mogilev, Belarus.

Housing

According to the university's disclosure page, it has five dormitories with 450 residential units for non-resident students.