Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev – KAI

KNRTU-KAI (Tupolev KAI), the former Kazan Aviation Institute, is a national research technical university in Kazan, Russia, founded in 1932.

About Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev – KAI

Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev – KAI (KNRTU-KAI, in Russian KNITU-KAI) is a federal state technical university in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan. It is also known as KAI or Tupolev KAI. It was created on 5 March 1932 as the Kazan Aviation Institute, from the aerodynamics department of Kazan State University. In 1973 it was named after the aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev. In 1992 it became Kazan State Technical University. In 2009 it won the selection for the "National Research University" project and took its current name. The founder is the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia. The main address is 10 Karl Marx Street, Kazan 420111. KAI is a different institution from Kazan National Research Technological University (KNITU, kstu.ru), also in Kazan.

Institutes and research

According to the structure page, engineering study in Kazan at KAI is organised in institutes of Aviation, Land Transport and Energy; Automation and Electronic Instrument Engineering; Computer Technologies and Information Security; Radio Electronics, Photonics and Digital Technologies; Engineering Economics and Entrepreneurship; Physics, Mathematics and Advanced Technologies; and Aviation Equipment and Technologies. It also lists the Advanced Engineering School "Complex Aviation Engineering", two vocational colleges and a research institute. According to the university history, in 1941-1943 the KAI aerodynamic laboratory was the only one operating in the country. KAI has branches in Almetyevsk, Leninogorsk, Naberezhnye Chelny and Chistopol.

For international applicants

Most programmes are taught in Russian. The International Preparatory Department teaches only Russian in the first semester; in the second, students add subjects in one of three profiles: engineering, economics or medicine and biology. Study lasts from 6 months to 1.5 years, applications are accepted all year, and a certificate is issued after the full course. The department teaches citizens of CIS countries, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Vietnam and other countries. The Department of International Activities is at 18a Chetaeva Street, Kazan (email int.student@kai.ru). Agreements on joint programmes with Chinese universities include a bachelor's in Helicopter Engineering with Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a bachelor's in Aircraft Engines with Northwestern Polytechnical University.

Housing

The disclosure page reports eight dormitories with 3,888 places, 208 of them in Dormitory No. 4, which that page marks as under major repair. The international office page lists seven dormitories, Nos. 1 to 7. To get a place, students submit an application endorsed by the international office and their institute, then sign a tenancy contract with the student campus office.

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