Kazan State Power Engineering University

About Kazan State Power Engineering University

Kazan State Power Engineering University, known as KGEU (КГЭУ) in Russian and KSPEU in English, is a state university in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan. It began as the Kazan branch of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, opened on 18 July 1968. In 1999 the branch became the Kazan Power Engineering Institute, and on 18 October 2000 it received university status. The founder is the Russian Federation, represented by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The main address is 51 Krasnoselskaya Street, Kazan. The university has no branches. It is a different institution from Kazan Federal University.

Institutes and research

On its English website the university describes itself as one of three state specialised power engineering universities in Russia, together with Moscow Power Engineering Institute and Ivanovo State Power Engineering University. Its institutes are the Institute of Nuclear and Thermal Power Engineering, the Institute of Electric Power Engineering and Electronics, the Institute of Digital Technologies and Economics, and the Institute of Additional Professional Education. A project institute and a Research Institute of power engineering problems also work at the university. In 2021 KSPEU won a grant under the federal programme "Priority 2030".

For international applicants

KSPEU has a pre-university department for foreign citizens. A preparatory faculty, then called "Rabfak", opened as early as 1969. The International Affairs Department is in building V, room V-300, at the main address. According to the university, foreign citizens who apply for fee-paying or budget-funded places take entrance tests. Applications for places under the Russian state quota are submitted through the official Ministry of Science and Higher Education portal. The admissions committee has its own website, postupi.kgeu.ru. Check the official pages for the current programme list and language of instruction.

Housing

According to the university's mandatory disclosure, KSPEU has 4 dormitories with 1,608 living rooms (residential premises) for students from other cities. According to the history page of its English website, the first purpose-built student hostel (534 places) was completed in 1982.