Siberian State University of Railway Engineering

About Siberian State University of Railway Engineering

Siberian Transport University (STU) is the name that the university's English site uses for SGUPS, in Russian Sibirskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet putey soobshcheniya. The English admission page also calls it Siberian State Transport University. It is a federal state budgetary university in Novosibirsk. It was founded in 1932 as the Novosibirsk Track-Construction Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, on the basis of the track-construction faculty of the Siberian Institute of Transport Engineers in Tomsk. The founder is the Federal Agency for Railway Transport (Roszheldor). The main address is 191 Dusi Kovalchuk Street, Novosibirsk, 630049.

Institutes and research

The university lists ten faculties: Transport Construction (Railway Construction); Management of Transport and Technological Complexes; Bridges and Tunnels; Management of Transportation Processes in Railway Transport; Industrial and Civil Construction; Engineering and Economics; World Economy and Law; Public Administration and Social Communications; Business Informatics; and an extramural faculty.

According to the university, it teaches 60 higher-education programmes, including four specialist fields, 14 bachelor fields and 10 master fields. It has agreements with Beijing Jiaotong University and Binhai University in Qingdao, China, including double-diploma programmes.

Students

According to the university, more than 6,700 students, postgraduates and listeners study at SGUPS. From 2001 to 2022, it graduated more than 300 citizens of other countries, including more than 80 from far-abroad countries: North Korea, South Korea, China and Mongolia.

For international applicants

SGUPS teaches foreign citizens on bachelor's, specialist's, master's and postgraduate programmes. Before faculty study, foreign students can take a preparatory programme, Russian as a foreign language. It lasts from one to two years, depending on the starting level. Applicants from CIS countries are admitted on the same basis as Russian applicants and pay the same as Russian citizens. The international relations office answers questions at inter_sgups@stu.ru.

Housing

The student campus includes four dormitories. Dormitory No. 1, at 187 Dusi Kovalchuk Street, has four blocks and 1,119 places. The university states that foreign students from far-abroad countries are placed in two-bed rooms.