Ulyanovsk State University (UlSU)

About Ulyanovsk State University (UlSU)

Ulyanovsk State University (USU, in Russian UlGU, also written UlSU) is a federal state university in Ulyanovsk. It was founded in 1988 as a branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University and received the status of an independent university in 1996. The founder is the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The main address is 42 Lva Tolstogo Street, Ulyanovsk, 432017. The university also has an Inza branch. It is a different institution from Ulyanovsk State University of Education (the pedagogical university) and Ulyanovsk State Technical University.

Institutes and research

The university structure includes the Institute of Medicine, Ecology and Physical Culture and the Institute of Economics and Business. Its faculties include the Medical Faculty named after T. Z. Biktimirov, the Engineering Physics Faculty of High Technologies, Mathematics, Information and Aviation Technologies, Humanities and Social Technologies, Linguistics, Intercultural Communication and Professional Communication, Culture and Arts, Law, and Transfer Specialties. There is also a Medical College named after A. L. Polenov and the Kapitsa Research Institute of Technology. The university has a Priority 2030 page with its development programmes.

Students

The university's English "About" page (undated, apparently written around 2020) says USU has more than 13,000 students, including more than 7,000 full-time students. The English international page says about 2,490 foreign citizens from 41 countries are studying there. Forms of study include full-time, part-time (evening) and distance learning.

For international applicants

The university has taught foreign students since 1991. The first group was 12 citizens of India at the medical faculty. The Centre for Work with International Students handles the admission of foreign citizens (e-mail cie@ulsu.ru). Foreign students study in humanities, natural science, biomedical, technical and economic programmes. The Preparatory Department is part of the Centre of Russian Language and Culture. It teaches Russian to the level needed for study in Russian, and it corrects subject knowledge. Its profiles are humanitarian, physics and mathematics, chemistry and biology, technical, and social and economic.

Housing

According to the university's mandatory disclosure page, USU has four dormitories with 1,893 places. The admissions website gives their addresses: 3 and 9 Vodoprovodnaya Street, 31a Ablukova Street and 152 Naberezhnaya Reki Sviyagi.