Vladimir State University named after A.G. and N.G. Stoletovs

About Vladimir State University named after A.G. and N.G. Stoletovs

Vladimir State University named after Alexander Grigorievich and Nikolay Grigorievich Stoletovs, known as VlSU (ВлГУ) or Vladimir State University, is a state university in the city of Vladimir. It was created on 1 August 1958. The founder is the Russian Federation, represented by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The main address is 87 Gorkogo Street, Vladimir. The university also has a branch, the Murom Institute, in the city of Murom.

Institutes and research

VlSU began as a branch of the Moscow Evening Machine-Building Institute. It became the Vladimir Polytechnic Institute in 1964, the Vladimir State Technical University in 1993 and Vladimir State University in 1996. The name with the Stoletov brothers dates from 2008. In 2011 the Vladimir State University for the Humanities, an older teacher-training institution, joined VlSU as a structural unit. The university history page says that after the merger VlSU "became one of the largest universities in the Central Federal District".

Its structure includes institutes of mechanical engineering and automobile transport; information technologies and electronics; architecture, construction and power engineering; natural sciences; economics and tourism; physical culture, sport and choreography; electronic education; a law institute; a pedagogical institute; an institute for the humanities; and a Higher School of Music and Theatre.

For international applicants

The university structure lists a unit that combines the Faculty of Pre-university Training, a college and the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language. The university website also lists a testing centre for foreign citizens. VlSU has cooperation agreements with foreign universities, for example with Baku State University. Applicants should check the current admission rules, language of instruction and programme list on the official admission pages.

Housing

The student campus was created in 1981. Today it is a complex of 11 dormitories: four five-storey buildings with corridor-type rooms and seven nine-storey buildings with block-type rooms. According to the campus page of the university, more than 4,500 full-time students live there, including more than 400 international students from 52 countries. The admissions site gives a different, smaller figure of about 1,500 dormitory places for first-year students, so check the current number of places with the admissions committee.