Vologda State Dairy Academy named after N.V. Vereshchagin

About Vologda State Dairy Academy named after N.V. Vereshchagin

Vologda State Dairy Farming Academy named after N.V. Vereshchagin (Vologda SDFA, in Russian Vologodskaya GMKhA) is a federal state budgetary university in Molochnoe settlement, 16 km from the city of Vologda. The founder is the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. The law on establishing the Vologda dairy farming institute was signed on 3 June 1911. The institute received the status of an academy in 1995 and the name of N.V. Vereshchagin the same year. The main address is 2 Shmidta Street, Molochnoe, Vologda, 160555. The academy describes itself as "the oldest higher educational institution in the North-West of Russia".

Institutes and research

The academy has six faculties: Agronomy and Forestry; Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies; Engineering; Technological; Economics; and Advanced Training and Retraining. It also has a technological college. The academy has no branches, but it has representative offices in Arkhangelsk and Kirov.

According to the academy, it has 7 educational buildings and 4 educational-laboratory buildings with a total area of 36,500 square metres. Its library holds more than 450,000 books.

Students

According to the academy's English site, about 3,700 students study there. The staff numbers 248 people, including 93 higher-education teaching staff.

For international applicants

Foreign citizens may apply for any degree programme. All programmes are taught in Russian. Applicants need a certificate of completed secondary or higher education with a transcript, and a certified translation into Russian. The documents must be legalised. Applicants e-mail copies of their documents first. The academy then sends an application form. Entrance examinations are taken at the academy.

The academy also runs a preparatory course for foreign citizens. It is taught in Russian and lasts 12 months (2,160 academic hours). Its profiles are natural-science, engineering-technical and economic.

Housing

The academy has four dormitories with double, triple and four-bed rooms. Shower and kitchen are shared on each floor or unit. Each dormitory has a laundry, a gym and a study room. A dormitory place is available to students of the preparatory course.