Vyatka State University

About Vyatka State University

Vyatka State University, known as VyatSU (ВятГУ), is a federal state university in the city of Kirov. The university gives 13 March 1963 as its birthday, when the structure of the Kirov Correspondence Polytechnic Institute was approved. The founder is the Russian Federation, represented by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The main address is 36 Moskovskaya Street, Kirov. The university has no branches. It is a different institution from Vyatka State Agrotechnological University (Вятский ГАТУ) and from Kirov State Medical University, which are also in Kirov.

Institutes and research

The institution was the Kirov Polytechnic Institute until 1994, then Vyatka State Technical University, and received its current name in 2001. The Vyatka State University of Humanities, a former pedagogical university, joined it after a reorganisation order of 2015. In 2016 the university was named one of 11 supporting universities of the Russian Federation, and in 2021 it passed selection for the "Priority 2030" programme.

According to the university, it has 13 faculties and 8 institutes. The institutes include biology and biotechnology, mathematics and information systems, chemistry and ecology, economics and management, a pedagogical institute, a polytechnic institute and a law institute. Faculties include linguistics, construction and architecture, electrical engineering, physical culture and sport, and international education. The university also has its own college.

Students

The university website states that more than 19,000 students from 22 countries and 36 regions of Russia study at VyatSU. It lists 23 teaching buildings, 75 departments and more than 1,000 teachers.

For international applicants

The university structure includes a Faculty of International Education and a preparatory department, both based at 26 Krasnoarmeyskaya Street in Kirov. The university has cooperation agreements with foreign universities, for example in Belarus, China, India and Tajikistan. Check the official admission pages for the current language of instruction, programme list and application steps.

Housing

According to the university's mandatory disclosure, VyatSU has 8 dormitories with 3,382 places, and meals are available in them.