Orenburg State University (OSU) is the pride of the Orenburg region. This is a dynamically developing multidisciplinary higher educational institution that has existed for more than half a century and trains highly qualified specialists for the region and other regions of our country. Many applicants choose this university. According to available statistics, more than 45% of the region's students study at OSU.
History of the university
OSU opened in 1955. However, at first the educational institution did not have the status of a university. It was just an evening department of the Kuibyshev Industrial Institute, functioning in Chkalov (the former name of Orenburg). The first changes in the history of the educational institution took place in 1961 - it was decided to reorganize the evening department into a branch.
The university gained its independence a little later - in 1971. He becameOrenburg Polytechnic Institute. In 1996, the educational institution increased the list of offered speci alties. The institute began to graduate not only engineers and acquired the status of a classical one, it was renamed the Orenburg State University. Under this name, the university continues to function at the present time.
Educational buildings
Each applicant wants to get into a university where studying is not only interesting, but also comfortable. OGU just meets this requirement. There are 21 educational buildings at the disposal of students. All buildings are equipped in accordance with modern requirements. The educational buildings are equipped with lecture halls, computer classes, 190 multimedia projectors. Educational and laboratory equipment is purchased annually.
Educational buildings are located in different parts of the city. Applicants do not need to know the location of all buildings, because only one of them has an admission committee of Orenburg State University. The address of this building: 13, Pobedy Ave. It is here that documents are accepted annually.
Prestigious and popular faculties
One of the leading divisions of OSU is the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering. It offers such areas as "Architecture", "Design", "Design of the architectural environment", "Urban planning", "Construction", "Land management and cadastres". The faculty is renowned for its high qualityeducation, which is confirmed by information about graduates. Among the people who have received knowledge and a diploma here, there are leaders of construction, road, design organizations, successful designers.
Prestigious and popular, but at the same time a young structural unit of the university - the Faculty of Economics and Management. He began his educational activities in 2004. The faculty offers a variety of areas for the preparation of bachelors: "Applied Mathematics", "Applied Informatics", "Economics", "Management", "Commodity Science", "Trade", "Business Informatics". In the structural unit, the life of students is not limited to classes. Students regularly participate in forums, seminars, television programs dedicated to topical economic issues.
Other faculties of Orenburg State University
The structure of the university includes not only the considered units. It also includes the following faculties:
- geological and geographical (bachelor's degree programs - "Geography", "Ecology and nature management", "Technospheric safety", speci alty program - "Applied geology");
- transport (examples of areas - "Metrology and standardization", "Quality management", "Operation of transport and technological complexes and machines");
- legal
Also in the walls of the universityapplicants are invited by the faculties of mathematics and information technology, social sciences and humanities, applied biotechnology and engineering, philology and journalism, as well as the faculties of physics, finance and economics, chemistry and biology and electrical energy.
Distance learning unit
A special place in the organizational structure of FSBEI HPE "Orenburg State University" is occupied by the Faculty of Distance Educational Technologies. The period of its existence is not too long, but during this time it was able to win numerous positive reviews.
The Faculty of Distance Educational Technologies is primarily interesting because it offers a flexible study schedule. Each student independently draws up a plan for studying disciplines, performs all the necessary tasks at the most convenient time using the Internet. Another important advantage of the faculty is the reasonable cost of education.
Institutions in the structure of an educational institution
In addition to faculties, there are institutes at the Orenburg State University. There are only 2 of them - the Aerospace Institute and the Institute of Management. The first of them has been officially operating since 1998, but in fact it originated much earlier. It happened in 1961, when the mechanical faculty of evening education was organized. The structural subdivision began its activities with training in the speci alty "Technology of mechanical engineering, cutting, machine tools and tools." Todaythe list of areas of study includes:
- Mechanical Engineering.
- "Automation of production and technological processes."
- "Innovation".
- "Aircraft".
- "Cosmonautics and rocket systems".
- Robotics and mechatronics, etc.
The Institute of Management is the youngest structural unit at the Orenburg State University, organized on February 1, 2016. During the creation of the institute, a highly qualified teaching staff of 8 doctors and 43 candidates of sciences was formed. Curricula were also developed in such areas of training as "Management", "Personnel Management", "Customs", "Municipal and State Administration", "Service", "Tourism".
University branches
Educational activities of OSU are carried out not only in Orenburg, where the head university is located. In parallel, it is being conducted in three cities where branches of the Orenburg State University are located:
- In Orsk. More than 3,000 students study here, who are trained to work at engineering and metallurgy enterprises, in the system of general and vocational education.
- In Buzuluk. The branch is a small educational institution of the city. The number of students is about 2 thousand people. The directions offered here are related to biological sciences, engineering and technology of construction and land transport, economics and management,jurisprudence, education and pedagogical sciences.
- In Kumertau. About 2,000 students study at the branch. There are not so many suggested directions here. Training on them allows graduates to work in the future in housing and communal services, in construction, transport, and energy supply enterprises.
In conclusion, it is worth noting that the Orenburg State University in Orenburg was originally a polytechnic institute. However, the university decided not to stop at this status, because the employees understood that the region needed not only engineers. From a polytechnic institute, the educational institution was transformed into a multidisciplinary university. The list of training areas has expanded, but the university decided not to forget about its past profile. It is for this reason that today OSU continues to increase engineering speci alties.
