For more than sixty years, the leading university in the region, KSU, has been supplying highly qualified personnel. Kostroma is the only city in Russia that trains specialists for the jewelry industry. The university is focused on the latest educational technologies, has a significant scientific potential, and has a good material base. Graduates of KSU (Kostroma) are in high demand in the country.
A word about the university
Today we can say with confidence that KSU Kostroma knows and loves well, because this university has been decorating the city since 1949, and the university and the region experience all the joys and anxieties together. It is from here that the bulk of applicants come to the walls of the university, it is the enterprises of the region that leave the largest and best part of the graduates.
In Kostroma, KSU is a highly respected university that can set the direction for the entire future path of the young generation. This is the way tosuccess, because education here is of exceptionally high quality and really in demand. Here, each student has the opportunity to develop all his brightest creative abilities in order to climb the career ladder as successfully as possible in the future. That is why almost always and for all speci alties there is a rather high competition for admission to Kostroma State University.
A reasoned choice
Today's applicants have a lot of options for choosing a higher education institution. However, Kostroma State University is one of the safest. And this can be confirmed by thousands and thousands of graduates who have become successful professionals, entrepreneurs, civil servants, scientists, engineers, teachers.
KSU named after Nekrasov (Kostroma) is a pivotal and multidisciplinary university. It has a long history and a powerful scientific potential, thanks to which there are huge opportunities for self-realization. This university is not only innovative, but also creative, with talented teachers who give all their knowledge to students, with a ready platform for the most dizzying experiments.
History
The actual date of foundation of the university is 1918, when the new state university was called Workers' and Peasants' University and was opened in memory of the October Socialist Revolution. Kostroma University was legalized in January 1919 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars, which was personally signed by V. I. Lenin. He began classes in November 1918 atthis educational institution is a world-famous scientist - E. M. Chepurkovsky.
And the rest of the teaching staff of all faculties of KSU in Kostroma was truly stellar. Professor F. A. Menkov read political economy, F. A. Petrovsky, B. A. Romanov, A. F. Izyumov, A. I. Nekrasov, V. F. Shishmarev and many other remarkable scientists read humanitarian subjects. It was here that one of the most famous Pushkinists S. M. Bondi and academician N. M. Druzhinin began their teaching activities. And that is not all! KSU students in Kostroma listened to brilliant lectures by Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, People's Commissar of Education, and Fyodor Kuzmich Sologub, a wonderful poet, an expert on new literature and the new theater.
Start
From the very beginning, there were only three faculties at the university - forestry, humanitarian and natural, a little later medical and pedagogical ones were opened. It was very difficult to teach students in those days, since everyone had the same access to education, and workers and peasants did not go through school programs. However, the enthusiasm was great. An educational association was opened with the Higher Folk School, where applicants received fairly in-depth training.
In 1919, the working faculty was opened, and he took over the preparation of students for academic education. By 1921, more than three thousand workers and peasants were studying at the Kostroma State University. Then, many new universities in the country went through a process of reorganization, including KSU. On its basis, two universities were created - agriculturaland pedagogical. And it was far from the last transformation.
Institute
Since 1939, this university existed and developed as a pedagogical institute, in 1946 it received the name of N. A. Nekrasov, since the anniversary of the Russian poet was widely celebrated in the country. In 1950, 1800 students studied at the correspondence and full-time departments, there were fifteen departments, where almost ninety teachers worked. Since 1960, the university has developed especially successfully. An art school was merged into KSPI in the form of an art and graphic faculty, then a department of foreign languages was opened, which by 1968 became a separate faculty.
By that time, Kostroma had increased the number of KGU corps. Back in 1964, building "A" appeared - a large educational building, which is located on 1 May Street. Construction was also carried out huge, in which almost the entire Kostroma participated. The KSU dormitory (850 places!) on Shchemilovka, the sports complex on Pyatnitskaya, new educational buildings - all this was built before the beginning of the 80s. Since the needs of the national economy changed over time, new speci alties were needed. KSU in Kostroma has always responded to such demand. New faculties were formed: music and pedagogy, labor and general technical disciplines, physical culture, methods and pedagogy of primary education.
University
Economic and social transformations in the nineties of the twentieth century were very large-scale. They also contributed to the development of KSU in Kostroma. Speci altyincreased to nineteen, faculties became thirteen. Most of the pedagogical traditions and heritage accumulated over many decades have been preserved. There were already twice as many students studying here, and KSU's pedagogical education was famous not only in its own region. The teaching staff has changed significantly in quantitative and qualitative terms: among the four hundred teachers there are more than one hundred and seventy candidates and doctors of sciences, associate professors and professors.
Back in the eighties, seventeen people were preparing for graduate school. In the nineties there were more than seventy. And the graduate school was already working in fourteen speci alties. Until 1994, four doctoral and thirty-five master's theses were defended. The certification of the university passed, and the institute became a pedagogical university - KSPU named after Nekrasov. Scientific and business relations were established with universities in Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, France, Poland and some other countries. And in 1999, the logical result of all this development was the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation on the status of a classical university with the name "KSU named after Nekrasov" (Kostroma).
Directions
Today, a team of scientists from KSU conducts innovative, exploratory, fundamental, applied, scientific and methodological research in all sciences present at the university. More and more noticeable is the development of scientific schools and university directions in education, Russian history, economic theory, intercultural communication, archeology, jurisprudence, literary criticism,social psychology, dialectology and phraseology, social work and social education, ecology, chemistry and many others.
Publishing activity is increasing, many scientific developments are being carried out, and therefore every year the rating of KSU among other Russian universities is getting higher. Publishing activity is also developing well, monographs, collections of scientific papers, textbooks and teaching aids, and many other types of methodological literature are published.
Publishing
The University has its own printed media - "Bulletin of KSU" and "Economics of Education", which are included in the List of periodic scientific and technical publications of the Russian Federation, where the results of dissertations are published. Applicants for the degree of candidate and doctor of science do not have to look for journals for publication for a long time. The entire series of the KSU Bulletin (and these are psychology, pedagogy, juvenology, social work, sociokinetics) is included in the scientific citation index of the Russian Federation.
Now postgraduate studies prepare candidates of sciences in twelve branches of science and thirty-nine speci alties, by 2011 nine speci alties in doctoral studies have already been opened. The magistracy of KSU (Kostroma) starts accepting documents on the twentieth of June and continues it until mid-August. Entrance examinations are held according to a convenient schedule, which can be found on the university website.
Submission of documents to the magistracy
The Admission Committee of KSU (Kostroma) is located at the address: Dzerzhinsky street, house 17,audience 115. Along with the application, the applicant must present documents that will confirm his identity and citizenship. In addition, the application must be accompanied by:
- original and photocopy of higher education document;
- photocopies of documents if the last name, first name or patronymic have changed;
- documents on the individual achievements of the applicant;
- when choosing areas of defectology, psychology and pedagogy, the original and a copy of a medical certificate of a special form are required;
- if you are supposed to check into a hostel, you must provide the results of a fluorographic study.
In 2017, 664 people (bachelor's and specialist's) became students of KSU on a budgetary basis, 290 people will study at the correspondence department, 209 people will study at the master's program. Applicants quite often use the opportunity to apply simultaneously for three areas of study and participate in three competitions, thus increasing the chances of successful admission to this university.
Preparatory Courses
For applicants at KSU there are preparatory courses with an intensive program that help not only pass the exam well, but also internal entrance tests. Preparation is carried out in the following subjects: chemistry, physics, Russian language, drawing, painting, social studies, mathematics, literature, history, computer science and ICT, foreign languages, biology.
It is supposed to issue at least one hundred academic hours for each discipline. Classes begin now, in November, and last until the end of April. it's oneday a week from 16.00 to 19.00, that is, four lessons of 45 minutes each. Applications are accepted directly at KSU (Kostroma). Address: Dzerzhinsky street, house 17, room 114. The cost of one item is 6 thousand rubles. Already at the end of October, free courses in informatics and ICT began to work.
Olympics
Today, every applicant knows that it is impossible to enter a good university (and KSU is a very good one) without having certain personal achievements that only a special Olympiad for high school students can give. Kostroma State University hosts just such, and it is called "Support of the Kostroma Territory".
Assignments this year were in thirteen areas, and all of them were prepared by the best teachers of the university. These are the humanities, mathematics, chemistry and physics. Coping with such tasks, high school students can demonstrate not only good theoretical knowledge, but also show creative abilities. As a result, every single participant receives three additional points to the exam. Prize-winners - five points each, and the winners of each direction - ten points at once to the results of the exam.
Unique laboratory
Recently, a laboratory was opened at KSU to train jewelers. About seventeen million rubles were spent on state-of-the-art equipment by the federal budget. For example, there is a 3D printer there, which can be used to create a three-dimensional model of any product, and similar equipment, even at Kostroma enterprises (and Kostroma has been famous for its jewelers since ancient times) yetno. It should be noted here that this speci alty is in high demand.
Kostroma region today processes up to fifty percent of all Russian gold and up to seventy percent of all Russian silver. It is rightfully considered the jewelry capital of the country: one and a half thousand jewelry enterprises and organizations operate in the region. Every tenth product is exported. Consumers are not only the CIS countries, but also Belgium. Switzerland, UAE, India, Hong Kong and many other countries. Up to eighty percent of export jewelry is made here, and therefore the demand for such specialists is huge.
Science Library and more
For many decades, the scientific library of KSU has been the main methodological center that coordinates the activities of all libraries located in professional educational institutions of the region. Seminars for librarians are held here, sections are constantly functioning that strengthen ties between the universities of the city and relate to library work.
In the park near the main building of KSU in 2009, a monument was erected to the great son of the Kostroma land - writer, publicist, philosopher, sociologist Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev, although he graduated not from KSU, but from MIFLI (MSU). Nevertheless, he was very closely connected with the university of his native land. Posthumously received the title of honorary citizen of the Kostroma region. Even after his cremation, he bequeathed to dispel the ashes "over his native Chukhloma". And in KSU there are a lot of followers of the famous logician andsociologist.
