Any university owes its history and glory to those who taught and studied there, and that is how SPbSPU created its history. Reviews speak of the Nobel Prize winners P. L. Kapitsa, N. N. Semyonov, Zh. I. Alferov, Academicians A. F. Ioffe, I. V. Kurchatov, A. A. Radtsig, Yu. about the general designer O. K. Antonov and many, many other talented people of their time. There are hundreds of them - brilliant scientists and production organizers, people whose activities were closely connected with the Polytechnic University of the Northern Capital. It is thanks to the graduates and teachers of the strongest universities that the country was able to saturate its production facilities with highly qualified specialists, who determined the development of our science and technology. SPbSPU also made a huge contribution to this. Reviews note the exceptionally high quality of education at all times of the university's activity.
Polytechnic
The Museum of History and Technology of St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University can tell a lot about the beginning of the activities of this educational institution. Visitor reviews speak of unforgettable experiences and a huge amount of new and interesting information received here. And this is not surprising, since, as a historical and technical museum, this museum is the largest of the universities. There are more than forty-five thousand exhibits in the main fund alone. Is there a person who will not be interested in machines, mechanisms, devices from the nineteenth century? And how many models and unique objects of technology and equipment of a century and a half! But the most interesting thing awaits the visitor where the materials about the most important events in the life of SPbSPU are located. Reviews with great gratitude speak of photographic documents that take the viewer to times distant from us. Also interesting are the materials from which it is clear how huge the contribution of the university to the development of domestic science, to its defense capability.
The whole exposition is dedicated to student construction teams. Where they just have not been, what awards they have not received! Here is the grain of the first harvest on the virgin lands, which the students brought with them in 1957, and much, much more - the whole history of the country was made with the participation of the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University. The connection between generations is strong and close, and this is the key to multiplying achievements and preserving the best traditions. For almost one hundred and twenty years of its existence, the SPbSPU of Peter the Great, like the apple of its eye, keeps all the information about the activities of its predecessors andcontemporaries. The student military-historical club, which lovingly bears the name "Our Polytech", helps a lot in this. It was its participants who created the "Book of Memory" in the electronic version, which refers to all the "polytechnics" who died in the Great Patriotic War, and the diaries of besieged Leningrad. The Museum of Military Glory has also been created here, where every Saturday meetings of members of the club "Our Polytechnic" of St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University are held.
Rector
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rector of the University Professor A. I. Rudskoy, in his addresses to students and teachers, always says that the main direction of the university was, is and will be the training of highly qualified engineers for the domestic industry, although, of course, since 1899 its content has changed radically. The world is also changing rapidly, and the quality of education must keep pace with this process. A new economy is being formed in the country, where knowledge, leadership and innovation dominate, education, industry and science are being integrated, and Peter the Great St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University (SPbSPU) should not stand aside when the results of such integration are formed.
And first of all, we need a new competitive product that will be in demand on the world market, only it will be able to raise Russia to its rightful place in the global economic system. The entire higher school of the country supplies highly qualified personnel, is a source of innovative developments and new technologies. Your contributionSPbSPU - St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University also contributes to this process. The forces of a multi-thousand team are now focused on modernization, development of a new type of university, which allows it to remain a leader in multidisciplinary research, science-intensive innovations, and world-class supra-industry technologies. Students continue to receive elite professional education in order to bring the most interesting and important events into the life around them.
Applied Baccalaureate
The SPbSPU teachers perform their task excellently. They train top-level specialists who are able to work on the most important production lines and combine entrepreneurial, design and research activities. Educational services are of high quality, the education system has been radically reorganized. Modern international education programs in English and Russian have been developed and implemented, they are being implemented with the assistance of the world's leading universities. Implementation of practice-oriented programs continues. This is an applied bachelor's degree, which includes interdisciplinary project work carried out by students on the basis of CDIO. Industrial and technological partners are involved in the educational process.
Applied baccalaureate gives the graduate a SPbSPU diploma with a speci alty that is extremely in demand, since the graduate has such a set of knowledge, skills and abilities that he can work in the most critical areas without internships. ATThe university is implementing the idea of creating such a training system that will ensure the professional viability of a specialist of a new formation, since he is able to solve the production problems of our time, which allows him to easily adapt in the economic sector. That is why it is so difficult to enter SPbSPU. The passing scores are very high, the university is prestigious and is highly rated among applicants. The happy owners of the first student ID are immersed in their studies right away, because it is quite difficult not only to enter, but also to study in the most complex programs.
Tasks
Among the main tasks that the university sets itself, the main one is to give as many opportunities as possible for self-realization in practical activities to each student. It is for this purpose that an effective system of international partnerships in educational programs has been created, and a number of the best foreign universities provide a graduate of SPbSPU with a diploma from a foreign partner university along with a diploma from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.
The main task is to create and increase human capital in order to ensure the sustainable development of the native country and its economic prosperity. Today, a new image of the Polytechnic has been formed - it is a university of the twenty-first century. Many positive changes have taken place here in recent years, but many years of history, continuity of traditions, and scientific schools have been preserved. That is why it is somodern results and achievements in scientific, innovative and educational activities. University students have already become the world's educational elite.
The restructuring of educational, scientific and structural policies has not yet been completed, but, focusing on the priorities of the "5-100-2020" program, SPbSPU is ready in the very near future to take the position of a high-tech testing ground for Russian industry, as well as to reach the world level on technological competencies. The state policy in higher education is carried out here with maximum responsibility, since its main direction is the creation of a new economy, which is one of the priorities of the university. This is the economy of innovation. The key link is the engineering staff, who have the most advanced technologies, they are able to solve the latest complex problems related to industry, and are ready to take the country to a higher level of development.
Strategy
The innovative knowledge economy and its technological needs require a new generation of engineering and technical personnel with the widest range of competencies. SPbSPU, admission to which is the result of many years of hard work for each applicant, sets itself a special task - to prepare a real specialist with global and systemic thinking, who has not only special, but also transnational knowledge, skills, abilities, who is ready to study all his life, to increase knowledge, to improve oneself. Since St. PetersburgPeter the Great Polytechnic University - the largest technical university in the country, where the strongest scientific schools have historically developed, where there are undeniable achievements and results in educational, scientific, and innovative activities - it can do it.
The University has set itself the goal - to stand on the same level with the leaders of world higher education, to enter the top 100 technical universities in the world by 2020. And the basis for such determination is the focus on global trends in research, technology, development, and education. The strategic goal is modernization for the development of the university as a competitive global scientific and educational center, where multidisciplinary research in the field of science and world-class technology is integrated. SPbSPU should be among the first world universities. Today the ranking of the Polytechnic among world universities is 548 out of 1000, it ranks 14th in Russia and 2nd in the Leningrad region. Despite the long and rich history, all the main achievements of SPbSPU lie ahead. Passing scores are quite high, they change from year to year and differ from each other by faculty, and in 2016 the average passing score for the USE was from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty-nine in three subjects. Applicants love this university and strive to enter there, although the competition is very high.
How it started
In 1899, the Polytechnic Institute in St. Petersburg was founded on behalf of the Minister of Finance S. Yu. Witte, immediatelyreceived the name of Tsar Peter the Great, which he still bears with honor. Like-minded people of the minister, including D. I. Mendeleev, who became an honorary member of the institute, were also involved in organizing the new educational institution. His portrait has been adorned in the Council Hall for more than a hundred years. Classes at the electromechanical, economic, shipbuilding and metallurgical departments began in 1902. These branches of technology at that time were the most advanced and promising. In 1907, new faculties were opened - chemical, mechanical, civil engineering, and in 1909 aeronautics courses appeared - the first domestic aviation school. In 1914, six thousand students studied at all departments of the institute (now - 30,197).
Buildings for the institute were erected under the vigilant guidance of a special construction commission, which was created from the very beginning - in 1899. Construction was carried out on the outskirts, near the village of Sosnovka, the design and construction was carried out by the architectural workshop of E. F. Virrich.
A whole complex of buildings was designed - a campus very similar to Oxford and Cambridge: the main building, two dormitories, chemical and mechanical buildings. In 1902, construction was completed. It turned out beautifully: the main building in the neoclassical style looks very St. Petersburg - both in configuration and in the prevailing color. The interior layout is very well thought out - classroom windows, all facing southwest, allow maximum use of natural daylight.
Library
The Fundamental University Library opened in 1902. She was very rich initially, and gradually new wonderful collections of books poured into her from S. Yu. Witte himself, from professors - P. B. Struve, A. P. Van der Fleet, Yu. P. Boklevsky, B. E. Nolde and many others. And now the composition of the library collections is unique.
It is not determined only by the disciplines that are studied within the walls of the university, there is a huge amount of special literature on the exact, natural, technical, applied sciences, and there are also large sections of the humanities - books on history, law, economics, finance It's simply impossible to list everything. A lot of things were donated from scientists who worked at the university.
Structure
Books come in handy in a variety of ways, since the university trains students in 208 different profiles, bachelors are prepared in 57 areas, there are thirteen specializations, 216 master's programs and 55 areas in which masters are being prepared. In 2014, the training of scientific and pedagogical personnel began in 25 areas of postgraduate study and in 94 speci alties of postgraduate education of scientific personnel.
There are thirteen institutes with subdivisions of additional education, a large complex of research institutions, including scientific and educational centers, a scientific and technological institute, scientific and production structures. The university also has branches - in Cherepovets, Sosnovy Bor, Cheboksary. Now there are thirty educational andproduction buildings, fifteen dormitories, ten residential buildings, as well as the House of Scientists and a wonderful sports complex.
Last decades
In 1989, it was decided to rename the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, and it became known as the State Polytechnic University. In 1990, this decision was approved. In 1994, a publishing printing center was formed at the university, now the Polytechnic University Publishing House.
Today, the university has a powerful printing base and operates under state licenses for publishing. The founder of the university is the Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation. The teachers here have always been the most stellar. And now students are taught by twenty-five academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences, more than five hundred professors. It is not in vain that the university has repeatedly been ranked among the top five technical higher educational institutions in the country, in 2010 it became the National Research University, and in 2013 - the winner of the competition of leading universities in Russia.
For applicants, all the information is on the SPbSPU website: entrance exams, the number of passing marks in the Unified State Examination over the past years, the necessary documents for submission to the admissions committee - all this can be found there. But there is another way out. You just need to find the time and visit SPbSPU in person. Address: St. Petersburg, Politekhnicheskaya street, 29. It is in honor of the university that the metro station was named Politekhnicheskaya, just like the street where this university is located. Applicants are waiting for information in the selection committee on weekdaysdays from 9.00 to 18.00. The phone can be found on the official website of the educational institution.
And here are the data that are unlikely to change by the next admission campaign of SPbSPU: the number of state-funded places - 2925, paid more - 8663. As far as one can judge, having considered the conditions of study in other universities, here it is expensive, but not too much. Depending on the chosen speci alty at St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, the cost of education starts from 68 thousand rubles a year. In MEPhI, for example, there are speci alties for 45 thousand, but here there are none. For comparison - in Moscow State University in some speci alties, the annual payment goes far beyond three hundred thousand.
Student life
Very purposeful and energetic people study at SPbSPU! A scholarship can always support talents, motivating them to new sports, scientific or cultural feats. Some students receive a scholarship that can be compared with earnings in a small firm. Even talented applicants are encouraged, literally from the first steps of a student, they receive an amount that not every adult earns.
But for this you need to win or become a prize-winner of the final stages of the All-Russian Olympiads for schoolchildren, or take part in an international Olympiad as a member of a national team, or get 290 or more points in the Unified State Examination. These are the people who will receive a monthly increased scholarship of twenty thousand rubles.
