The Peoples 'Friendship University of Russia was established during the reign of N. Khrushchev, in 1960, as the Peoples' Friendship University. At the same time, teaching of one of the main subjects, the Russian language for foreigners, began. A year later, the institution was named P. Lumumba, who was a prominent fighter for the independence of African countries at that time, and opened six main faculties, including physical and mathematical sciences, law and economics, medicine, engineering, agricultural, historical and philological .
The founder of PFUR is the Government of Russia
In 1992, by decision of the Government of the Russian Federation, which is the founder of this educational institution, UDN received a new name - Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. In the 90s, promising new faculties were established in higher education. Currently, the University is a large, internationally-oriented educational center, known for its connections in many countries of the world, scientific research and methods of organizing the educational process.
RUDN University in the ranking of universities and student ratings
According to the Interfax rating (2011-2014), this university takes 4-5-6 places annually among more than a thousand Russian universities. However, the average assessment of the university by students is close to "4" out of five possible points, since students are dissatisfied with the corruption, the level of demand for specialists, equipment at a number of faculties, etc. There are both very negative and positive assessments of this institution, although many recognize that it all depends on the student’s desire to learn.
Institute Leads in National Patents
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR) is known for its achievements in the field of scientific activity. He ranks first in the number of scientific articles among more than 10,000 scientific organizations in Russia, conducts annual defense of doctoral and master's theses in more than thirty dissertation councils of the educational institution. The Thomson-Reuters rating indicates that the University in 2002-2012. the second largest number of national patents for inventions was issued in Russia (the first place was occupied by Rosatom, the third by the Ministry of Industry of Russia).
Among graduates of the university there are presidents of states
This university to date has graduated about 90 thousand specialists who work in hundreds of countries around the world, and among them there are presidents of states, ministers, well-known politicians and businessmen. At RUDN University, you can simultaneously receive several diplomas, including several foreign languages, a major, a second higher education and additional courses. Currently, the following faculties of RUDN University are functioning:
- Agrarian. Opened in 1961, has a teaching staff of about 100 people and graduates from masters and bachelors in the specialties: agronomy, veterinary medicine, livestock farming, land management and cadastral affairs, veterinary and sanitary examination, landscape architecture, economics, management. At the faculty, you can complete a master's and postgraduate course in English, gain additional knowledge at the center of further education, including in the field of selection, beekeeping, horse breeding, refereeing in equestrian competitions, etc.
- The Faculty of Engineering, producing bachelors in economics, architecture, construction, oil and gas, the operation of transport and technological complexes, etc. You can also get a master's degree in architecture, geology, construction, nanotechnology, mining, applied geology, etc. Graduate school is open to more than 20 specialties.
- Physico-mathematical \ natural sciences. He prepares bachelors in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics and computer science, radiophysics, etc., as well as masters in the specialties: mathematics, chemistry and physics (including applied and fundamental), etc.
- Faculty of Philology. The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Moscow) prepares bachelors in the field of linguistics, journalism, psychology, philology, advertising, and public relations at this department. The faculty also graduates in seventeen areas of training and has postgraduate studies in ten specialties.
What other faculties of PFUR exist?
- Comprehensive disciplines and the Russian language. Here, students take an intensive course in the Russian language, the basics of general disciplines in the future main department, adapt to life in Russia. The faculty has a center for adapting students to the Russian climate and a testing center.
- Economic, where foreign and Russian citizens can get the specialty of manager (specialization - marketing and general management), economist (insurance, finance, credit, general economics, accounting and other areas). Participation in the double diploma program with the University of Nice is available, training in a magistracy, postgraduate studies, refresher courses.
- Ecological. The faculty has several graduate departments, including the following specialties: systemic, forensic ecology, human ecology, applied ecology and geoecology, water resources management, forecasting and monitoring ecology. Here you can get a bachelor’s and master’s diploma .
- Social and human sciences. About 2.5 thousand people from more than 80 countries of the world study at the faculty, where they receive a bachelor's degree in the areas of: sociology, political science, international relations, history, philosophy, regional studies abroad, municipal and state administration, humanitarian sciences and arts. Masters in history (national), history of civilizations, philosophy, ethics, sociology, political problems and institutions, world politics, regional studies, management (municipal and state), social and international institutes, social management are also graduated here. The faculty is interesting in that it has a dozen joint programs with foreign institutions, including with China, Spain, Germany, France. In addition, students are given the opportunity to obtain a certificate of translator, to practice in government bodies (for individual programs).
Many faculties are organized as institutes.
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, whose faculties are presented above, graduates specialists in other areas, which are organized as internal institutes of the University. For example, obtaining a legal education is possible at RUDN University at a law institute, including in the following specialties: civil, international, family law, arbitration proceedings, corporate lawyer, international law, legal translation (English), energy law, and others. Institute He has postgraduate studies in ten specialties, has as partners many foreign institutions and large international organizations (for example, the European Youth Parliament).
37 specialties are taught at the Faculty of Medicine
What other institutes does PFUR have? The medical faculty of this educational institution is also organized as a separate institute, where you can study in such specialties as: “Pharmacy”, “General Medicine”, “Nursing”, “Dentistry”. The institute has about twenty specialties in internship, about 37 specialties in clinical residency, 33 specialties in graduate school and nine tips through which you can defend a degree.
RUDN graduates can know four or more languages
RUDN University, the medical faculty of which has issued a total of about 6400 specialists for foreign clinics, includes the hotel business (and tourism) institute. This educational institution was created, relatively recently, in 1997 and is an institute with the rights of a faculty. Specialists in the restaurant and hotel business are being trained here, some of whom have already left to work in their native countries — China, Oman, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Gabon, Vietnam, and others. Graduates of this institute are rightfully proud of the fact that they know two foreign Language - English and (optional) Spanish, German, French or Italian (plus Russian and your national).
They can do gravity experiments
RUDN University provides training, including in fairly rare specialties, such as relativistic astrophysics, cosmology and gravity. Such a specialty, as well as postgraduate studies, can be obtained at the educational and scientific institute of gravity and cosmology at the RUDN University, opened in 1999. Graduates of this direction can develop promising gravitational experiments in space and on our planet, explore fundamental metrology and fundamental physical constants.
Joint programs with foreign universities
In addition to the Faculty of Philology, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia has an institute of foreign languages, where subjects are taught in English, including regional studies and international public relations. Future teachers at the institute can study the methodology and theory of teaching foreign languages, psychology and social pedagogy, take postgraduate courses in general pedagogy, Germanic languages. This educational institution, functioning as a faculty of RUDN University, conducts joint programs with the Lille Catholic Institute (France) and the University of Edinburgh (Great Britain).
It is also worth noting the institutes functioning at RUDN University as faculties: international programs, business and the world economy, applied (technical and economic) research and expertises, etc.
Branches and training centers
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia has its own branches in the cities of Yakutsk, Sochi, Perm, Belgorod, Stavropol, Essentuki, as well as twenty-four additional education training centers, including a computer training center, a veterinary innovation clinic, a resource complex for healthcare protection, a center scientific research of the problem of counteracting terrorist acts, and others. University departments of the RUDN University, for example, "Physical Culture and Sports" allow to produce not only oshih professionals, but also people with an active lifestyle and love of movement and sport.