One of the oldest and most glorious universities in the country is Moscow State University. This is the largest classical university, the center of national culture and science. In 1940, Moscow State University was named after the brilliant Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov. The full name of the university is rarely pronounced, the abbreviation "MSU" is a symbol of better education, they are used to it, and therefore it is used more widely. This educational institution is called the federal state budgetary educational institution only in documents.
Structure
Moscow State University is fifteen research institutes, forty-three faculties, six branches (including abroad), more than three hundred departments. In Azerbaijan (Baku), Tajikistan (Dushanbe), Armenia (Yerevan), Uzbekistan (Tashkent) and in the hero-city of Sevastopol. Until 1995, there was a branch of Moscow State University in Ulyanovsk, now in its place a separate university. Until 2013, a branch in Pushchino operated for six consecutive years, but according to the monitoring results, it was recognized as ineffective and ceased to exist. Moscow State University is one of the best libraries in the country, with a full range of literature from all areas of human knowledge, which is presented not only in Russian, but also in almost all foreign languages.
SUNC of Moscow State University (decoding: Specialized Educational and Scientific Center) - founded in 1963, a boarding school, in the opening of which the largest scientists of the USSR, including A. N. Kolmogorov, participated, is preparing a shift for university graduates. This is today the most prestigious school of secondary schools. All applicants must visit the museums of Moscow State University - Open Day (2017 - January 15) did not leave anyone indifferent. On the website of the university you can see information about what, where and how it happened at all faculties. The interpretation of the word "MSU" is known to everyone, but even students studying there are not able to encompass everything that happens there, even with thought. The scope is too big.
Briefly
The most important is, of course, the history museum of Moscow State University. Open House Day 2017 shows how interesting it is for future applicants. Also a lot of reviews were left in the Research Museum of Zoology, in the Museum of Geography, the university herbarium is amazing, and the Botanical Garden is loved not only by all of Moscow, but also by tourists visiting it. The university has affiliated organizations. There is a student theater, many creative clubs: poetry, Golden Forests, climbers club, yacht club and many others.
The own press organ is Vestnik MSU, which constantly covers all the activities of the university. In addition, the most powerful computer is the SKIF MSU supercomputer. Students create public organizations to actively participate in the life of the country and the capital. For example, there is a nature protection team (Faculty of Biology), voluntary fire brigades. Almost every student of the history department works in the archive - the largest of all university ones. The Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University holds a variety of inter-university master classes and scientific and practical seminars. Philologists and historians go on folklore expeditions. Life is in full swing literally everywhere. Since 1992, the post of rector has been occupied by Academician V. A. Sadovnichy.
Story
Moscow University was created at the proposal of M.V. Lomonosov and I.I. Shuvalov. The discovery occurred after the signing of the decree of Empress Elizabeth on January 24, 1755. Since then, January 25 has always been celebrated by MSU students as Tatyana’s day, and subsequently all universities have joined this holiday. The very first lectures were given at the university only at the end of April. The first director was A. M. Argamakov, and the curator was I. I. Shuvalov. The main university of the country was subordinate only to the government - the Senate. Nobody could judge the profession, except for the university itself, and that should have been the sanction of the director and curator. The head was the curator, who appointed teachers and approved lecture programs and courses. The director was supposed to be engaged in economic activities.
Initially, Moscow State University was located in the former Zemsky order (the building of the Main Pharmacy), where the Historical Museum is now (Red Square). Catherine the Great relocated him to a special building, built by architect Kazakov, on Mokhovaya Street, on its opposite side. In the eighteenth century, only three faculties were opened: law, medicine and philosophy. In 1779, the noble guesthouse was founded by the poet Cheraskov, which was later transformed into a gymnasium. The walls of the university published the most popular of the country's newspapers - Moscow News. In the nineteenth century, new faculties appeared at Moscow State University: mathematics and physics, verbal sciences, medical, as well as moral and political, in total four faculties. In the twentieth century in 1949, construction began on a new remarkable main building on the Sparrow Hills.
Building
Now what does MSU mean? The decoding is still the same, but this university is located in more than six hundred buildings. The total area of all structures is more than a million square meters. The territory in Moscow alone is one hundred twenty hectares. How could its creator Mikhail Lomonosov dream of such a university? Huge Fundamental Library - The Intellectual Center was rebuilt in 2005. Housewarming was celebrated by three faculties. A new one has appeared - political science. Five buildings of the Medical Center were built - with a polyclinic, analytical and diagnostic centers, a hospital for three hundred places and a training building. In 2009, students of the faculties of the humanities received their third building, and in 2013 the law faculty moved to the fourth building of Moscow State University. A dormitory with six thousand seats, a stadium and two rings of buildings around the Foundation Library has already been built. In addition, the old and new territories were connected by the largest underground passage under the entire Lomonosov Avenue. New settlers at Moscow State University: Faculty of Economics, research and laboratory buildings.
This scope is worth it because there is no higher graduate level in the country and very few in the world. This is indicated by ratings, including international ones. MSU is represented in almost every world rating system. Among Russian universities, it is stable and for many years in the first place, almost always. The only university in the CIS to which the agency "RA" has assigned class "A" in the ranking. In 2016, the reputation rating of Times Higher Education brought Moscow State University only the thirtieth place among universities in the world, but it must be borne in mind that the position of a Russian university will always be lower than that of English or American.
Faculty of Economics
Moscow State University, as already mentioned, is a classic, the oldest university in Russia with forty-three faculties, which perfectly train personnel in a wide variety of areas, whose professors and graduates have made a huge, invaluable contribution to Russian science for the good of their homeland. The Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University is the largest in terms of student numbers, the first to switch to level training. Bachelors spend four years at the university. They comprise approximately 2,300 students at Moscow State University. The master 's program is a two-year program, about 650 people study there. Eight dissertation councils of the faculty contribute to the defense of dissertations of future candidates and doctors of science, and about 450 people study in graduate school.
The faculty has more than 400 teachers, including 92 doctors and 220 candidates of sciences. Here, annually, leading Russian economists from research institutes, government bodies, and big business are conducting academic and research work by invitation. Among the invited there are many foreign professors. The faculty includes twenty-one departments, nine research and five auxiliary laboratories. The highest governing body is the Academic Council, headed by the dean, deputies, heads of departments and laboratories, as well as elected teachers, scientists and students. The most urgent problems, all strategic issues of the life and activities of the faculty and the Moscow State University as a whole are being resolved at the academic council.
Olympiad
Moscow State University, with the support of other educational centers, annually holds school and student Olympiads. For example, in the educational center "University Standards" two olympiads are being prepared - "Conquer the Vorobyovy Gory" and "Lomonosov". In general, at the Moscow State University Olympiads are held in ten subjects: Russian, foreign languages, social studies, geography, history, biology, chemistry, literature, physics, mathematics. Thus, preparation for entrance exams is carried out, since the program of olympiads is included in the preparatory course of Moscow State University. Such a practice has long been working when winners and prize-winners receive benefits: either enrollment without exams, or one hundred points in the profile exam, or one hundred points for an additional entrance test. It is possible to tell more about some olympiads.
First of all, it is the Tournament of Cities where "Conferences" are held. They are in quotation marks, because there are no plenary reports and the official program in general. This is more like informal meetings where the winners of the international math tournament gather. The teachers accompany the students, but they do not play the main role here. The purpose of such conferences is to teach capable students to act independently, to solve research problems, sometimes with access to open problems in mathematics. Just telling the terms of such a plan would require a whole lecture, and very possibly not just one. The first day of work is the presentation of tasks that are solved individually and collectively (free form), and is given for this for several days with two finishes - preliminary and final. After this, the decisions are checked, and they are thoroughly analyzed. Such conferences are active leisure, work in full, intense and creative, plus interesting communication. They pass in different parts of the country and beyond its borders, from Pereslavl-Zalessky to Adygea, from Kaliningrad and Belarus to Teberda and Yugoslavia, from Uglich to Hamburg.
RAS, Moscow State University and School of Mathematics
Since 2001, a mathematical school, unique in composition of participants and teachers, has been held. For two whole weeks, a hundred students attend lectures and engage in seminars lasting 74 minutes each lesson (shorter than the university “pair”, but longer than the academic hour). Despite this, many attend four classes a day, so much so for them. Those who have completed this school are already able to understand from their own experience what modern mathematics is and what MSU means. Decoding by yesterday's winners of the olympiads of this abbreviation has already been done, each of them is sure that this is “My State University”.
The results of these schools were numerous books and brochures, videos of all classes were made. Naturally, one MSU could not arrange this event on such a scale every year. This is possible only in cooperation. In the organization and provision of lecturers, the leading role is played by Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Yandex, Dynasty, the Fund for Mathematical Studies, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and many others always help. The Commonwealth is naturally interested and mutually beneficial, for the most capable students will go to Moscow State University, and subsequently replenish the ranks of scientists and researchers, strengthening their talents with the reputation of these institutions. This is already a tradition - holding such summer schools, and real happiness for gifted students is a week and a half of communication with the best mathematicians in Russia, scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences and professors of Moscow State University.
Olympiad "Lomonosov"
This is the first level Olympiad, it provides benefits for admission to Moscow State University to the maximum. The Lomonosov Olympiad has been held since 2005, always including such stages as the qualifying and full-time rounds. The selection is carried out in absentia, for which it is necessary to carry out preliminary tasks, the conditions of which are annually posted on the university’s website. For example, mathematics, eleventh grade: 2.5 thousand schoolchildren take part in the first round, only a little more than eight hundred remain in the second stage.
Passing score - five out of ten solved problems. This year, 3,500 participants of the first round are expected. The Lomonosov Olympiad is being held not only at the main, but also at many regional venues, which is agreed in advance regarding the profiles. Eleventh graders who have reached the final stage can choose a place to participate on their own. The Olympiad begins everywhere at the same time, the tasks are the same. They are checked according to general criteria and centrally, the place of participation does not play any role.
Where does it happen
Directly in Moscow, Moscow State University holds olympiads in philosophy, social science, psychology, biology, foreign languages, political science, history, physics, law, geology, computer science, ecology, engineering, journalism, mathematics, mechanics and mathematical modeling, and the history of Russian statehood , chemistry, geography, Russian language, literature, journalism, psychology. In addition, the Altai State University (Barnaul) hosts Olympiads in social studies, the history of Russian statehood, history, literature and chemistry. In Rostov-on-Don at the Southern Federal University, an olympiad in psychology is held. At St. Petersburg University - also psychology, and at ITMO - chemistry.
In Tomsk - psychology. In Belgorod and Vladivostok, in addition to Moscow and Barnaul, there is a history of Russian statehood. Also in Vladivostok - law, physics, ecology, geology, mathematics, Russian, geography, history, literature. In Kazakhstan, in Astana, a branch of Moscow State University, where competitions are held in physics, mathematics, the Russian language, and geography. In Belgorod, in addition to the history of Russian statehood, physics is the subject of the Olympiad. At Volgograd State University - physics, mathematics, history. At Tyumen State University and Ulyanovsk - mathematics, and in Kursk, at Southwestern State University - chemistry.
Passing points
To the Faculty of Mechanics and Mechanics (full-time) in order to study subjects at the Moscow State University on the program "mathematics" with a degree in "fundamental mathematics and mechanics", applicants in 2016 should have scored 342 points. At the Faculty of Cybernetics and Computational Mathematics, undergraduate students who scored 425 points received full-time undergraduate programs.
Future physicists and astronomers in the baccalaureate scored 335 points, and chemists-bachelors - 338. In the magistracy - sixty points more. Biologists and ecologists could not enter the bachelor's program if they did not score 438, and the geologists - 287. The remaining high schools have approximately the same high scores.