As in any other regional center of Russia, the universities of Orel are popular not only among local youth, but also among students from other Russian regions and even from foreign countries. Foreigners are in demand for a variety of specialties and faculties, while among Russians there has been a significant increase in interest in technical professions.
Universities of the Eagle
For 2017 in the city of Orel there are three large educational institutions of higher education:
- Oryol State Agrarian University named after N.V. Parakhina;
- Academy of Federal Security Service of Russia;
- Oryol State University named after I. S. Turgenev, which is often called simply OSU.
The oldest of them and the largest is Oryol State University, whose founding date is considered to be 1931, when the Industrial Pedagogical Institute appeared in Orel.
Initially, the university consisted of four faculties: physical-technical, chemical-biological, literary, social and technical. In this case, at first only one hundred and twenty-one students studied at the university.
Pretty quickly it became clear that in this form the existence of the university was impractical, and in 1933 it was combined with the Belgorod Pedagogical Institute. Today, the largest university in Orel has eleven faculties, eleven institutes and two academies. In addition, since 2015, the university received the status of a reference, which indicates its special position in the education system of modern Russia.
More than four thousand students are studying at the university in technical, pedagogical and humanitarian specialties, many of whom achieve the highest awards at international competitions and olympiads.
History and Geography
Although the history of the universities of Oryol begins with a university whose main specialization was technology, without an agricultural university, the educational system of the region would be incomplete.
The location in the chernozem region created all the necessary prerequisites for creating a strong agronomic school, based on the vast experience of farmers in this region.
Today, the university has eight faculties and one specialized college. In addition, there is a student design bureau in which students design samples of promising agricultural equipment. All universities of Orel are preparing students for independent life and help them in finding work by organizing special centers for professional development.