The population of the city of Orel barely exceeds three hundred thousand people, but, despite this, there are a large number of higher educational institutions in the city. The status of the institute in Orel has three universities - the Institute of Culture, the Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Turgenev Institute. There are also academies and universities.
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In total, there are six higher educational institutions and four branches of nonresident universities in Oryol. In addition, some Oryol institutions of higher education also have branches in other cities. Here is an exhaustive list of them.
- Academy of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
- Oryol State Agrarian University.
- Oryol State Institute of Culture.
- Oryol State Institute of Economics and Trade.
- Oryol State University named after I.S. Turgenev.
- Oryol Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia named after V.V. Lukyanov.
In addition, there are branches of several Moscow universities in Orel. Since 1972, the Oryol Higher Military Command School of Communications, which had previously been based in the small military town of the Kaliningrad Region, has been operating in Oryol. In the nineties, the school was reorganized and reassigned to the newly created Agency for Government Communications. However, the FSO Academy received its modern name only in 2004 and still retains it.
All Orel institutes have state accreditation and are regularly inspected by Rosobrnadzor. The educational plans of universities comply with generally accepted standards and guarantee the high quality of education.
Oryol State University
Oryol University is the largest and oldest university in the city. It was founded in 1931. Two years later, Oryol University was merged with Belgorod, with the result that the number of students was 315 people.
During World War II, a decision was made at the level of the Council of People's Commissars to evacuate the university in a safe area of the Bashkir SSR. Two years later, the evacuation ended, and the university moved to Yelets.
In peacetime, the university slowly developed in accordance with the needs of the region and the country. In 1950, a branch was opened to train specialists in English and French. In the mid-fifties, it became clear that it took more time to prepare specialists whose knowledge would meet the requirements of the present, and all pedagogical universities of a huge country moved on to a five-year term for teacher training. This decision was made in 1956.
University in the XXl century
Today, more than 19,000 students study at the university, and the number of faculties reaches thirteen. The university also includes twelve institutes and three branches. In the 1980s, the university became the leading country in the preparation of students from other countries.
Since 2015, the university received the status of a reference university, which indicates its leading position in the field of innovation in education. As part of the reform of state universities of the city, Prioksky State University was added to OSU , which existed as an independent institution from 1954 to 2016. The university also includes the Academy of Physical Culture and the Center for Advanced Studies, as well as the Institute of Continuing Education.
The administration is doing its best to rebrand the university and present it as an innovation center with a high level of training and high-quality teaching staff. But, despite this, some public organizations in the field of education indicate that quite often candidate and even doctoral dissertations are unfairly defended at the university.
For students, numerous opportunities are created for development and improvement outside of classrooms. The university has sports facilities, multimedia libraries. It is assumed that the rights of students before the administration are defended by the trade union student organization. However, the effectiveness of its activities has been called into question recently.
International exchange
Many Orel institutes are popular with foreign students due to the impeccable ratio of tuition, quality of education and cost of living in the region. In total, students from 55 countries study at the University of Oryol.
However, scandals also occurred in the history of international exchange. For example, in 2017, a German student who already had diplomas from prestigious European universities decided to influence the educational process of OSU, as he was dissatisfied with him, for which he was expelled by the administration.
But a stubborn German student went to court demanding reinstatement and won the lawsuit. The court found the deduction illegal and fined the university twenty thousand rubles. However, student visas were still denied.
But international relations are not unidirectional, and Oryol universities not only accept foreign students, although this area is a priority, but they also send Russian students to foreign educational institutions. Multilateral academic mobility is becoming increasingly important in the modern world, and without the ability to communicate with colleagues from other countries it is difficult to build a successful academic career or international business.
One of the most important areas of activity for the department responsible for international exchange is to attract funds from international funds to finance scientific programs conducted by students and university staff.