The country's leading university for the training of specialists, whose field of activity is photon and information technology, is ITMO University. Reviews about the educational institution, founded in 1900, are very numerous and useful for applicants who choose the profession of programming.
Activities and composition
The University of Information Technology has grown the winners of all international programming competitions: six-time champion ACM ICPC, then Google Code Jam, Yandex.Algorithm, Facebook Hacker Cup, Russian Code Cup and many others.
Main directions: photon technologies, IT, quantum communications, translational medicine, robotics, urban studies, Science Communication and Art & Science. More than twenty institutes and faculties work as part of ITMO. The reviews mention twelve thousand undergraduate and postgraduate students studying there with 1,200 high-profile teachers, of whom more than seven hundred doctors and candidates of sciences.
MTMI
The faculty prepares highly qualified managers in the field of high technology and innovation, who are able to achieve success at the intersection of production and science. Naturally, such personnel are constantly in demand, since new technologies primarily require high-level specialists. These are exactly what ITMO prepares. Management, the reviews of which multidisciplinary programs speak for themselves, is internationally competitive, oriented to practical solutions in production. External partners from businesses, public organizations and authorities are widely involved in the educational process.
Specialists who are trained by ITMO receive excellent feedback on work, as they possess not only knowledge of technical and scientific disciplines. Managers brought up by the university have the skills to implement and commercialize all development and research, experience in creating small and medium enterprises of one or another high-tech sector of the economy, and also experience in managing them. ITMO’s unquestioned authority rests on such graduates.
Master
Reviews are completely warm and grateful. Students call the years spent in the magistracy saturated and extremely useful. Most of all good words have been said about the Department of KPiD (computer engineering and design), where future masters, who are already almost adults and a lot of able people, hone their skills.
Teachers are noted as high-class professionals who have not lost their sensitivity, due to which the pupils rise to new levels of professional training within the walls of ITMO. Student reviews talk about dramatic changes even in the direction of practical and scientific activity in order to study related areas of information technology science.
They also talk about foreign internships for the preparation of dissertations that took place in Geneva. An indelible impression was made by visits to design schools known throughout the world, such as IPAC, as well as scientific centers of Switzerland, the UN ... There are extremely many transfers, and each visit probably gave the impetus that drove both the scientific and creative development of students, which gives the magistracy ITMO. Student feedback is simply necessary to read to applicants in order to determine their aspirations regarding their future profession.
All-Russian Olympiad
In April 2015, the 2nd round of the All-Russian Olympiad was held at ITMO. The department of instrumentation technology ITMO reviews were simply unique. Design competitions at universities are not uncommon, but in this case, the Olympics were especially focused on, because the developer of ASCON systems, whose prerogative is automated systems for technological preparation of production, vigilantly followed the competition process.
Students successfully developed instrumentation technology using CAD systems. The idea of the Olympiad belongs to this particular department. ITMO University, reviews of whose activities as the initiator of various events that enhance the qualification level of the developer of events, reached the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, brought the Olympiad to the national level.
Some areas of development
1. The scope of the creation of the CPU. Digital production requires CNC equipment, automatic control systems for all technological processes, CAD technologies and products. Digital productions use the method of group and adaptive technologies, adaptive-selective assembly, which uses the latest measurement data, provides operational analysis and adaptation of technological systems.
2. The scope of precision instruments - assembly automation. The assembly of products with high functional accuracy is carried out despite the fact that the components have an accuracy below the specified. Development of optimization methods, typification and unification of all solutions. The software development environment, types of software control systems are being designed.
3. The scope of development and application of additive technologies. AT research creates techniques: the choice of AT in the manufacture of products and the prediction of quality, the effective use of AT at different stages of the cycle. The development of techniques for the use of AT in injection molds, the cultivation of products from various materials .
ITMO International Programs
Feedback on international cooperation is very numerous, and most of it comes from foreign partners regarding the high level of specialist training at ITMO University.
The University of Ilmenau (Germany) works with ITMO University in three areas at once: the production of systems from polymers and optical products, injection molding using software systems, and the technologies of optical materials from polymers for lens, ophthalmology, diffraction, gradient and microoptics. Liege University from Belgium is engaged in collaboration with ITMO engineering analysis and optimization of polymer structures.
Companies for practice and employment
Reviews about ITMO in St. Petersburg come after internships - undergraduate and industrial. Most often, this also helps in the further employment of graduates. Enterprises are willing to accept ITMO interns and graduates, and employer reviews are most often aimed at further cooperation. Among them are LOMO OJSC, Diaconont CJSC, Tekhpribor OJSC, Avangard OJSC, VNIIRA OJSC, Ascon Company and many, many others.
It is known that specialists in IT, mechanics, and optics are excellently trained, and ITMO is not without reason one of the most famous in Russia. Entering this educational institution is not at all easy, especially for the most prestigious and strong specializations. It is imperative that you already have a sufficiently extensive knowledge and skills base for your chosen specialty.
Freshmen
Even if the admission of the applicant went smoothly, it is not a fact that he will be lucky enough to receive the coveted diploma. The first mass screening of lazy people takes place in the first year, and after the third, lazy people are screened out, and mediocre, because ITMO really values the reputation of the highest quality producer of specialists in these areas of production. Therefore, ITMO applicants and freshmen recommend student feedback not to relax, to learn to work a lot on their own.
ITMO has part-time, part-time and part-time courses. There are paid and budgetary bases. Here you need to touch on a sensitive topic: ITMO has never been caught in bribes, oral and written reviews assure that this is unlikely at all. But there is such a particularity: under any depressing circumstances of a student, the dean's office can transfer to a paid education in the next semester. But only if this happens before the third year. After - it is impossible. University status is more expensive than all the money in the world.
Top 5
ITMO scores are also given in a special way. Such a system was adopted by very few universities, but it is fair, effective and does not hurt student pride. This system is point-rated. For each subject, a mark is put out, consisting of the sum of the accumulated marks during the semester, plus the one received for the exam. How the score is calculated, knows only the teacher of this discipline. After each session, a table with the names of students in the top 50 is posted on the notice board. Naturally, this affects a lot: the choice of a job, a scholarship, and so on.
Joint master's programs with foreign universities provide a wide choice, since ITMO is very actively cooperating with foreign colleagues. The most complex faculties and the most interesting in this regard are CT (computer technology) and FITiP (information technology and programming). The strongest at the last is Parfyonov’s department, where only the winners of school olympiads enter.
Leisure
Mostly, students' leisure time is tightly connected with their studies and future profession, although there is a volunteer center, a rock club, and a dance studio, all kinds of festivals and competitions are held. The main difference between ITMO students and the rest is their competitive focus. The team of this university became the champion of almost all ACM ICPC programmers Olympiads, four times the champion of ICPC. The level of mastery of programming languages is very, very high.
ITMO also collaborates with the Ministry of Defense, where issues of creating software, modeling, and many other areas of activity, where knowledge and programming skills are applied, are being addressed. The university is actively promoting itself in international rankings.
Dormitory
And here ITMO is not coping yet. This is not even a problem, but ITMO's misfortune. The hostel, student reviews are unanimous, just "killed", especially the old buildings. The new ones, of course, are in good condition, but there are catastrophically few of them.
The communal conditions in all the hostels are unsatisfactory. A huge problem is water, both hot and cold. Hot often does not happen. Cold flows weakly - such a pressure. There are few showers; they are only in the economic building. There is only one kitchen on the floor. Residents of the Interuniversity campus and Vyazemsky lane, where the hostel is located at ITMO, leave negative reviews. True, but there is a bonus - the presence of a gym and facilities for tennis.
College
Gifted students have a unique opportunity to enter ITMO University at the age of fifteen, after the ninth grade. That is, the faculty of ACT (secondary vocational education). Future students are accepted here, too, after the eleventh grade. And they train qualified IT specialists here. Specialties are acquired such: programmer of computer systems, information systems in economics, computer networks, automatic control systems.
Graduates of this faculty are always in demand as specialists in various areas of information technology. For example: in the development and testing of applications, the development and operation of info-analytical systems in the enterprise, as well as control systems, in the development and operation of databases and corporate information systems, in the development of communication systems and systems, in the operation and support of digital systems, testing electronic technology in the development of microelectronics. All this puts ITMO College, the reviews of which are very favorable, at a completely independent level in the field of programming.
Learning continuity
Nevertheless, the faculty has continuing professional education programs that allow college graduates to continue their studies at the University, at other faculties - higher education - from the third or second year, depending on how well the student has been successful in college.
But already at the faculty of secondary vocational education, students receive both practical training and deep knowledge in programming technologies, architecture of computer systems, software systems, software and hardware for computer networks, information security, and computer modeling.
The educational process creates the conditions for the full development of professional interests, personal potential and self-education skills for each student. That is why the scientific student society works at the faculty, where practical and scientific developments are made, conferences are held, articles and reports are published, this is how the faculty's own scientific potential is formed. One of the most experienced in the field of programming teaching is SPbNIU ITMO, where in four years you can get a bachelor's degree in science, and in six - a master's degree. Six hundred and forty doctors and candidates of sciences make highly professional IT specialists from students.