The Republic of Dagestan is famous for the Dagestan State Pedagogical University. This educational institution is by far the largest scientific and educational complex in the region. There are more than 15 faculties. Structural units offer applicants over 30 specialties, areas of training, master's programs.
Historical information
Dagestan Pedagogical University has been operating since 1917. It was founded in the city of Temirkhan-Shura (modern name is Buinaksk). The educational institution was called a pedagogical institute, and it was located in the building of one school. The created university did not last long. During the civil war, he had to stop his activities. The institute resumed work in 1931.
In the difficult years of World War II, the university functioned in Makhachkala. He worked in a new status. It was a female teacher training institute. In 1964, a transformation took place. The university began to be called a pedagogical institute. And in 1994, the status changed. The university continued to carry out educational activities as the Dagestan State Pedagogical University.
The goals of the university and its work at present
The pedagogical university has one main goal. It consists in satisfying the needs of the labor market of the Republic of Dagestan with well-trained teaching staff. This goal has been successfully completed. Every year, several hundred specialists leave the university walls, completing full-time and part-time studies. Graduates are in demand. This is confirmed by the annual monitoring of employment. For example, in 2013, the collected information showed that only 1.1% of university graduates were registered at employment centers.
Dagestan State Pedagogical University in Makhachkala provides training in a wide range of specialties and areas of training. Sometimes new educational programs open. In 2013, creative directions appeared. This is “Design”, and “Decorative and Applied Art”, and “Painting”, and “Graphics”, and “Sculpture”.
Structural units
The university gained fame and prestige thanks to fruitfully functioning faculties associated with the following profiles:
- physics, computer science and mathematics;
- a story;
- right;
- management;
- foreign languages;
- Dagestan philology;
- geography;
- philology;
- teaching children in primary school;
- engineering and pedagogical areas;
- technology and economics;
- preschool education;
- creativity;
- Belarusian Railways and physical education;
- social pedagogy and psychology;
- special (defectological) education.
Popular faculties of the Dagestan State Pedagogical University
Modern applicants choose such units that offer relevant and sought-after specialties. These include the Faculty of Management. It appeared in 1996, when the university was already functioning with a new legal status and expanded the list of areas of study. The created division offered applicants "Management". The faculty implements training in this area of ​​training now. Applicants choosing Management are credited to undergraduate courses. For specialists with higher education, the faculty has a master's program - “Theory of Management and Education Management”.
The entrants are interested in the Faculty of Technology and Economics. This is a promising and practice-oriented structural unit of the Dagestan State Pedagogical University. The Faculty of Technology and Economics appeared in 1995 on the basis of the Industrial and Pedagogical Faculty, which has been operating since 1979. The structural unit conducts educational activities in several areas - “Technology and Entrepreneurship”, “Economic Theory”, “Economics”, “Pedagogical Education” (profiles - “Economics and Technology”, “Computer Science and Technology”).
Scientific activity
The university is engaged not only in educational activities, but also in science. All work is carried out in several directions:
- physical and mathematical;
- chemical;
- historical;
- economic;
- philological;
- geographic
- environmental;
- pedagogical;
- psychological.
The most interesting results of scientific research activities are published in the journal Izvestia of the Dagestan State Pedagogical University. It has been published since 2007 and is included in the List of peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications of the Higher Attestation Commission. In each issue you can find the work of teachers, graduate students, doctoral students on topics related to psychology, pedagogy, theory and teaching methods.
University on the world stage
The goals of the university include the development of international activities. The rector of the Dagestan State Pedagogical University - Magomed Imranovich Abdulaev - is actively involved in this. For example, as of 2013, the educational institution had concluded more than 20 agreements with universities in far and near abroad.
Now contacts are also being established. DSPU cooperates with universities in Turkey, Jordan, Great Britain, Cyprus, Belgium, Ukraine, Poland, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and other countries. Agreements established between universities positively affect the final result of the DSPU. They contribute to the constant exchange of students and graduate students, participation in international conferences, research projects, forums.
Dagestan State Pedagogical University is a worthy higher educational institution with a glorious history and traditions. It has developed over a large number of years and is now striving for the best results of its activities, continues to improve educational services, and to perform high-quality work in the direction of international cooperation. The development of the university is currently carried out under the leadership of Magomed Imranovich Abdulaev - rector of the university, professor, doctor of legal sciences.