Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. PFUR: list of faculties and student feedback

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia was established during the reign of N. Khrushchev, in 1960, as the University of Friendship of Peoples. At the same time, the teaching of one of the main subjects - the Russian language for foreigners - began. A year later, the educational institution was named P. Lumumba, who was a prominent fighter for the independence of African countries at that time, and opened six major faculties, including physics and mathematics, law and economics, medicine, engineering, agriculture, history and philology .

The founder of the PFUR is the Government of Russia

In 1992, by the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation, which is the founder of this educational institution, the UDN was renamed the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. In the 90 years in the university were established new promising faculties. Currently, the University is a large, internationally-oriented training center, known for its connections in many countries of the world, scientific research and methods of organizing the educational process.

PFUR in the rating of universities and in the assessments of students

According to the rating "Interfax" (2011-2014), this university takes 4-5-6 places annually among more than thousands of Russian universities. However, the average score of the university on the part of students is close to "4" out of five possible points, as students are dissatisfied with the corruption, the level of demand for specialists, equipment in a number of faculties, etc. There are both very negative and positive assessments of this institution, although many Recognize that everything depends on the student's desire to learn.

The Institute is the leader in the field of national patents

The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR) is known for its achievements in the field of scientific activity. He takes the first places in the number of scientific articles among more than 10,000 scientific organizations in Russia, holds an annual defense of doctoral and candidate dissertations in more than thirty dissertational councils of the educational institution. The Thomson-Reuter rating indicates that at the University in 2002-2012, The second largest number of national patents for inventions was issued in Russia (the first place is occupied by Rosatom, and the third by the Ministry of Industry of Russia).

Among the graduates of the university there are presidents of states

This university has produced about 90,000 specialists working in hundreds of countries of the world, among them there are presidents of states, ministers, famous politicians and businessmen. In PFUR you can simultaneously get several diplomas, including several foreign languages, major specialty, second higher education and additional courses. At present, the following PFUR faculties function:

• Agrarian. It was opened in 1961, has a teaching staff of about 100 people and graduates masters and bachelors in the following specialties: agronomy, veterinary medicine, zootechny, land management and cadastral business, veterinary and sanitary examination, landscape architecture, economics, management. At the faculty you can finish the magistracy and graduate school in English, get additional knowledge in the center of additional education, including in the field of breeding, beekeeping, horse breeding, judging in equestrian competitions, etc.
• The Faculty of Engineering, which produces bachelors in economics, architecture, construction, oil and gas business, operation of transport and technological complexes, etc. You can also obtain a master's degree in architecture, geology, construction, nanotechnology, mining, applied geology, etc. The post-graduate course of the faculty is open for More than 20 specialties.
• Physics and mathematics \ natural sciences. He prepares bachelors in the field of chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics and computer science, radiophysics, etc., as well as masters in the following specialties: mathematics, chemistry and physics (including applied and fundamental), etc.
• Faculty of Philology. The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Moscow) prepares bachelors in this field in the fields of linguistics, journalism, psychology, philology, advertising, and public relations. Also, the faculty graduates in seventeen areas of training and has a post-graduate course in ten specialties.

What other departments of the PFUR are there?

• General education disciplines and the Russian language. Here students take an intensive course in Russian language, the basics of general disciplines on the future main department, adapt to life in Russia. The faculty has a center for students' adaptation to the Russian climate and a testing center.
• Economic, where foreign and Russian citizens can get a specialty manager (specialization - marketing and general management), economist (insurance, finance, credit, general economy, accounting and other areas). Participation in the program of double diplomas with the University of Nice, training in the magistracy, post-graduate courses, in the courses of advanced training is available.
• Ecological. The Faculty has several graduating departments, including the following specialties: system, judicial ecology, human ecology, applied ecology and geoecology, water resources management, prediction and monitoring ecology. Here you can get a bachelor's and master's degree.
• Social and Human Sciences. The faculty trains about 2,500 people from more than 80 countries around the world, where they receive a bachelor's degree in fields: sociology, political science, international relations, history, philosophy, regional foreign studies, management of municipal and state, humanities and arts. They also graduate masters in history (domestic) programs, history of civilizations, philosophy, ethics, sociology, political problems and institutions, world politics, regional studies, management (municipal and state), social and international institutions, social management. The faculty is interesting in that it has a dozen joint programs with foreign institutions, including with China, Spain, Germany, France. In addition, students are given the opportunity to obtain an interpreter certificate, to pass the practice in public authorities (for individual programs).

Many faculties are organized in the form of institutes

The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, whose faculties are represented above, also produces specialists in other areas, which are organized in the form of internal institutions of the University. For example, obtaining a legal education is possible in the PFUR at a law institute, including in the following specialties: civil, international, family law, arbitration, corporate lawyer, international law, legal translation, energy law, etc. Institute Has a postgraduate course in ten specialties, has as partners many foreign institutions and major international organizations (for example, the European Youth Parliament).

In the medical faculty 37 specialties are taught

What other institutions does the PFUR have? The medical faculty of this educational institution is also organized in the form of a separate institute, where you can study in such specialties as: "Pharmacy", "Medical business", "Nursing", "Stomatology". The Institute has about twenty specialties in internship, about 37 specialties in clinical residency, 33 specialties in graduate school and nine councils through which one can defend a scientific degree.

PFUR graduates can know four or more languages

The PFUR, whose medical faculty has produced about 6,400 specialists for foreign clinics, has an institute of hotel business (and tourism). This educational institution was established, relatively recently, in 1997 and is an institute on the rights of the faculty. Specialists in the restaurant and hotel business are trained here, some of whom have already left to work in their home countries after finishing work - China, Oman, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Gabon, Vietnam, etc. Graduates of this institute are rightly proud to know two foreign Language - English and (optional) Spanish, German, French or Italian (plus Russian and its national).

They can put gravitational experiments

PFUR studies are carried out, among other things, in rather rare specialties, such as relativistic astrophysics, cosmology and gravity. This specialty, as well as the passage of graduate school can be obtained at the educational and scientific institute of gravity and cosmology under the PFUR, opened in 1999. Graduates of this direction can develop promising gravitational experiments in space and on our planet, explore fundamental metrology and fundamental physical constants.

Joint programs with foreign universities

In addition to the philological faculty, the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia has an institute of foreign languages, where subjects are taught in English, including: regional studies, international public relations. At the Institute, future teachers can study the methodology and theory of teaching foreign languages, psychology and social pedagogy, take postgraduate courses in general pedagogy, Germanic languages. This educational institution, functioning on the rights of the PFUR faculty, conducts joint programs with the Lille Catholic Institute (France) and Edinburgh University (Great Britain).

It is also worth noting the institutes functioning under the PFUR as the faculties: international programs, business and the world economy, applied (technical and economic) research and expertise, etc.

Branches and training centers

The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia has its own branches in the cities of Yakutsk, Sochi, Perm, Belgorod, Stavropol, Essentuki, as well as twenty-four additional education training centers, including: a computer training center, a veterinary innovative clinic, a healthcare resource center, a center Scientific research of the problem of counteraction to terrorist actions, etc. Universities departments of the PFUR, for example, "Physical Culture and Sport" allow you to produce not only ho oshih professionals, but also people with an active lifestyle and love of movement and sport.