Moscow University for the Humanities

Moscow University for the Humanities (Russian Московский гуманитарный университет ( МосГУ ) English: Moscow University for the Humanities ) is the first private university in Russia that emerged after 1990.

History

The University was founded in 1944 as the central school of the Komsomol. In April 1969, she became the university of the Komsomol - elitist establishment and cadre of the Central Committee and other governing bodies of the Komsomol Communist youth organizations as well as from other countries around the world. With a large proportion of foreigners, the university enjoyed more freedom in the Soviet era and was considered in the late 1980s as a liberal university in the country. 1987 Boris Yeltsin spoke after delivering all his posts here for the first time to the public. In 1990, the University of the Komsomol was restructured to the first non-governmental and self-managed college and in the Youth Institute ( FH) renamed. Here have studied about 32,000 people between 1969 and 1990. 1991 here the first new faculty was opened - the Faculty of Social Work and Management, where for the first time in Russia social work was taught. 1999 appointed the UNESCO Director-General Federico Mayor Zaragoza, the territory of the university to the territory of the culture of peace. 2000, the Youth Institute was renamed the Moscow Academy for humanities and social science. 2003, the University of Moscow University for the Humanities was.

Subjects

The University has six faculties: economics, law, international relations, advertising, culture and tourism sciences, social work and psychology. Currently, about 8,000 students are enrolled. Currently, the following nationally recognized qualifications are: Bachelor, Master, Diploma, Dr., Dr. hab.

Cooperations

The university cooperates in Russia closely with the National Institute of Business. Major international partner universities are located in China, the UK, Sweden, France and the Netherlands. In Germany, the University cooperates with the East-West Institute in Berlin.

Science

Since Soviet times, particularly the sociological center of the college was known. At the University, there is also the Institute for fundamental and applied research, the Russian intellectual club and the international research of Alexander Zinoviev, who worked here for the last years of his life. The University are two scientific periodicals: " Snanie, Ponimanie. Umenie "and" Scientific works of the university. "