Omsk State Pedagogical University
The Omsk State Pedagogical University (also Omsk State Pedagogical University, Russian Омский государственный педагогический университет, short ОмГПУ or OmSPU ) is a State University is founded in 1932 in the Russian city of Omsk. She has more than 13,000 students. Rector of the University is Konstantin Churkin.
History of the University
The Omsk Pedagogical Institute was founded in 1932. At that time there were only three faculties: the Faculty of Philology, the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics and the Faculty of Biology and Chemistry. 1932, the first 120 students were included, of whom 79 were later released as young teachers.
Two faculties were opened even before the war, the Department of History and the Faculty of Geography. After the war, three new faculties have been established, namely the Faculty of Foreign Languages , a faculty for teaching the lower grades and one for professional development for teachers.
The Institute is the name AMGorki 1936 awarded. Since 1993 it is a university.
The University Today
Nowadays, the Pedagogical University Omsk has 16 faculties and 64 departments. Also, are available:
- Five buildings of the University
- Three student residences
- A publisher
- A healing center
- A sanatorium for prophylactic care
- A field station
- An agro- biological center
- Sports club, etc.
In the north and in the south of Omsk Oblast work two branches of the university: in container and in Nowowarschawka.
The University developed international relations with many countries. Every year many foreign students came to Omsk to study at the university. Today, students study there from China, Germany, the U.S., Mongolia, Austria, Australia, the Netherlands, France, Vietnam, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt, Japan and Italy, etc.
The University Library, founded in 1932, has more than 700,000 books, the oldest of which have appeared in the 17th century.
Teachers and Study Guide
Work about 800 lecturers at the University. Among them are more than 90 habilitated doctors and professors and more than 400 non- habilitated doctors and teachers. The faculties and departments of the University train highly qualified specialists in the field of higher vocational education in 45 disciplines, including 17 no educational.
At the OmSPU study more than 13,000 students, including approximately 1,500 graduate annually. The scientific and research base of the University allows the training of qualified specialists in modern and perspective disciplines: Specialist, Bachelor and Master. There are all conditions for scientific work: postgraduate, doctoral and councils for science and research.