Tula State University
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The Tula State University (Russian Тульский государственный университет / abbreviated ТулГУ ) is one of two universities in the central Russian city of Tula. It was founded in 1930 and has around 17,000 students.
History
Today's university was on 30 April 1930 as Tula Mechanical Institute ( Тульский механический институт, ТМИ ) founded and started teaching started in October of the same year with only 240 students on. At that time, the university had a purely technical specialization and should prepare especially young talent for Tula metal and defense industries. She had then hardly own premises and no student residences. The own infrastructure could only be over the years, not least, built with the help of leading Moscow universities.
During the Second World War, the teaching for a few months had to be interrupted when the German Wehrmacht was able to penetrate close to the city and most of the students and faculty of the university had to be drafted into the army. Only in 1943 could the teaching be resumed in full.
In the postwar period, the Institute increased its course offerings over the years considerably, including through the establishment of a Faculty of mining and several new chairs in the field of military technology. 1963 merged the College by decision of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR with the ten years previously furnished Tula Mining Institute and was also the official name Tula Polytechnic Institute ( Тульский политехнический институт, ТПИ ). Thus, the number of the chairs of the Institute 24 was already at nine faculties.
On December 7, 1992, the Institute received a decision of the Russian Ministry of Education the status of a technical university. At the same time the beginning of the 1990s was the education offered by the university again significantly extended, including by the humanities and science departments, as well as offered for the first time bachelor's and master's degree programs. Due to the addition of non-technical course content in the offer of the university in 1995, she received the status of a full university and bears since July 11, 1995 officially changed its current name.
Curriculum and infrastructure
Today, the Tula State University is divided into 12 Divisions:
- Faculty of Mechanics and Automatic Control
- Faculty of Cybernetics
- Faculty of Mining and mining industry
- Faculty of Technological
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Mechanical- mathematical
- Faculty of Economics and Law
- Medical school
- Faculty of Humanities
- Area for evening classes
- Area for distance learning
- Area for preparation for the entrance exams
The number of students currently stands at about 17,000, including about 300 foreign students from 30 countries. There are 1226 teachers employed, of whom 266 the title of professor or Dr. hab. have. The campus of the University includes 18 faculty building and 14 student hostels. Available also own university library is a collection of about one million units.