Chelyabinsk State University

In accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and Chelyabinsk State University Charter, the University management is carried out by the Rector, who is elected in a secret vote at the Conference for a five-year term. In 2014, Diana Tsiring, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, was elected Rector.

Rector of the University determines its structure, staff list, controls the issues concerning educational, scientific, economical and financial university activities, heads the Academic Council.

The faculty deans are elected by the university Academic Council in a secret vote for the term of five years. Heads of the university departments are also to be elected by the Academic Council. As for directors of the institutes and regional offices, their election is appointed by the Rector's order.

The overall university management is carried out by the elected representative body, namely the Senate of the Academic Council of the University, consisting of the Rector (the chairman), Pro-Rectors and Deans of the faculties. Other members of the Academic Council are elected by secret ballot at the Conference.

In order to settle the most important questions concerning the vital university activities, the University Conference is summoned by the Rector and the Academic Council, composed of the university academic staff along with other occupational groups and students.[2]

The following are the Faculties and Institutes of the University:[5]

• Faculty of Biology[6]
• Faculty of Chemistry[7]
• Faculty of Ecology[8]
• Faculty of Economics[9]
• Faculty of Journalism[10]
• Faculty of History and Philology[11]
• Faculty of Eurasia and East[12]
• Faculty of Extra Mural and Distant Education[13]
• Faculty of Fundamental Medicine
• Faculty of Linguistics and Translation[14]
• Faculty of Mathematics[15]
• Faculty of Physics[16]
• Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy[17]
• Institute of Economics of Industry, Business and Administration[18]
• Institute of Information Technologies[19][20]
• Institute of International Education
• Institute of Law[21]
• Institute of Professional Development and Retraining[22]
• Laboratory of Quantum Topology[23]
• Management Faculty[24]
• Russian language Courses[25]

The Institute for International Education provides Foundation courses for international students to study the Russian language before enrollment in Bachelor's or master's degree programs.

Chelyabinsk State University constantly develops international cooperation the history of which started back in 1994, when the University first began acting as a member of TEMPUS program. As a result of enhanced communication between the universities and the effective common work in the framework of TEMPUS project CSU lecturers, and management got a clear impression of how the European educational process is organized.

Today CSU has agreements with foreign partners from Austria, Vietnam, Germany, Iran, Spain, Italy, China, France, Switzerland, etc. and intensively develops research and academic cooperation. The University is a platform for international conferences including those indexing the materials by WoS and Scopus.

International students from more than 20 countries choose Chelyabinsk State University and annually come to study here.

• Top-50 in National Aggregated Rating of Russian Universities 2020[26][27]
• 59 in Vladimir Potanin Foundation Universities Rating 2020[28]
• 174-179 in Interfax National Universities Rating 2020[29]
• 522 in RankPro Academic Rankings 2019/20 (25th among Russian universities)[30][31]
• 625 in SCImago Institutions Rankings 2020 (52nd among Russian universities)[32][33]
• 651-686 in RankPro BC-Index Rankings 2019/20 (29th among Russian universities)[34][35]
• 2544 in UniRank University Ranking 2020 (67th among Russian universities)[36][37]
• 2968 in Webometrics Ranking of World Universities 2020 (56th among Russian universities)[38]

This list is in the Russian version of Wikipedia [39].

• Official website (in Russian)
• Official website (in English)