Stavropol State Agrarian University, Russian Federation

Stavropol State Agrarian University is one of the largest agrarian universities in Russia with an 85 years history and is one of the best according to the rating held by Russian Ministry of Education. It is the leading educational, scientific and production cluster in the South of Russia. The university offers more than 100 study programmes at the 9 faculties.

Agronomy Faculty was created in 1941. During this time thousands of professionals have been trained here. There are not only the leaders of all levels of agro-industrial complex and specialists of agricultural enterprises, but also famous scientists among the graduates of the faculty. People want to work in this field, to create new varieties of plants, plant gardens, gather rich crops of grain, vegetables and fruits. Each year the faculty receives more than 200 students. There are more than 1 400 students of internal and distant forms of education. The best students have got government grants. There are 85 teaches: four of them are members of Russian Academy of Agricultural Science, 17 professors, 43 lecturers. 90 percent of the staff are graduates of the Faculty of Agronomy. Agriculture is the main direction of the faculty. Training is conducted according with the modern government standards of university education.

In addition, the department has the second specialties: Land Registry, Municipal Cadastre, Land Management and Cadastre (bachelor and master), Confectionery, Foods of plant origin.

In general there are nowadays 15.5 thousand students, 200 PhD students, 47 departments, 83 innovation laboratories, scientific library, institute of additional professional education (IAPE), 5 dormitories, 2 sport complexes, horse-riding school, 3 plant houses, 2 vivaria at the University. Property of the university includes 119 objects of real estate with total area of 158.3 thousand square meters, 18 land plots with total area of 9609.6 hectares as part of educational and experimental farm, which is equipped with modern agricultural machinery. The University is a Winner of the EFQM Excellence Award 2016, the holder of the Russian federal grant “Innovative Educational Project”, member of Magna Charta, ICA, AEB, EFQUEL