Lobachevsky university of nizhny novgorod

Year of foundation: 1916

Total students: 26 125 /

Faculties: 11 / Departments: 205

Faculty: 1 330

Main educational programmes for prospective international students: 372

Additional educational programmes for prospective international students: 17

• Megagrants under supervision of leading researchers: 7
• International laboratories and research centres: 27
• Supercomputer "Lobachevsky" (the 24th Among the World’s University-based Supercomputers): 1
• Patents: 64
• Small innovative enterprises: 23
• Media Centre: 1
• Research Botanical Garden: 1
• Student summer camp/resort: 2

National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod is a top Russian higher education centre providing thorough training in the best Russian academic traditions. The university has had the status of research centre since 2009.

Lobachevsky University’s distinctive feature is high quality of education and affordable tuition fees. It offers a large range of education programmes and modes of study, as well as scholarships and grant programmes.

UNN won recognition worldwide. It is a member of the European University Association (EUA) and the Deans European Academic Network (DEAN) Executive Committee. It was listed in the top 100 100 BRICS education centres in QS Rankings 2013-2015.

UNN offers English medium programmes in the following fields:

• Fundamental Informatics and Information Technology
• Economics
• International Relations

In 2014, the University launched a state-of-the-art Lobachevsky computational cluster ranking 24th among the world’s supercomputers. In 2015, it opened the SPF Vivarium , the third in Russia, to conduct research in schizophrenia, epilepsy, and Altzheimer’s disease. In 2017, UNN launched the Center for Innovative Development of Medical Instrument Engineering featuring full design and marketing of competitive high-tech domestic products. The Centre is tasked with consolidating the research, clinical and education tracks.

UNN international students take part in the strategic session "I care – I can"

Lobachevsky University takes part in the project "Mobile Quantorum of the Nizhny Novgorod region in Serbia"

Alexey Mikhaylov presents a report at the international microelectronics forum

Lobachevsky University develops cooperation with Chinese partners

International students of Lobachevsky University take part in the festival of national cultures

Lobachevsky University represented at the congress of the British Ecological Society

UNN professor Yaroslav Sergeyev gives lectures at two international conferences in Vietnam

Site visit of the external review panel to Lobachevsky University

Lobachevsky University hosts a conference on neural network-based artificial intelligence

The South Korean Embassy delegation visited Lobachevsky University

Scientists reliably predict people’s age by measuring proteins in blood

Irina Filipova represents Lobachevsky University at the international conference in Japan

UNN team takes second place in the semi-finals of the world programming contest

Researchers investigate the effects of eye movements when reading texts in different languages

Effective method for correcting various CNS pathologies developing under oxygen deficiency

Lobachevsky University hosts international school-conference in the field of IT

Smart clothing developed at Lobachevsky University is shown in Warsaw

Alexey Mikhaylov represents Lobachevsky University at the Russian Digital Week in Italy

CONTACTS

• +7 (831) 462-31-06
• Gagarin Avenue 23, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russian Federation
• www.unn.ru/eng/

DESCRIPTION

National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (Lobachevsky University)

UNN – creative, innovative, entrepreneurial!

Year of foundation: 1916

Location: Nizhny Novgorod

Total students: 16,500 / International students: 1,000

Faculties: 18 / Departments: 165

Acting Rector: Kirill Markov

Lobachevsky University is a large and comprehensive research university, and a leader in innovative development of the region and the country in the global knowledge-based society. The advantages of our University are related to the numerous opportunities for implementing a wide range of advanced educational programs, conducting interdisciplinary research, and create innovative products at the intersection of sciences. This enables the University to promptly address the “big challenges”, the complexity and scale of which require synergy between experts in various fields of modern science.

• Information and Communication Systems and Technology
• Supercomputer Computation
• Materials Science
• Biology & Biomedicine
• Physics & Radiophysics
• Chemistry
• Law
• Social Sciences
• International Relations & Foreign Languages Economics, Management & Innovative Entrepreneurship

Research

• Mathematics
• Applied Mathematics
• Mechanics of Deformable Solids
• Radiophysics and Electronics
• Physics of Solids
• Inorganic Chemistry
• Chemistry of Organo-elemental Compounds
• Biology
• Sociology
• Economics
• Psychological Problems
• Problems of the Development and Functioning of the Russian Language
• Law
• Universal and Russian History
• Physical Culture and Sports

International collaboration and partnerships

UNN has been involved in many valuable international projects with more than 100 partners from all over the world:

• Tempus-Tacis joint European projects supported by the European Commission
• ERANET-MUNDUS: Euro-Russian Academic Network-Mundus “Partnership with Higher Education Institutions of Third Countries and Mobility Scholarships,” “International Masters in Russian, Central and Eastern Europe Studies”
• EURECA program – enhancement of the research and entrepreneurial capacity of Russian universities (partners: University of Maryland, USA; Purdue University, USA)
• “Capacity Building Partnership to Improve Tourism Education, Research, and Industry Outreach” project (University of Florida, USA)
• Erasmus Mundus Action 2 – Aurora: Towards Modern and Innovative Higher Education
• ERASMUS+ KA1 programmes with the University of Poitiers (France), Grenoble Alpes University (France), University of Calabria (Italy), Volda University College (Norway), Radboud University (The Netherlands), University of Glasgow (UK) and Nottingham Trent University (UK).

• Valery Fokin, Russian chemist. In 2013 and in 2018, Dr. Fokin was nominated for Nobel Prize
• Yaroslav Sergeev, awarded the Pythagoras International Prize in Mathematics (2010) for his studies of infinitesimal quantities
• Alexander Sokurov, Russian filmmaker and script writer
• Mikhail Seslavinsky, head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications
• Yelena Posevina, Russian rhythmic gymnast, two-time Olympic champion, world and European champion
• Zakhar Prilepin, modern Russian writer and political activist
• Alexander Sergeev, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician.