Ufa State Petroleum Technological University

Ufa State Petroleum Technological University (USPTU) is one of leading technical universities training specialists for the fuel-and-energy complex of Russia. Founded in 1948, the university has trained over 100 000 engineers in demand on the Russian and international job markets. The university offers training programs in all fields of oil and gas industry: from exploration, development and operation of oil and gas fields, oil and gas transportation, storage, refining and marketing to petroleum enterprise economics and management. USPTU has 3 branches in Sterlitamak, Salavat and Oktyabrsky cities. The university’s structure comprises 7 faculties, 2 institutes, pre-university training, Russian language school, postgraduate and doctoral training departments. Today USPTU has around 18 000 students from 56 regions of the Russian Federation and 47 foreign countries. The university offers more than 100 Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs, 29 postgraduate and 5 doctoral programs.The academic teaching staff of the university is represented by over 1200 highly qualified professionals including 150 Doctors of Science and more than 600 PhDs. Student and teacher academic mobility is one of dynamically developing directions in USPTU. In the frame of academic mobility programs international students come to USPTU for short-term training, semester studying, and the 2+3 training program, as a result of which the double diplomas of USPTU and a foreign partner university are awarded.