Irkutsk State Agrarian University named after A. A. Ezhevsky, ISAU

• Location: Irkutsk, Russia;
• Age of students: from 17 years;
• Type : mixed;
• Language of instruction: Russian.

The university was founded in 1934 in the city of Irkutsk.

The learning process includes a course of lectures and seminars, practical and laboratory classes, educational and pre-diploma practice.

• Institute of Economics, Management and Applied Informatics;
• Institute of Natural Resource Management;
• Faculty of Agronomy;
• Faculty of Engineering;
• Faculty of Biotechnology and Veterinary Medicine;
• Faculty of Power Engineering;
• College of Road Transport and Agricultural Technologies;
• Trans-Baikal Agrarian Institute.

The university conducts research work in the following areas:

• Development of energy-saving technologies for the cultivation of agricultural crops with the preservation of soil fertility and the production of environmentally friendly crop products;
• Selection and seed production of wheat, potatoes, perennial grasses, non-traditional fodder crops;
• Rational methods and methods of operation and repair of MTP, increasing its durability and reliability;
• Improvement of methods and means for the rational use of electrical energy for thermal and technological purposes in agriculture;
• Development of veterinary measures to increase the productivity of farm animals and obtain high-quality products, scientifically based animal rations;
• Socio-economic, historical conditions for the formation and development of the regional agro-industrial complex;
• Rational methods of nature management and environmental protection;
• Technologies, forms and methods of improving the quality of the educational process in agricultural universities;
• Modeling of sustainable development of rural areas.

The university conducts international relations with the following organizations:

• Belarusian State Technological University;
• Rottenburg University of Forestry;
• Lovely Professional University;
• Shuluni University of Biotechnology and Management;
• Zhetysu State University named after I. Zhansugurov;
• Kazakh Humanitarian Law Innovation University;
• S.Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University;
• Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economics;
• Changchun Institute of International Commerce;
• Inner Mongolia Agricultural University;
• Kyrgyz National Agrarian University named after K.I. Scriabin.

The university provides nonresident full-time students with 8 dormitories for 2280 residential places.

For meals for students and staff, the university has two canteens and two coffee shops. The total number of seats is 318.

To involve students in social and scientific activities, the university organizes and takes part in the following events:

• International Scientific and Practical Conference "Climate, Ecology, Agriculture of Eurasia";
• Readings dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Sergeevich Sviridov;
• All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference with International Participation, dedicated to the memory of A.A. Ezhevsky "Problems and Prospects of Sustainable Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex" 
• The importance of scientific student circles in the innovative development of the agro-industrial complex of the region.

The learning process takes place in buildings equipped with classrooms for seminars and lectures, laboratory and practical classes. The classrooms are equipped with the necessary modern equipment: projectors, screens, computers and a video system.

Students can visit the university's two libraries with reading rooms for 260 seats.

For sports students the university has the following facilities:

• Game room;
• Cardio room;
• Wrestling hall;
• Hall of power gymnastics;
• Tennis hall;
• Hall of classes of a specialized group;
• Ski base;
• Stadium of a wide profile.

At ISAU, the learning process is divided into two semesters: autumn and spring. At the end of each, an examination session is held, after passing the students, they are given vacations (in winter in January, in summer in July and August).

Additional expenses:

• Payment for accommodation;
• Transport;
• Nutrition;
• Leisure and recreation.

For admission to ISAU you must provide:

• Identity card, citizenship;
• State-recognized certificate of education and qualifications;
• Proof of use of the right to admission within a special quota;
• Confirmation of individual achievements, the results of which are taken into account when admitting;
• Confirmation of registration in the system of individual (personalized) accounting (if any);
• SNILS (if any).

The necessary package of documents is provided to the university:

• By mail;
• In person to the admissions office;
• Through EPGU.

At the moment, more than 10 thousand people study at the university.

After graduating from ISAU, graduates become sought-after specialists in the labor market in the agro-industrial sector. To help you find a job, the university has a Career Center.

For admission to bachelor's and specialist's educational programs, an applicant must:

• Completed education is not lower than secondary general;
• Points received for the exam are not lower than:
  • Mathematics — 27;
  • Physics — 36;
  • chemistry — 36;
  • Informatics and ICT — 40;
  • Russian language — 36;
  • Social Studies — 42;
  • History — 32;
  • Biology — 36;
  • Geography — 37.

For admission to master's programs, you must:

• Completed higher education;
• Successful completion of the entrance examinations of the university with scores not lower than the threshold set by the university itself.

For admission to postgraduate programs, you must:

• Completed higher education;
• Successful completion of entrance examinations with scores not lower than the threshold set by the university itself:
  • Special discipline;
  • Foreign language.

As material support for students, the university allocates the following types of scholarships for students:

• State Academic;
• State social;
• the President of the Russian Federation;
• Government of the Russian Federation;
• Students of the preparatory department.

In addition, the university provides financial assistance to students in need.

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision