Kazan State Institute of Culture, KazGIK

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

The university was founded in 1969 in the city of Kazan.

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

The educational process is organized at the following faculties:

• Higher School of Arts,
• Innovations and traditions of folk art culture,
• Socio-cultural technologies and intelligent systems,
• Theatre, film and television,
• Methodologies and technologies of universal competencies.

The university conducts research activities in the following areas:

• Document as an object of cultural research,
• Theory, methodology and organization of socio-cultural activities,
• Philosophical and cultural problems of post-nonclassical science,
• The genesis of cultural forms in the context of the world historical and cultural process,
• Problems of study, preservation and development of folk art culture.

The university conducts international cooperation with the following organizations:

• Luhansk State Academy of Culture and Arts named after M. Matusovsky,
• Comrat State University,
• Baltic International Academy,
• Tajik State Institute of Arts named after M. Tursunadze,
• Academy of Film, Television and Internet Communications,
• K. Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice,
• University of Alicante,
• Academy of Russian Ballet of South Africa,
• University of Theatre and Cinematography of Budapest,
• West Kazakhstan University named after M. Utemisov,
• Republican Choreographic College named after M. Sobirova,
• Kazakh National Academy of Choreography,
• "Silk Road" International University of Tourism,
• Kyzylorda State University named after Korkyt Ata.

The university provides a dormitory for nonresident full-time students. The building has a library with a reading room, choreographic and sports halls.

For meals for students and staff, the university has a buffet and a dining room for 126 seats.

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

• Forum "Mentoring in the Abilympics Movement as a Resource for Integration and Employment of People with Disabilities",
• All-Russian Women's Business Forum "Together",
• "Library Night" campaign,
• Festival "Caravon",
• Tatarstan Cyberpunk Project,
• Round table "Digital content in music education",
• International Festival Ethno and modern fashion week,
• Contest "I can! Creativity without borders",
• International Forum "Medicine and Art".

The learning process takes place in two educational buildings equipped with classrooms for lectures, seminars and practical classes. The classrooms are equipped with modern technology: projectors, screens, TVs and computers with Internet access. Premises for practical education are equipped with specialized equipment:

• Theatrical props,
• Screens
• Piano
• Loom
• Mirrors
• Easels, etc.

Students are given free access to the educational library of the institute with a reading room for 185 seats.

For sports, the Itil sports building is used.

At the institute, the academic year is divided into two semesters: autumn and spring. At the end of each of them, an examination session is held, after which students are given a vacation (in winter in January, in summer in July and August).

Additional expenses:

• Residence
• Transport
• Nutrition
• Leisure and recreation.

For admission to the institute, you must provide:

• Proof of identity, citizenship,
• State-recognized certificate of education and qualifications,
• Confirmation of registration in the system of individual (personalized) accounting (if any).

If necessary, the applicant also provides:

• Proof of use of the right to admission within a special quota,
• Confirmation of individual achievements, the results of which are taken into account at admission,
• Proof of disability or disability.
• 2 photos 3x4.

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 1500 undergraduate and graduate students study at the institute.

After graduating from the institute, graduates become qualified specialists in the cultural and creative field. On the website of the university, the list of vacancies in the organizations of the region is periodically updated.

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

• Completed education not lower than secondary general,
• Entrance examinations in the specialty with scores not lower than the threshold set by the institute itself,
• Points received for the exam are not lower than:
  • Russian language — 40,
  • Social Studies — 45,
  • History — 35,
  • References, 39.

For admission to master's programs, you must:

• Completed higher education,
• Successful completion of university entrance examinations with scores of at least 55.

For admission to postgraduate programs, you must:

• Completed higher education,
• Successful completion of entrance examinations with a score of at least 55:
  • Special discipline,
  • Philosophy
  • Foreign language.

The following types of scholarships are distinguished:

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

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

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision