Kazan State Power Engineering University, KSPEU

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

The university was founded on August 27, 1999 and is one of the three specialized energy universities in the country.

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

• Institute of Thermal Power Engineering;
• Institute of Digital Technologies and Economics;
• Institute of Electric Power Engineering and Electronics;
• Department of Postgraduate Studies.

Research activities in KSPEU are carried out in the following areas:

• Problems of hydrodynamics and heat and mass transfer in heat and power processes and installations;
• Intensification of heat exchange equipment used in heat power engineering systems and industrial heat technologies;
• Creation of scientific foundations and development of new efficient electrical equipment;
• Improving the efficiency, reliability and increasing the service life of electrical and heat engineering equipment of power plants;
• Prospects for the development and development of non-traditional and small-scale energy facilities;
• Hydrogen energy and fuel cells;
• Neural network control of operational parameters of the fuel combustion process at thermal power plants;
• Development of nonlinear automated process control systems in the equipment elements of thermal power plants;
• Vibration testing of instruments and equipment in order to improve the reliability of operation;
• Development of algorithms for the study of increased vibration.

The University conducts international cooperation with the following organizations:

• Electric Power University of Vietnam;
• Fraunhofer Institute for Nanotechnology;
• University of Edinburgh;
• Kyrgyz State Technical University (KSTU) named after I. Razzakov;
• State Energy Institute of Turkmenistan;
• University of North Carolina, Charlotte;
• Termez Institute of Engineering and Technology;
• University of Craiova (Universitatea din Craiova);
• University of Edinburgh;
• Sumgayit State University.

The university provides nonresident full-time students with four dormitories for a total of 2408 places. The cost of living per month is 630 rubles, the cost of additional household services is up to 330 rubles.

For meals for students and staff, the educational university has a canteen / buffet for 150 seats.

To involve students in social and scientific activities, KSPEU organizes and participates in the following events:

• All-Russian Olympiad in Electric Power Industry;
• XII Republican Festival "Student Spring of the Republic of Tatarstan";
• Interuniversity competition of technical translation in English;
• International Scientific and Practical Online Conference "Power Grids: Reliability, Safety, Energy Saving and Economic Aspects";
• Tatarstan International Forum on Energy and Energy Efficiency — 2023;
• Spring Intellectual Festival "Energy Spring";
• Round table "Economic and legal regulation in the energy sector";
• Tatarstan International Forum on Energy and Resource Efficiency-2023;
• International Scientific and Technical Conference "Technological Sovereignty and Digital Transformation";
• Republican festival of fitness aerobics "Spring sneaker".

The process of formation of KSPEU is carried out in 6 scientific and laboratory buildings equipped with classrooms. Classroom equipment: projector, screen; microscopes;  Machines; kits for laboratory work; a set of samples; laboratory stands, etc.

Students are given free access to the KSPEU library for 157 seats.

For sports, the university has 2 gyms.

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

When studying at the university students undertake the following additional expenses:

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

For admission to KSPEU, applicants must provide:

• an identity document or a document substituting it;
• a document on education of the established form;
• a document on the change of name (if necessary);
• documents confirming the benefit;
• documents confirming the receipt of the results of individual achievements (if any);
• SNILS;
• INN;
• medical certificate in the form No. 086u for eduaction in the following areas: "Heat Power Engineering and Heat Engineering" and "Electric Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering".

The necessary package of documents is provided to the university:

• personally;
• by registered mail with notification;
• through EPGU.

At the moment, about 9000 undergraduate and graduate students are studying at KSPEU.

The university has a Career and Employment Department, and there is a digital career environment called the Facultetus platform.

For admission to undergraduate educational programs, an applicant must:

• Completed education is not lower than secondary general;
• Points received for the exam are not lower than:
  • Mathematics — 39;
  • Physics — 39;
  • Russian language — 40;
  • Informatics and ICT — 44;
  • Biology, 39;
  • Social Studies — 45;
  • History — 35;
  • chemistry — 39;
  • Foreign language — 30.

For admission to master's programs, you must:

• Completed higher education;
• Successful completion of an interdisciplinary exam with a score of at least 40.

For admission to postgraduate programs, you must:

• Completed higher education;

• Successful completion of the entrance test with a score of at least 40:
  • Special discipline;
  • Philosophy;
  • Foreign language.

The following types of scholarships are established as material support for KSPEU students:

• state academic;
• state social;
• state - graduate students, residents, assistants;
• scholarships of the President of the Russian Federation and scholarships of the Government of the Russian Federation;
• federal state - for graduate students and doctoral students;
• Registered;
• scholarships for students appointed by legal entities or individuals, including those who sent them to study;
• scholarships to students of preparatory departments in cases provided for by the Law on Education in the Russian Federation.

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision