Smolensk Regional Cossack Institute of Industrial Technologies and Business, SKIPTB

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

The university was founded in 1996 in the city of Vyazma, Smolensk region.

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

The educational process is organized in the following departments:

• System automation and information technology,
• Food, Entrepreneurship and Economics Technologies,
• History of the Cossacks and social sciences and humanities.

The institute conducts research activities, in which the following thematic scientific associations of students are distinguished:

• Club "Programmer",
• Circle "Web-programming" and "Web-design",
• Circle "Economist",
• Circle "Successful Manager",
• Club "Humanitas",
• Circle "Automation and automatic control systems",
• Circle "Cuisines of the peoples of the world".

At the institute there is a museum of the history of the Cossacks in the Smolensk region, which is the only museum on the theme of the Cossacks in the region.

For meals for students and staff, the university has a buffet for 30 seats.

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

• Student Spring,
• International Scientific Conference "Unity of the Front and Rear during the Great Patriotic War",
• Cossack competitions based on the books of Andrei Belyanin,
• Open Festival of Cossack Culture,
• Flanking competitions,
• Open Championship in the art of owning a checker.

The education process takes place in a single building, equipped with classrooms for lectures and seminars, practical and laboratory work. The classrooms are equipped with modern technology: screens, projectors and computers. Students are given free access to a library with a reading room, the scientific and educational fund of which contains more than 80,000 publications.

For sports, the university has a gym, which is equipped with the following equipment:

• Gymnastic walls,
• Volleyball and basketball balls,
• Gymnastic mats and benches,
• Volleyball net,
• Basketball hoops,
• Tennis table,
• Darts.

At SKIPTB, the academic year 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).

Additional expenses:

• Transport
• Nutrition
• Leisure and recreation.

For admission to SKIPTB, 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),
• SNILS,
• Reference 086-U.

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.

The necessary package of documents is provided to the university:

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

At the moment, about 200 students are studying full-time bachelor's degree.

After completing their studies, students become qualified specialists in the production field. To help graduates find work and internships, the university has a department of employment and practice at SKIPTB.

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

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

The following types of scholarships are distinguished:

• State Academic,
• State social,
• of the President of the Russian Federation,
• Government of the Russian Federation.

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

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision