Volgograd State Institute of Arts and Culture, VGIK

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

The university was founded in 1999 in the city of Volgograd. This is one of the first institutions of the Russian Federation, which combines a children's school, a college and a university of arts.

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

The educational process is organized at the following faculties:

• Arts
• Socio-cultural activities,
• Artistic creativity,
• Distance learning.

The university conducts research activities in the following areas:

• A three-stage system of training future leaders of the choreographic team and teachers of choreographic disciplines,
• Modern trends in the development of fine and decorative arts,
• The specifics of creating an artistic image in the process of preparing a documentary,
• Folk art culture of the region Folklore of the Don Cossack song tradition,
• Theory, methodology and organization of socio-cultural activities Theory and methodology,
• Modern Holiday Culture: Traditions and Innovation,
• Library Science, Bibliography and Bibliology,
• Innovative technologies for teaching choreography in higher education,
• Modern problems of historical and theoretical musicology. Problems of musical content,
• Creation of a sound image in cultural performances and concert programs.

The university conducts international cooperation with the following organizations:

• Juseong College,
• New Conservatory (Greece),
• Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts,
• Fergana Regional Branch of the State Institute of Arts and Culture of Uzbekistan,
• University of Cologne,
• Cologne University of Music and Dance,
• Cologne University of Applied Sciences,
• Eurasia Global Connecting Agency,
• Robert Bosch Foundation in Russia,
• WONDA Film Company,
• Mediaaid Bangladesh,
• Marie Curie-Skłodowska University,
• Casimir the Great University,
• Sorbonne University,
• Carl Bo University of Urbino.

For nonresident full-time students, the university provides a dormitory for 155 places.

For meals for students and staff, the university has a canteen for 16 seats.

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

• Concert "To the heights of skill and inspiration",
• All-Russian Festival of Traditional Culture "Day of Russia on the Turquoise Katun",
• Meeting with film director Mikhail Koshchin,
• Concert of guitar students,
• Regional Forum "We Change Cities",
• Chamber Music Concert "Sonata Allegro",
• Concert "And the heart burns and loves again",
• All-Russian Concert-Festival of Folk Art,
• Competition "Memory is stronger than time",
• Round table "To Pushkin through time and space",
• Open meeting with director V. G. Milkov-Tovstonogov,
• Poetic challenge "I want to proclaim love as a country",
• Round table "The role of libraries in the formation of the civic position of young people",
• All-Russian competition of student scientific works and scientific and creative projects "The Path to Science",
• All-Russian Forum "Battle of Masters".

The educational process is carried out in 3 educational buildings, equipped with classrooms for lectures, seminars and practical work. The classrooms are equipped with the necessary modern equipment: projectors, screens, computers and electronic boards.

Students are given free access to the scientific library with a reading room for 48 seats.

For sports, the university offers:

• Shooting electronic shooting range,
• Gym
• Stadium.

At VGIK, 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 university, you must provide the following list of documents:

• 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.
• 2 photos 3x4.

The necessary package of documents is provided to the university:

• By mail,
• In person to the admissions office,
• In electronic form through an electronic information system,
• Through EPGU.

At the moment, more than 800 people are studying at VGIK.

After graduating from the institute, graduates become qualified specialists in the field of culture and art.

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

• Completed education not lower than secondary general,
• Points for entrance examinations conducted by the university independently, not lower than 60:
  • Professional test,
  • Creative challenge,
  • Interview.
• Points received for the exam are not lower than:
  • Russian language — 40,
  • Literature — 40,
  • Social Studies — 45,
  • History — 45.

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.

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