Full name

The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia

Location

St.Petersburg

Department belonging

The Ministry of General and Professional Education of the Russian Federation=20

Address

48 Moika Embankment, St. Petersburg, 191186 Russia

Established in

1797

Rector

Bordovsky Gennadi Alexeevitch, Telephone: +7 (812) 311 6088

Coordinator for foreign   citizen's admission

Shilov Sergei Mikhailovitch, Telephone: +7 (812) 314 7859 E-mail address: ssm@herzen.spb.ru

Fax

Facsimile: +7 (812) 314 7654=20

WWW-server

http://www.herzen.spb.ru

Quantity of students

Over 18000

Quantity of foreign students

About 100 full-time and 500 short-term foreign students studying yearly.

Faculties

Faculties/Colleges of: Anthropological Philosophy; Biology; Chemistry; Communicative Disorders; Economics; Far North Peoples; Fine Arts; Foreign Languages; Geography; Life Safeguarding; Mathematics; Music; Philology; Physical Culture; Physics; Preschool Education; Primary Education; Psychology and Pedagogics; Russian and a Foreign Language; School Management; Social Sciences; Technology and Management.

Number of chairs

Over 100

Documents required

High School Certificate equivalent to the Russian High School Certificate along with its notarized translation in Russian a certificate of completing a Preparatory University Course in Russian (for those having a low level in Russian)

Enrolment period

Before September 1, to be submitted to the International Office.

Specialities

In the Field of Higher Pedagogical Education: Natural Sciences; Humanities; Social and Economic Sciences; Professional Education; Pedagogics; Fine Arts; In the Field of Science: Physics; Chemistry; Economics. In the Specialties: Mathematics; Computer Science; Physics; Chemistry; Biology; Geography; Philosophy; Psychology; History; Law; Sociology; Politology; Culturology; Physical Culture and Sports; Life Safeguarding; Economics; National Economics; Social Management; Technology and Management; Musical Education; Fine Arts and Technical Drawing; Preschool Pedagogics and Psychology; Pedagogics and Methods of Primary Education; Social Pedagogics; Teaching the Blind; Teaching the Deaf-mute; Teaching Mentally Handicapped; Correction of Speech Disorders; Special Psychology; Corrective Pedagogics and Special Psychology (Preschool); Philology: the Russian Language and Literature, Russian as a Foreign Language, Foreign Languages, National Language and Literature; Fine Arts Studies; Pedagogics and Methods of Preschool Education; Pedagogics and Psychology of Higher Education; Pedagogics and Psychology of High School Education.

Period of education

Bachelor's Course - 4 years; Teacher in Specialty - 5 years; Master's Course - 6 years (Bachelor's Course inclusive).

Terms

Fall Semester (September - January), Spring Semester (February - June).

Entrance examinations: subjects, forms, including  test (Russian as Foreign language)

Russian, Interview.

Period of entrance examinations

June through August.

Expenses

Depending on the Faculty/College for 1 year of studies: $1100-2200 full-time; $360-1100 part-time.

Courses taught in other languages

Philology, Sociology, Chemistry, Physics.

Additional department (subjects, duration, beginning, expenses)

10 months, 24 hours a week of studies in a group of 6-8 students. Subjects in Russian: Speech Practice: Vocabulary; Writing; Practical Grammar; Practical Phonetics; Scientific Style in Speech; Linguistic and Country Studies; Classes in a Chosen Specialty. Duration: from September 1 till July 1. Cost: $1300.

Necessary documents about education and other documents

Notarized copies of Master's Degree Certificates or documents certifying the level of Higher Education, an abstract from the Academic Transcript showing the names of completed courses/subjects and academic progress/grades.

State test (Russian as Foreign language)

State Testing in the command of Russian.

Period of tests

Year round (10-15 days before assumed date of entering a postgraduate course).

Specialities

Physics and Mathematics: Mathematical Analysis; Differential Equations; Geometry and Topology; Mathematical Logic, Algebra and Theory of Numbers; Calculus; Theoretical Physics; Physical Electronics; Solid State Physics; Physics of Semiconductors and Dielectrics. Chemistry: Inorganic Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Physical Chemistry. Biology: Botany; Zoology; Human and Animal Physiology; Genetics. Engineering: Informational Systems and Processes. History: History of Russia; General History; History of Science and Engineering. Economics: Political Economics. Philosophy: Ontology and Cognitive Theory; Aesthetics; Ethics; Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy of Science and Engineering; Social Philosophy. Philology: Russian Literature; Literature of Nationalities of the Russian Federation; Literature of Peoples of Europe, America and Australia; Russian Language; Languages of Nationalities in Russian Federation; Germanic Languages (English); Germanic Languages (German); Roman Languages. Geography: Physical Geography; Economic and Social Geography; Environmental Geography and Rational Usage of Natural Resources. Pedagogics: General Pedagogics; Theory and Methods of Teaching Mathematics; Theory and Methods of Teaching Computers; Theory and Methods of Teaching Physics; Theory and Methods of Teaching Chemistry; Theory and Methods of Teaching Biology; Theory and Methods of Teaching History; Theory and Methods of Teaching Literature; Theory and Methods of Teaching Russian; Theory and Methods of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language; Theory and Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages; Theory and Methods of Teaching Geography; Theory and Methods of Teaching World Artistic Culture; Theory and Methods of Teaching Russian in Primary School; Theory and Methods of Teaching Music; Theory and Methods of Teaching Fine Arts; Communicative Disorders Pedagogics (Teaching the Blind); Communicative Disorders Pedagogics (Teaching the Deaf-mute); Communicative Disorders Pedagogics (Teaching Mentally Handicapped); Communicative Disorders Pedagogics (Correction of Speech Disorders); Theory and Methods of Physical Culture, Sports Training and Health Restoring Physical Culture; Theory and Methods of Upbringing (in the fields of different activities); Theory and Methods of Preschool Education; Theory and Methods of Professional Education. Arts: Music; Fine and Applied Arts and Architecture; Theory of Arts. Psychology: General Psychology, History of Psychology; Social Psychology; Pedagogic Psychology; Corrective Psychology (Teaching the Blind); Corrective Psychology (Teaching the Deaf-mute); Corrective Psychology (Teaching Mentally Handicapped); Psychology of Personality; Developmental Psychology. Social Sciences: Theory, Methodology and History of Sociology; Social Structure, Social Institutions and Processes; Sociology of Spiritual Life. Culturology: Theory of Culture; Historical Culturology.

Period of education

3 years - full-time; 4 years - correspondence.

Initial conditions (list of publications, essay, reprint)

List of reprints (if any). Report/essay on the topic of the applicant's thesis.

Cost of education

$6000 - whole course of tuition; $2000-2500 - preparation and procedure of reading the thesis/dissertation.

Additional department (subjects, dates, beginning of the study, cost)

A period of training in the field of research (if desirable). A course of Russian is necessary if the applicant has a bad command of Russian. Cost of training is $250 a month (that includes 10 counseling sessions with the scientific advisor). Duration of training is 1 - 10 months. Cost of 1 academic hour (45 minutes) of individual instruction in Russian is $10 (the number of necessary hours is defined after testing). Classes and training can start at any time throughout the year.

Period of teaching and quantity of foreign students in the institute

Since 1972 over 2000 foreign full-time students have graduated. Since 1947 several thousands have attended courses of Russian, about 500 people annually nowadays. Over the last 20 years about 200 postgraduate students have graduated.

Accommodation

Student dormitories within 30 minutes by city transport from the academic campus. Accommodation in 2-bed rooms costs about $2 per person a day. A hotel for foreign students right in the city center (next to the major University campus). Accommodation costs $10-40 a day depending on the type of room. Renting a single-room flat in the city is about $120-150 a month.

Sport, rest and medical insurance

There is a canteen, several cafes, a sports center with training equipment, a student club, a disco on the student campus. There is a library (among the oldest and biggest University libraries in Russia) in the central building. Each Faculty/College has a library of its own. Medical insurance policy costs $65 yearly.

The institute can offer foreign students:

Practically each Faculty/College and main divisions of the University have access to Internet. The University has the Center for Distance Education - a specialized server containing a bank of materials on education and related topics linking hundreds of school teachers and University lecturers in the North-West of Russia in a teleconference and processing related materials from major educational net conferences over the world. Several specialized classes can be used for group teaching using modern Internet facilities.

Additional information

In May 1997 the University celebrated its bi-centenary. Starting from a founding hospital, then a female orphanage, it grew into the Imperial Women Pedagogical Institute, Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute and finally got a University status. For the whole period of its development the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia has integrated more than 30 educational and scientific institutions and accumulated in itself enormous theoretical and practical potential of education of Russia. The teaching staff numbers more then 1500 people. Five Academicians and 14 corresponding members of the Russia's Academy of Sciences and of the Russia's Academic Society, more than 30 Honored Scientists, People's and Honored Artists, 146 full and more than 600 associate professors work in the University. There are 24 Academic councils, every year more than 120 doctoral theses are defended. The University includes many faculties/ colleges which are unique for Russia, such as the Far North Peoples' Faculty, the Anthropological Faculty, the Faculty of Educational Management - the only department in Russia training professional school managers. The University's library possesses a unique collection which includes some books of the 11th century and rare publications of the 18th- 20th centuries, it numbers more than 2 million books. The colleges and departments of the University cooperate with the universities and scientific centers in Germany, France, the UK, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, China, Israel, Hungary, the USA, Hong Kong and in other countries. Every year hundreds of scientists from dozens of countries come to Herzen to take part in international conferences. On the other hand, hundreds of teachers and students of the University go abroad every year to take part in different scientific and educational programs. The University offers different programs in Russian Language, History and Culture accompanied by a number of tours of historic, cultural places in the city, city suburbs and other towns in the region. The main University campus is situated in the very center of the old St. Petersburg within 5-15 minute walk of the major historic and cultural places of the city. The buildings constructed by famous architects form a beautiful ensemble along granite Moika Embankment, which was included into the list of world heritage objects by UNESCO in 1990. The hotel for foreign students is in the same building as the Faculty of Russian as a Foreign Language, just behind the great Kazan Cathedral on Nevsky prospect.