Ivanovo State University

rdf:langString Ivanovo State University

rdf:langString Ивановский государственный университет

rdf:langString Ivanovo State University

rdf:langString Ivanovo State University

rdf:langString Ivanovo

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rdf:langString Ивановский государственный университет

rdf:langString Aleksey Malygin

rdf:langString Ivanovo State University (Russian: Ива́новский госуда́рственный университе́т) or IvSU (Russian: ИвГУ) is in Ivanovo, about 300 km east of Moscow, Russia. The university was founded in 1918; before 1974 was called Ivanovo State Pedagogical Institute. IvSU has accreditation and license from the Russian Ministry of Education. It is a member of Euroasian association of universities and Russian Association of Classical Universities, co-operates with educational institutions of Germany (Passau University and the Berlin Technical University), Sweden (University of Uppsala), Denmark (Aarhus University, Institute of Business and Technology in Herning) and China (Xiangtan University) among many others. It was in the 1960s that programs aimed at training students from socialist countries began to be offered to international students. There was a separate Department of Russian as a Foreign Language established in 1982 in order to prepare international students to study in Russia. This university was the first in the region to offer degrees outside the Soviet system, offering degrees in economics in 1976, law in 1962, sociology in 1999, and applied programming in 1999. IvSU has different types of programs from traditional five years specialist degree to four years bachelor's degree and two years master's degree following the modernization of Russian education system and Bologna Process. Also, the university has 10 specialized councils that grant the degree of Kandidat Nauk as well as postgraduate degree of Doktor Nauk in the fields of history, technical science, linguistics, philosophy and economics.