General Information

1. InternationalAspects of Educational and Research Activities

International cooperation is an integral part of the activity of Ufa State Petroleum Technological University. The main objective of the international activities is the generation of strategic and tactical solutions to enhance the university’s international prestige on the basis of the unity of educational, scientific and innovative activities in all divisions, the promotion of the university on the international market of educational services, scientific research and development.

Ufa State PetroleumTechnological University supports steady connections with many scientific and educational centers throughout the world. Being a member of the International Association of Universities, it has cooperation agreements with the universities, companies and enterprises of Europe, Asia and CIS countries. USPTU is making strenuous efforts to create a modern training system for foreign citizens and strengthen its position on the international market of educational services.

USPTU has been training international students for more than 30 years already. Since that time, more than 1,900 foreign citizens have becomeUSPTU graduates and have been suceesfuly employed in various areas of the oil and gas industry.

Currently, the university has 1,320 international students from 51 countries.The share of international students at USPTU is 7.4%. This makes USPTU ranking among thetop 30 universities of Russia.

The university’s international activity is developing in different directions: one of the leading areas is the provision of educational services to international students including the Russian pre-university program, Bachelor’s, Master’s, postgraduate and doctoral programs.

Another dynamically developing direction is academic mobility of students and teachers. Within student academic mobility programs, bilateral cooperation with international partner universities is being actively conducted, including semester-long training, included education, 2 + 3 program - based training, short-term internships and summer school programs (China, Kazakhstan, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Italy, Syria, Iraq).

International cooperation in the field of double degree programs is also successfully developing, as a result of which our students are awarded both USPTU and partner university degrees (Finland, Austria).

Academic mobility of the teaching staff is being implemented on the basis of the “Invited Professors” program when foreign professors are invited to USPTU to give lectures to its students. USPTU teachers also travel to international partner universities for lecturing there.

Another very important direction of USPTU international activities is the employment of international specialists at the university: the employment of foreign citizens - USPTU graduates within the program of highly qualified personnel training (postgraduate training). At present,the university has 7 such staff members.

International cooperation in the field of science and technology is developing in two major directions - rendering of research and engineering services on request of international oil and gas companies (Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Iran) and joint research projects with international partner universities (Austria, China, Kazakhstan, Belarus) within the international grant programs of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Federal Target Program “Research and Development”) and the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research (RFFR).

2. International Activities in the Area of Additional Professional Education

An important direction of the activities of Ufa State Petroleum Technological University is the development of international cooperation in the field of additional professional education of specialists in the oil and gas industry.

The main structural division of the University, engaged in advanced training and professional retraining of specialists, is the Institute of Additional Professional Education of USPTU (IAPE), founded more than 20 years ago.

Today the Institute is the biggest educational institution of additional professional education in the Republic of Bashkortostan and one of the leading ones in the Russian Federation.

Around 600 specialists and students from countries near and far abroad (Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Serbia, Cuba, Iraq and other countries) annually improve their skills and undergo professional retraining at the Institute. The Institute has developed and offers over 300 advanced training programs and over 70 professional retraining programs for all professional aspects of specialists in the fuel and energy complex.

USPTU carries out the following activitiesin the area of retraining and advanced training of specialists and students from countries near and far abroad:
• Training in accordance with the existing “basic” programs of advanced training
• Development and implementation of new custom programs of advanced training
• Training in accordance with professional retraining programs for the performance of a new type of professional activity or obtaining a new qualification.
• Conduction of short-term seminars.

For the implementation of the activities mentioned above, IAPE has created a flexible organizational and pedagogical environment, increasing the availability of training and allowing the implementation of additional professional educational services in accordance with specific customer requirements.This includes the following apects:
1. Wide range of forms of education (on-the-job, off-the-job (full time or part-time)).
2. Possibility to conduct training either at the premises of USPTU in Ufa, or in the customer’s territory.
3. Network forms of implementation of additional professional programs including those provided for training international specialists and students jointly with foreign universities (in particular, this is a form widely used by the Institute for professional retraining of specialists and students from the Republic of Kazakhstan).
4. Distance education technologies based on electronic educational-methodical complexes, distance learning system and on-line seminars (webinars).

The necessary quality of the educational services provided is ensured by the use of modern information technologies, highly qualified teaching staff (over 70% of them are Doctors of Sciences and Candidates of Sciences), as well as the quality management system operating at the Institute with the International Certificates (IQNet and CroCert) received.

The actual tasks and directions for the development of international activities of USPTU in the field of retraining and advanced training of foreign specialists and students are as follows:
1. To ensure the international recognition of USPTU certificates of advanced training and professional retraining of international specialists and students.
2. To provide more information on the opportunities for additional professional education at USPTU at international conferences, expos and in the media.
3. To expand the use of network forms of implementation of additional professional programs including those provided for training international specialists and students jointly with foreign universities.
4. Introduction of distance education technologies at the international level (on the basis of electronic educational-methodical complexes, distance learning system and on-line seminars).

3. Community and Cultural Activities

International students from more than 50 countries are being trained at USPTU, and all of them represent their own cultures, traditions and customs. For the purpose of social adaptation of international students, introduction of students to the values of traditional ethnic cultures, principles of tolerance and humanity, USPTU annually organises cultural and sports events with the participation of international students, suchas “Days of National Cultures”, “Party with USPTU International Families”, the Nowruz International Arts Festival, “International Africa Day”, Futsal World Cup among international students and many others.

USPTU is an active member of the Association of International Students in Russia. Our international students honourably represent their university and country at the sessions of the Association of Foreign Students and take winning prizes. One of the sessions of the Association of International Students in Russia is planned to be hosted by USPTU.

Cultural and sports events organized by the International Office

4. Reference Materials

4.1. The Number of International Students in the 2019-2020 Academic Year

4.2. Ufa State Petroleum Technological University (USPTU) International Student Statistics

4.2.1. Dynamics of change in the total number of USPTU international students from 2008 till 2020

4.2.2. Total numbers of the students of USPTU pre-university (Russian language) program from 2008 till 2020

4.2.3. Information on the number of international students - USPTU (UPI) graduates from 1990 till 2020

4.2.4. Information on the nationalities of international students – USPTU (UPI) graduates from 1990 till 2020

4.2.5. 84 foreign citizens from 17 countries completed their PhD and doctoral studies; 74 people successfully defended their PhD theses and 2 people – their doctoral theses.

4.2.6. USPTU’s International Partners