Pskov State University

Pskov State University (PskovSU) is one of the 33 key regional universities in Russia. It is located in the city of Pskov - one of the oldest Russian cities, just an hour ride from the Russian border with Latvia and Estonia (European Union).

The university serves is a center of academic activity, which empowers educational, cultural, and scientific life in the Pskov Region.

Pskov region has a unique geographical location sharing borders with 3 states (Estonia, Latvia, and Belarus). It is a strategic center for cooperation between Russia and the European Union (especially the Baltic region countries).

Pskov State University offers studies at:

• Institutes:
  • The Institute for Medicine and Experimental Biology
  • The Institute for Engineering Sciences
  • The Institute for Mathematical Modelling and Game Studies
  • The Institute for Humanities and Language Communication
  • The Institute for Law, Economics and Management
  • The Institute for Education and Social Sciences
• PskovSU College
• The Institute for Lifelong learning
• Center for the Russian Language and Culture (has made it to the Top-13 in Russia)

PskovSU is aiming at integration into the global educational space via domestic and international mobility of students and faculty; it has numerous cooperation agreements with foreign universities and has implemented more than 30 large-scale international projects over the past 5 years.

The University’s main objective is to empower the region's economy by enhancing the higher education programs and additional professional programs in the field of business and economy; to align the educational programs with European standards and the needs of the labour market in the Pskov region and beyond.