Oryol State University
Орловский государственный университет (ОГУ) | |
Established | 1931 |
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Rector | Fyodor Stepanovich Avdeev |
Location |
Oryol, Russia 52°57′04″N 36°03′50″E / 52.95111°N 36.06389°ECoordinates: 52°57′04″N 36°03′50″E / 52.95111°N 36.06389°E |
Website | http://www.osu.com.ru |
Oryol State University (Russian: Орловский государственный университет; Orlovskiy gosudarstvenniy universitet; OGU or OSU), formerly Oryol State Pedagogical Institute/University, is the university in Central Russian city Oryol. OSU opened in 1931 as Industrial-Pedagogical Institute. Today OSU is a member of Association of the Classical Universities of Russia.
Origins
Officially, the Oryol State University was founded in 1931 with the establishment of Orel Industrial-Pedagogical Institute (Орловский индустриально-педагогический институт). But even in 1918 in Oryol opened Lenin Oryol Proletarian University (Орловский Пролетарский университет имени В. И. Ленина), which includes 5 departments: Department of Natural Sciences, Department of Health, Department of Humanities, Mathematical and Agronomical Departments.
In 1932 it was renamed to Oryol State Pedagogical Institute (Орловский государственный педагогический институт; ОГПИ), and in 1993 - to the Oryol State Pedagogical University (Орловский государственный педагогический университет; ОГПУ). In 1996 OSPU received the status of a classical university and renamed to the Oryol State University.[1]
Departments
There are 17 faculties in OSU and 2 institutes:
- Faculty of Physics and Mathematics
- Faculty of Philosophy
- Faculty of Technology, Business and Service
- Faculty of Philology
- Faculty of History
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Economics and Management
- Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Faculty of Foreign Languages
- Graphic arts faculty
- Faculty of Documents and Academic Education
- Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology
- Faculty of Social Pedagogy and Social Work
- Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports
- Faculty to work with international students
- Faculty of Pre-University Training
- Faculty training and retraining of specialists
- Medical Institute
- Institute of Aesthetic Education
Degree mill
According to the investigation by Dissernet the university has awarded numerous (>85) degrees based on heavily plagiarised theses.[2]
References
- ↑ "ГОУ ВПО ОГУ (Overview)" (in Russian). Oryol: OSU. 2008. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
- ↑ http://rosvuz.dissernet.org/vuz/55610
External links
- (Russian) Official site of Orel State University
- (English) Information about OSU