TUITION

The Preparatory Department works for the foreign citizens coming to DSTU to study the Russian language and common natural sciences. The whole course of study at the Preparatory Department takes a year. The Russian language Courses are also available at DSTU.

DURATION OF PROGRAMS OFFERED

Academic degrees or diplomas awarded

Training duration

Bachelor of science (B.Sc.) 4 years

Engineer (Specialist) 5 years

Master of Science (M.Sc.) 2 years more after Bachelor's degree award

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) 3 years more after Master's or Specialist`s degree award

Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) 3 years more after Master's or Specialist`s degree award

POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION

Don State Technical University trains scientific specialists at post-graduate and Doctorate courses.

The post-graduate courses for the future Ph.D. and D.Sc. degree specialists include more than 20 specialities (follows).

There are six thesis defense councils on 13 specialities at our university.

SIENTIFIC ACTIVITY AND RESEARCHES

Don state technical university is a powerful scientific center of the North-Caucasus region. DSTU embraces scientific schools of 6 directions:

• physics and mathematics; technics; economics; history; philosophy; pedagogy.

The most important scientific researches, which are being carried out in DSTU.

The most essential task of the scientific, experimental, developmental work and researches is to bind together the university science and manufacture. It is provided, on the one hand, through collaboration of DSTU with a number of industrial associations of region, in particular, through participation in the association “High technology”, which embraces large-scale industrial enterprises of the South of Russia and, on the other hand, through the activity of the South-Russian scientific training center of innovational business placed in DSTU.

Also, the regional departments of three professional academies operate on the basis of DSTU: the International academy of science, ecology and life safety, Russian academy of technological sciences and Russian academy of problems of quality.

Language work

II Students are divided into pairs.

Students A: you will be a journalist. Come up with questions on the text to take a kind of interview describing Don State Technical University.

Student B: you will be the representative of this university (a student, one of the teachers, a dean, etc.) You will give an interview about the university.