Pyatigorsk State University (PSU)
Pyatigorsk State University (PSU)

The date of foundation of Pyatigorsk State University is considered to be June 27, 1939, when the Pedagogical School officially became a higher educational institution. Since then, the university has undergone various changes and transformations - an increase in the number of years of study, several renamings - and officially became known as Pyatigorsk State University in 2016. Since 2005, the head of the university is Professor Gorbunov Alexander Pavlovich. By 2009, 10 faculties were formed at the university. Further, on their basis, institutes and higher schools were created, having one of the faculties in their composition. In addition, PSU is actively developing the system of pre-university, postgraduate and additional education. It has a branch in Novorossiysk. Currently, the university has 34 departments. Now Pyatigorsk State University has more than 5,500 students and 3,000 students from different regions of Russia and foreign countries. All the peoples of the Caucasus are also represented in PSU.

PSU students are the winners of the Hackathon and startup competition at the Caucasus Investment Forum.

The forum gathered about 600 students, young entrepreneurs, experts from the business world and representatives of executive authorities. The participants discussed how to realize the potential of the young generation for the development of the regions and the country as a whole.

One of the central events was the Hackathon for the creation of youth projects - a competition to solve cases aimed at the development of industries and regions of the Caucasus. PSU teams performed well and won prizes at the Hackathon in the direction of “Education and Technology: New Horizons for the Caucasus”:

1st place: “Innovators of Education” - students of the Institute of Foreign Languages and International Tourism;

2nd place: “Avangard” - students of the Institute of Translation, Russian Studies and Multilingualism, the Higher School of Design and Architecture and the Institute of Foreign Languages and International Tourism.

At the forum the PSU team also took the second place in the Startup Competition, within the framework of which young people present their own ideas and projects in order to attract support and further realization.

2nd place: “ChinaBrand” - students of the Institute of Translation, Russian Studies and Multilingualism.

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