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 launched an additional professional development program “From Science to Business: Development of Technological Entrepreneurship in Universities”, which was attended by more than 80 people from 22 universities of the North Caucasus Federal District.

The program is conducted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Skolkovo Foundation.

Welcoming the participants, PSU Rector, Professor A.P. Gorbunov noted that the program will raise the development of innovation-technological entrepreneurship in the universities of the North Caucasus to a higher level.

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