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 rector 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.

Graduates of PSU continue to receive passports of universal competences. The passport of universal competencies is a document that shows the level of development of supraprofessional skills of each graduate. These are personal qualities that can not be done without in any profession – the ability to analyze information, leadership, teamwork, motivation and stress resistance. The passport of universal competences will become a valuable tool for a graduate of Pyatigorsk State University when looking for work and moving up the career ladder.

More than 1,500 students of Pyatigorsk State University have already passed the assessment of their competencies, including 66 graduates.

Passport of competences can be obtained by any graduate of our university, who will pass the assessment of universal competences in all basic and additional diagnostic tools on the presidential platform “Russia is a country of opportunities” within the framework of the project “Competence Centers”.

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