Bashkir State Agrarian University, BSAU, – one of the oldest agricultural higher education institutions of Russia and a centre of education and research in the Bashkortostan Republic.
1993 – Bashkir Agricultural Institute got the status of university by Order of the Ministry of Science, Higher School and Engineering policy of the Russian Federation No. 23 of February 15, 1993.
2011 – Bashkir Institute of refresher courses and advanced professional training of personnel for agriculture was incorporated to the University.
2016 – Bashkir State Agrarian University became one of the top 15 agricultural higher educational institutions of Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.
University units
The University comprises eight departments, Institute of innovative development, Institute of further vocational education, an academic and methodological office, a research and education center, a scientific training center, an educational work management, an information support office and other structural divisions. Training at University is performed by 30 departments on multistage system – Bachelor's degree, specialist, Master's degree, postgraduate studies programs. Training process comes in internal, intra- and extramural as well as correspondence forms of education. There are 80 certified educational programs, including two publicly accredited educational programs on academic bachelor's degree. More than 62% of students are trained on agricultural majors. The basic University Infrastructure include 7 academic buildings with a total area of more than 145 thousand sq.m, where classroom and laboratory area constitutes 93,8 thousand sq.m, there are 8 hostels with a total area of 45,5 thousand sq.m. All premises are federal property and under day-to-day management of the University. There are 288 classrooms for 10040 seats, including 29 lecture halls, 108 classrooms for seminars and practicals, 123 laboratories and preparation rooms.
Science. Research schools and fields
Academic staff is trained at postgraduate and doctoral programs under license No. 1834 series AAA of September 1, 2012 on sciences highly demanded in agriculture. There are dissertation boards on 10 specialities of agricultural, biological, veterinary and engineering sciences. Annually University graduate students and staff defend 2-4 doctoral and 22-25 candidate theses. There are 15 research schools and 7 research fields headed by scientists known for their achievements outside the Republic. Scientific researches are carried out in 8 fields of science in the framework of the state scientific and engineering programs of the Science Academy of Bashkortostan Republic by grants of the Russian Foundations for basic research, humanities, small enterprise assistance in the scientific and engineering sphere, orders of farm enterprises, the Ministry of Agriculture of Bashkortostan Republic and other ministries. Annually the University academic staff participates in the work of more than 200 conferences and seminars, about 70 of them are of the international level. The University is a founder of small innovative enterprises that help to get profit from the results of scientific research.
