Irkutsk State Linguistic University


Irkutsk State Linguistic University was a university in Irkutsk, Siberia in eastern Russia founded in 1948.
In 2016, it was integrated into Irkutsk State University as the newly created Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages and Media Communication
The university consists of two institutes and two independent faculties.

Academics

The university gives linguistic education from secondary school to university to post-graduate and post-doctoral research programmes.

License

A national license empowers the university to train professionals in 17 major areas at 10 faculties.

Institutes

Institute of Cross-cultural Communication
Oriental Languages Faculty teaches:
Translation and Translatology Faculty
International Faculty
Degrees:
The faculty offers post-graduate research programmes in Germanic and Romance philology.
Institute of Educational Technologies
English Language Faculty
Romance Languages Faculty
German Language Faculty
Humanities Faculty
Social Sciences Faculty
Education-by-Correspondence Faculty
'* Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication. The qualification granted is 'Linguist-translator of English/German'
Second higher education
ISLU offers the following higher education opportunities to holders of non-linguistic university qualifications:
Students and teachers as well as 'outsiders' who are interested in language learning and related areas are offered educational services including:
"Young Polyglot" language learners community;
Annually, more than 700 students use the opportunities of additional educational services at ISLU.
Irkutsk State Linguistic University is a site for international language proficiency exams such as Japanese Language Proficiency Test, Test of Proficiency in Korean.