Novosibirsk State University

Новосибирский государственный университет ; Novosibirsk State University
founding	1959
Sponsorship	state
place	Novosibirsk / Akademgorodok Russia
Rector ( Ректор )	Mikhail Petrovich Fedoruk
Students	approx. 6500
Website	www.nsu.ru

Meeting in front of the main building for InterWeek 2006

The Novosibirsk State University - also the Novosibirsk State University and Novosibirsk State University from the Russian : Новосибирский государственный университет, Nowosibirski gossudarstwenny uniwersitet or short НГУ , NGU - is a Founded in 1959, Russian University in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk with more than 6500 students. Parts of the university are located in Akademgorodok .

Faculties

Faculty of Foreign Languages
Faculty of Geology and Geophysics
Faculty of Human Sciences
Faculty of Information Technology
Faculty of Journalism
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics , founded in 1961
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Science , founded in 1959
Faculty of Philosophy
Faculty of Physics
Faculty of Psychology
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Economics

research

The university, which was built up in a very short time, was considered one of the leading Soviet universities in the scientific and technical field due to its research activities in connection with the Siberian location of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Akademgorodok. In the 1990s, however, many researchers left the university and emigrated to the USA. The location has become more attractive again in recent years. Today research is mainly carried out in the following areas