Michurinsk State Agrarian University

Michurinsk State Agrarian University is one of the oldest Russian agricultural institutions of higher education. It has become well-known due to its unique scientific research in the sphere of horticulture, as well as due to the training of qualified agricultural professionals. Michurinsk State Agrarian University used to be a Lawn-and-Garden Institute organized on the initiative of Ivan V. Michurin in 1931. In 1934 it was renamed Fruit-and-Vegetable Growing Institute, and in 1999 the institute was given a status of a university. About 40 thousand specialists in different branches of agriculture, working at agricultural and food production enterprises of the Russian Federation and abroad, have graduated from Michurinsk State Agrarian University since that time. Nowadays Michurinsk State Agrarian University:

• Offers the courses of professional training in 7 branches of agricultural science, leading to the Bachelor's or Master's degree;
• Provides 38 trade programs, 27 refresher courses and 6 professional retraining programs for agricultural specialists, as well as research and educational brainpower;
• Carries out a wide variety of fundamental and applied scientific researches;
• Improves the system of continuing education, which includes specially oriented courses at school, higher education, post-graduate studies, refresher and retraining courses;

Scientific research projects are conducted at the university in accordance with the national program "Agro-Industrial Complex Development", and the "Program of Fundamental and Priority Applied Researches in the Agro-Industrial Complex", aimed to provide the development of agriculture in the Russian Federation with the scientific basis. The university prepares scientific projects by request of some enterprises and institutions on the contractual basis. There are 9 main branches of science in the focus of the university researchers' attention: agriculture, economics, engineering, biology, chemistry, teachers' training, philology, sociology.

The scientists of the university pay great attention to the development of new varieties and vegetable growing technologies. Great emphasis is placed on the production of functional food aimed to help people sustain normal physiological parameters under the stressful conditions. Special systems of vegetable growing, storage and processing technologies for producing ecological ingredients for baby and diet food have been worked out. Much attention is given to biotechnological research. The university plays an important role in the development of the innovation program of Michurinsk as a scientific agricultural centre of the Russian Federation.

Michurinsk State Agrarian University welcomes you to a dynamic higher education institution. This guide will help you to find your way around in Michurinsk State Agrarian University and will offer vital information to any visitor. In MSAU you can expect a well-structured student counseling service, tailor-made courses and study programs, well supervised practical trainings and final projects, multiple contacts with trade and industry. The infrastructure (classrooms, laboratories, media centers) and facilities have been set up to provide an agreeable environment for study. Student participation in MSAU development has been a longstanding tradition.

Past century has brought the humanity not only the civilization achievement and outstanding new high technologies, it has given huge environmental pollution, production of low quality food, informational and emotional stress, which negatively affects people's health. These problems are especially acute today all over the world. Let us try to solve them together. Our university offers its students a wide range of courses in the sphere of crop growing and food production as well as in the field of agricultural management, rural sociology and life sciences. We do our best to enlarge our scientific achieves and to share our knowledge with students. In the nearest future we see our university as an important scientific research centre introducing innovative approaches to food production and agricultural management with a stable growth of students' number, wishing to make the world better.