Samara State University of Economics

Samara State Economic University

Самарский государственный экономический университет
Type	public
Established	1931
Location	Samara , Russia
Campus	urban
Language	Russian

Samara State Economic University (Russian: Самарский государственный экономический университет) is a public university located in Samara, Russia. It was founded in 1931.

History

The University was established in 1931 by the Decree of the USSR Council of People's Commissars as the Middle Volga Planning and Economic Institute. During 1931-1955 the university trained economists-planners in two specialties: "Economics of Industry" and "Economics of Agriculture." The urgent need in the formation of new industrial and technical intellectuals at the rapid beginning of industrialization, associated with the unprecedented scale and pace of industrial construction, required the creation of an institute which would prepare economic personnel for the entire Middle Volga region (the region included: Samara, Ulyanovsk, Penza, Orenburg regions and Mordovia). This is how the Srednevolzhsk Planning Institute (now Samara State University of Economics) came into being.

In 1950-1970s the university opened new specialties: "Supply economics", "Labor economics", "Accounting", "Planning of national economy".

In the second half of the 1960's - beginning of the 1970's the University got its own campus with academic buildings, gymnasiums, a hostel and a food production facility. In 1970-1980 the Institute employed up to 200 full-time researchers, more than 100 part-time teachers, 200 postgraduate students.

In 1990s the institute went through a succession of organizational transformations and renaming: Samara Institute of Economics (1991) - Samara State Academy of Economics (1994) - Samara State University of Economics (2005).

At the beginning of the 1990s the number of specialties had increased and new faculties were opened. Besides five departments (industrial and economic, accounting and economic, financial and economic (opened in 1993), department of logistics economy (opened in 1993), agribusiness (opened in 1994) there were also opened the faculty of economics and law (opened in 1995, now the Institute of Law). The multilevel training of bachelors in "Economics" direction (1994) and "Socio-economic education" (2004) and masters (1999) in "Economics" direction was started.

The university prepares specialists in the following directions and specialties of social and economic sciences: 22 specialties, 13 directions of bachelor's degree, 5 directions of master's degree. Every year about 10 thousand students study at the university. 70% of the total number of the university teaching staff have academic degrees and titles, more than 500 teachers teach at the university.

Structure

• Institute of National and World Economy
• Institute of business economics
• Institute of Management
• Institute of Law
• Faculty of secondary vocational and pre-professional education
• Faculty of additional education
• Correspondence faculty