Let's figure out how to choose a university and specialty using the website's capabilities
On this page you will learn how to select a university online according to any criteria.
Our entire website is detailed information about all universities in Russia, presented in a convenient form. However, even in such a form as, for example, in, it is difficult to select specialties, compare them, etc.
SO THAT YOU DON'T HURRY, WE DEVELOPED A FILTER that will show a selection of universities and specialties in them according to all the criteria you need : geographical, by Unified State Exam subjects, by cost of training, form of education, specialties and much more.
In order to select educational institutions, you must either open the filter, or read the section where you will find the Unified State Exam calculator, you can select a profession:
IT’S ALL SIMPLE HERE: to choose a university online, you must indicate the selection parameters you need in the “Conditions”, “Specialties”, “Geography”, “Unified State Exam” tabs. It is not necessary to fill out everything and click on the red “SELECT” button. You are required to fill in only those fields that will affect the selection.
For example, you need universities1) full-time study
2) with the specialty "Jurisprudence"
3) in Moscow
4) for which the Unified State Exam requires Russian language, history, social studies
5) our Unified State Exam scores in these subjects are 215
Let's start opening the tabs one by one:
1) Conditions
In this tab, you can indicate the form of study, the cost of training per year (if it is not important, leave it as it is), the willingness to pass entrance examinations, the parameters of the university (only state, only with a military department, only with a dormitory).
2) Specialties
Here is a list of specialties. You can choose one or more specialties. If you do not fill in anything, the search will be performed in all directions.
3) Geography
Here you select the cities in which the search will be carried out. If empty, searches all.
4) Unified State Exam
Here we select the subjects that you are taking and the passing scores for them.
You can combine university selection online. For example, if you do not select a specialty/s, the search will be carried out in all, without selecting a city, you will launch a search in all cities, etc.
It is also important to note that all information about universities on the Internet is obtained from their websites and various sources. The best option is always to contact the university directly. Fortunately, we also have contact information for each university.
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List of educational programs in foreign universities
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Schoolchildren, it seems, have already passed the Unified State Exam and are about to go to apply to universities. Programming and IT technologies are in stable demand, much like legal and economic specialties were 10 years ago.
In this article I will tell you how higher education for IT works and how to choose the right IT specialty.
The article will be useful not only for 2015 applicants, but also for high school students who have already decided to connect their lives with IT.
Do you need to go to university to become a programmer?
There are many points of view on this issue and I am sure it will be raised more than once in the comments. In my humble opinion, higher education is not a prerequisite for becoming an IT specialist, nor is it a guarantee of this. But it can become a solid foundation for professional growth.You can read books, participate in the OpenSource community, work part-time on oDesk, and in a few years you will be an experienced developer, without a higher education. True, nothing prevents you from doing all this in parallel with your studies at a university, except your own laziness.
You can enroll, take tests and exams, get a diploma and not end up becoming a professional programmer - there are millions of such stories.
A good university provides, first of all, excellent conditions for gaining knowledge, experience, connections and growing as a person. And it’s up to you how you will use them (and whether you will use them at all).
Let’s assume that you have already decided to get a higher education in the IT field, and let’s move on.
Bachelor, specialist and master
Years have passed since the Ministry of Education decided to integrate Russia into the Bologna higher education system and much has changed. Previously, all IT workers could only obtain a specialist diploma. This year the last certified specialists graduated (with the exception of specialties where the training period is more than 5 years).
Now you can become a bachelor, after that a master, and then enter graduate school to obtain the Russian equivalent of a Ph.D.
What has really changed?
In the old curricula for “specialists,” the number of hours was cut for one year, while the most difficult disciplines were either removed or shortened. Many academic topics from the field of algebra, probability theory, and physics will remain uncovered by the teacher for the bachelor's degree. In a number of specialties where programming is an auxiliary competency (for example, information security), various programming technologies have come under the knife - from web development to parallel programming.
Otherwise, neither the theoretical material nor the teaching methods have changed. The volume of material has been reduced. If some university used to give laboratory tests for Pascal, they still do.
At the same time, master's curricula can boast of novelty. You can write about this separately if there is demand.
It must be taken into account that a bachelor’s degree is not a ready-made employee who can come to an employer with a diploma with honors and ask for the average salary in a hospital. A bachelor knows something, knows something about technology, but as a rule, does not know how to work in a team, a large group, or completely independently solve specific practical problems. In developer terminology, this is a Junior, promising to become a Middle Developer in 2-4 years. In many companies, such graduates without experience are offered internship programs with a mentor for 6-12 months.
Applied and Academic Bachelor's Degree
Of course, the fact that the specialty was simply reduced by 20% could not please the Ministry of Education. Few people can be pleased with an “under-specialist” who now knows even less. Therefore, starting from 2015, applied bachelor’s degrees will be introduced everywhere as an alternative to incomplete academic education.In short, the applied curriculum differs from the academic one in the new curriculum, where all disciplines are focused on producing an employee who is as ready as possible for real work tasks. No internships or other headaches for the employer. For example, from an academic bachelor’s degree a “mathematician-programmer” may come out, and from an applied bachelor’s degree “.Net Developer”, “Relational Database Developer” or “C++ Programmer”. The latter are more interesting to the labor market immediately after graduating from university, while the former, after graduating from a bachelor’s degree, must enter a master’s program and further develop their competencies in order to qualify for higher positions after graduation. Another useful thing is the participation of employers (as a practice base) and IT vendors in the applied bachelor's program.
Despite the fact that the idea, in my opinion, is sound and its implementation was started 5 years ago in 44 pilot universities, I have not yet met either qualitatively new educational materials or graduates ready for independent work. I assume that nothing will change in the next 2-3 years and there will be no significant difference in the preparation of academic and applied bachelor’s degrees. However, if you have already decided to pursue a master’s degree, go to the academic one; if after 4 years of study you plan to go to work and return to the master’s program “someday,” then apply to the applied one.
Teaching at a university
If they study at school, then they study at a university. And the difference here is huge. No one will force you to study. If you want to get a diploma, sit down, figure it out, ask your classmates. A teacher is simply a carrier of knowledge who knows how to explain this knowledge. His goal is to tell, yours is to understand. If you don’t understand something, the teacher still fulfilled his goal. Even if in some cases this is not the case, it is better to think in this paradigm, there will be less disappointment.
The quality of teaching lies precisely in how well the teacher conveys knowledge to you and what practical competence you gain from it. For example, you can convey the principle of OOP in the Delphi programming language, or you can use C# or Java. You will understand OOP in any case if you try, but familiarity with the C# or Java languages will be useful for you in the future, when preparing coursework, when working part-time or in future employment.
Teaching is an inert thing. The more a teacher teaches the same course using the same technologies as an example, the better he is able to convey knowledge to students. But IT technologies change too quickly, so two extremes are possible:
- the teacher reads to you something that is morally outdated, but you understand everything perfectly
- the teacher talks about the latest technologies, but you are left with large gaps in your understanding of something (if you do not fill them in on your own in books, on StackOverflow or MSDN, then it will remain so).
In addition to splitting bachelor's degrees into academic and applied ones, education standards are also being updated from the second generation to 3 and 3+. With so many changes in teaching, there is a risk that the next 2-3 sets of students will be less prepared than the next. This means you need to make more personal efforts.
When choosing a university and specialty, it is advisable to know Who and What will tell you. Before making your final choice, check with current students, read VK student groups.
Choosing a specialty
So, you decided to get a higher education and become a programmer. And not just a programmer, but, for example, a Web developer specializing in frontend. It’s great that at 18 you already have a goal in life, but I’m in a hurry to disappoint you. In our state there is such a thing as standards of higher education and they are much more abstract than you would like.The full list of higher education standards can be found here. Not all of them have generation 3+ standards yet, but they will by the end of the year. I recommend reading these boring documents.
Mathematical support and administration of information systems (MOAIS).
A specialty that provides the best conditions for developing developer competencies.You will study: programming technologies in various languages (usually in 4 years you will become familiar with at least three programming languages - for example: C++, C#, Lisp, or C++, Java, Python), development and basic administration of relational and object-oriented databases, network technologies , development of “client-server” applications, “client - application server - database server”, parallel programming.
Training gives an understanding of programming in principle; in a couple of months you can learn any programming language and develop in it; understanding how any program works and how to solve most computing problems. After receiving your diploma, you are a strong Junior, but as soon as you understand specific tasks and tools in a specific company, your knowledge base will be enough to qualify for Middle.
After work experience and a good master's degree in this specialty, you will be able not only to create programs and information systems, but will become familiar with the principles of developing high-load systems, team management, development planning, and will be able to apply for Senior and Team Lead.
Fundamental computer science and information technology (FIIT).
The specialty is close to MOAIS, but is focused on computational experiments and research problems.In other words, you'll be in top shape as a programmer, but you'll be nearly useless for solving practical business problems. But you are a valuable personnel for R&D departments, scientific laboratories and research teams. Studying in this specialty at a good university gives you the opportunity to choose a place of work around the world, working in well-known companies. It is already initially assumed that a bachelor's degree will be only the first step of your education.
A very real story: after receiving a bachelor's degree at Moscow State University, enrolling in a master's program at CalTech. Of course, physics, algebra and calculus should be your passion.
Informatics and computer technology (ICT)
The specialty is focused on training system programmers who work with hardware. You will have skills in programming robots, real-time systems, and working with a blowtorch. With such an education, you won’t want to develop boring accounting systems and web applications, but your future career can begin as a video surveillance engineer in a small private security company, or in a robotics laboratory of a large brand (of course, after completing a master’s program).In my opinion, that’s all with purely programming specialties. Below is a list of specialties that also teach programming. But if the specialties at the top have a curriculum designed so that they graduate as a Programmer, then the specialties below produce a Specialist in something with programming skills.
Not only a programmer
Software Engineering
A relatively new specialty that essentially trains software product managers. This specialist looks beyond development tasks, manages requirements, functionality, versions, and development teams. In the first years you will study programming technologies and, perhaps, a couple of languages, but later in the curriculum there will be more and more about software development management. You can start your career as a Junior Developer, but instead of further upgrading to Middle, you will become a project manager.Applied Informatics
Produces systems analysts with a broad outlook in IT and business. They also know how to program, but they are really good at writing technical specifications, formalizing business processes, and communicating effectively with developers who hover in high abstractions. You can become a project manager or even a director of your company if you have such ambitions.Business Informatics
It is very close to applied computer science, but the graduate’s managerial competencies are much stronger. You can be a consultant on the use of IT or manage the IT policy of a small holding. After receiving your diploma, you can start working even in support, but the career goal “IT Director” can be achieved in a matter of years.Information systems and technologies
Focus on information technology administration and the correct selection of software and hardware for the tasks of a corporate local network. There will be programming, but at a procedural level, closer to scripts and configuration files.Mathematics and Computer Science
A large portion of fundamental knowledge will allow you to work both as a computer science teacher at school and as an analyst in a large company. In a good university, this specialty gravitates towards scientific research and can also be a start in R&D for those who prefer mathematical sciences to physics.Information Security
The first course is often similar to specialties like MOAIS, where there is a lot of programming and in different languages, but then this stops. You don't have to write code, you have to understand how any code can be attacked. Networks and operating systems will be familiar to anyone else, you can call yourself a hacker, but you will have to work in the field of security, with regulatory documents, and not just with firewall and sniffer.It is important to understand that everything depends on the specific educational institution. This is like the HTML standard and its implementation on the website of a provincial beauty salon. There are universities where students of all specialties attend the same lectures. There are universities where MOAIS studies Visual Basic and Pascal, writes macros in Excel, and studies databases using Access as an example. If there is such a university in your hometown, then it’s time to buy train tickets.
The choice of specialty upon admission is extremely important, since it determines your future career and, perhaps, your whole life. This is essentially the first independent choice in life and the mistake will be measured in years. Therefore, it’s too early to “exhale” after the Unified State Exam; it’s time to find out as much as possible about the nearest university, its students and teachers. Good luck.
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Hello reader! You probably already realized that studying at university is a very important stage in life, which very accurately reflects a person’s future destiny. Higher education helps not only to find a job worthy of one’s qualifications, but also to gain respect from colleagues and superiors, as well as to rapidly move along the so-called “trade union line” and ensure a comfortable existence for oneself. However, for now all this is a dream, and the student, as you know, “lives from session to session.”
It is precisely this period “from session to session” that is worth talking about in more detail, since in the charter of any university it is called the “curriculum”. If you strictly follow all her recommendations, then problems with academic performance certainly should not arise.
Before talking about the features of the educational process, it is worth noting that curriculum is an action plan approved by the Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation, which allows you to determine the amount of knowledge and skills suitable for a particular course of study at the university.
To put it simply, it is clearly defined which segment of the program a student must complete in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth years. In accordance with the curriculum, teachers create syllabus, that is, they provide written information about what students will do in pairs in each course, what knowledge and skills they will receive, what new sciences they will become familiar with and in what depth.
So, to put it simply, the curriculum at a university is the boss, and the curriculum is his subordinate. That is why this type of reporting concerns not so much students as teachers, who, within the established time frame, must provide the expected volume of both theoretical and practical information proposed for study by university students.
In cases where the teacher realizes that he does not have time to “subtract his hours,” he organizes voluntary – forced pairings at odd times in order to quickly catch up on the material that was not covered on time.
Perhaps such scrupulousness is not important for the student, but the task of the teacher is to provide for study those topics that were approved by the curriculum at the beginning of the academic year. In general, this is very important, and this important issue should not be ignored.
Principles for creating a curriculum
As I already said, the curriculum at the university is approved by the Minister of Science and Education of the Russian Federation, and the curriculum is approved by the dean or head of the department. It immediately becomes interesting, by what principles is the selection of a program that many teachers of higher educational institutions honor as the charter and the second Constitution?
There are several evaluation criteria here, and let's discuss them in more detail:
1. Relevance of selected topics and subjects. Scientific and technological progress, however, as well as the achievements of science and culture, do not stand still; therefore, those topics in the curriculum that were relevant just a few years ago have today become “morally obsolete,” that is, unclaimed.
To understand what we are talking about, let me remind you of the immortal Lenin and the brilliant Karl Marx with his “Capital”. In the first case, our mothers and fathers knew the biography of this “people's favorite” by heart, and all the congresses of the CPSU in detail were absolutely mind-blowing (even if you wake up at night and ask).
As for Karl Marx’s “Capital,” I personally did not study this topic at school or university; and only a couple of pages were devoted to the life of Vladimir Ilyich in my history textbook. Now, I think it’s clear what “obsolete information” means.
2. Social education of students. Studying should not only be educational and compulsory, but also have a social connotation, that is, the material is selected so that the student learns something useful and vitally important from the information received, and does not leave the content of the subject “behind the scenes,” so to speak.
3. Development of creative abilities. Very often, a teacher says about some of his students: “They can’t see beyond their own nose.” In this case, we are not talking about poor vision at all, but about narrow-mindedness, lack of imagination and primitive thinking.
If a student does not know how to sort and apply the information received in class, then it is unlikely that he will become a competent and qualified specialist in the future. However, it is quite possible to learn this in five years; the main thing is to set a goal and approach the learning process responsibly.
4. Sequence of knowledge presentation. The curriculum is structured in such a way that the curriculum begins with simple and accessible information, but gradually becomes more complex and in-depth. Simply put, without knowing the multiplication table, you cannot solve examples of finding a discriminant, for example. I think the main idea in this case is clear.
5. Connection of subjects studied. The curriculum includes those subjects that are interconnected or logically complement each other. For example, it could be ecology, chemistry, biology; or psychology, sociology and science. In general, it turns out that a Russian student receives a comprehensive education, which cannot be said about foreign teaching methods, but more on that a little later.
Now it is clear what the school curriculum is and what points are important in its annual compilation or correction. As a rule, the curriculum at a university does not change fundamentally for many years, but every year it is supplemented with new facts and topics that, as we know, are relevant at the moment and keep up with the times.
Features of the domestic curriculum
This means that in September, after the holidays, they begin to spontaneously attend a number of lectures within the framework of their specialty, and then independently select for themselves those subjects that, in their opinion, are the most necessary.
No, of course, there is basic knowledge that you want or not, but you have to get it, but already in the second year, a student at an overseas university studies those topics that they consider the most necessary in their future profession.
You can also attend painting classes, literary and art clubs, but only for your own pleasure, or to consider yourself a comprehensively developed person. Such seminars are additional classes, but students are willing to go to university solely for the sake of attending them.
Now it’s clear why domestic specialists are so in demand abroad. The fact is that these are general workers who, while studying complex mechanisms, simultaneously write essays in business Russian classes, or conduct experiments in chemistry (in the first year).
Where an imported specialist will expect the help of another specialist, a domestic specialist will figure it out on his own; remember at least an episode from the immortal film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears”, during the conversation between Katya and the workshop manager about the breakdown of the machine.
How to build a curriculum correctly?
I found information online that the curriculum can be structured in two ways - concentric and linear. Although this information is more necessary for teachers, I still decided to figure out what these intricate terms mean. And here's what I dug up:
Concentric method- This is a systematic repetition of the material covered, but each time in a more in-depth form. As a rule, this technique is used in modern higher educational institutions, colleges and vocational schools. As practice over many years has shown, the method really works in practice, and has already allowed us to produce more than one excellent student (qualified specialist).
Linear method associates the curriculum with “links of one chain.” The teacher’s task is to consistently pay attention to each link, and proceed to the next one only after an in-depth study of the previous one.
In this case, the main emphasis is on logic, which connects all the links in one chain. This method of curriculum creation works best in schools, but can also be used in other educational settings.
In conclusion, we can only add that it is not the students who set the curriculum, and it is not their place to abolish it or ignore it. If you come to study at a university, be so kind as to follow all the rules that exist within its walls, which have been working here for a long time and have been honed to the point of automaticity. But initiative, arrogance and systematic violation of the rules are definitely not welcome here!
Conclusion: In the article I presented, I told in detail to all interested students and not only what a university curriculum is, who invented it, and how it is compiled correctly in practice.
The topic is important, the topic is necessary, especially when there are still five long years of hard study ahead! On the pages of the site, the site succinctly presents all the information on a given topic, so in the future no one should have any more questions.
Now you know too what is the curriculum at the university, and how important it is for successful learning.