FEFU, whose faculties and specialties are the most in demand in the Far East, has graduated a huge number of first-class specialists over its long history. Over the 116 years of its existence, the Oriental Institute has managed to become a university of federal significance, its graduates are in demand all over the world.
History of the university
In 1899, FEFU, whose faculties and specialties today are of interest to many applicants throughout Russia and beyond, was opened under the name Oriental Institute. Then the teaching staff was recruited from graduates who had undergone long-term internships abroad. Thanks to this, the university began to play a vital role for the developing region at that time.
In 1920, the then institute was merged with a number of private universities and began to be called the State Far Eastern University. In 1930 and 1939, the university was closed for ideological reasons, but later reopened. As of 1956, it was called the Far Eastern State University and consisted of five faculties.
The university actively continued to develop, by 2009 it included about 50 representative offices and branches, some of them are located abroad. This was precisely the reason for joining a number of local universities to FENU and creating a single one. This is how FEFU (Vladivostok) was formed, which in 2013 opened its doors to everyone.
How to proceed?
To enroll in this university, you will need to submit a number of standard documents: a copy and original of your passport, certificates of passing the Unified State Exam, a copy and original of your secondary education certificate, and also fill out an application form for admission to the university. If a potential student has not passed the Unified State Exam, he has the right to take it during the entrance exams at the university, but the admissions committee must be notified about this in advance.
If a potential student has any documents that give him an advantage upon admission or simply testify to his talents, they must also be presented to the admissions committee. Despite the fact that the decision on admission is mainly made based on the scores scored by the applicant, the admissions committee may give priority to the applicant who offers to get acquainted with his talents.
University departments
If a potential student intends to apply to FEFU, whose departments are famous for their professionalism, he must decide on the choice of specialty. In total, the university has 25 departments, to one of which the new student will be assigned in the future as a graduate student. The departments of oil and gas and petrochemistry, instrument engineering, as well as architecture and urban planning are especially popular.
At each of them, scientific developments are constantly underway; professors hold scientific councils, where not only student work is discussed, but also the latest publications on professional topics. Scientific supervisors constantly offer students opportunities for development in the form of writing publications and attending scientific meetings and other events in their specialty.
The university invites you to visit!
Every year the university holds an open day; FEFU strives to show future applicants what exactly awaits them if they enroll. As a rule, this event is held in March-April; these dates were not chosen by chance, because most school graduates at this time begin to choose their future place of study.
Students usually prepare a large presentation, which describes in detail about the university, its history and development prospects. Potential students, together with their parents, can ask all the necessary questions to the university teachers, as well as to the students present. The event is also usually attended by one of the members of the admissions committee to provide all the information applicants need for admission.
FEFU Engineering School and its developments
Not long ago, a completely new technical direction appeared - “Mechatronics and Robotics”, which is a set of basic dogmas of three sciences: computer science, electronics and mechanics. Specialists studying it are trying to understand how automation can help the development of several sciences at once, while maintaining its own significance and independence.
According to UNESCO, this specialty is one of the most in demand in the world, and without it any technical progress is impossible. All university graduates in this specialty have the right to work as engineers, programmers, develop artificial intelligence, and also conduct research activities.
University branches
Not everyone has the opportunity to move to Vladivostok in order to study at FEFU; in this case, branches are the most suitable options. In total, there are nine divisions of the university, all of them are located in the Far Eastern Federal District, which makes it easier for potential students from the outback.
The branches in Ussuriysk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Nakhodka are especially popular. Some students find it much easier to get to these cities than to Vladivostok, where the main buildings of the university are located. Branches in Arsenyev, Artyom, Bolshoy Kamen, Dalnerechensk, Dalnegorsk and Spassk-Dalniy are also completely filled with newly minted students by the beginning of the academic year.
University faculties and specialties
FEFU, whose faculties and specialties differ significantly from other universities, has developed its own concept for naming them. The faculty here is called a school, and within them there are specialties that are successfully mastered by students. Each branch also bears the proud name of a school, while within one branch there are not so many specialties offered compared to the main division of the university.
The most popular faculties include the Law School, the School of Arts, Culture and Sports, the School of Economics and Management, and the School of Regional and International Studies. This is where future applicants rush to get most often, believing that these are the skills that will be most useful to them in the future.
Extracurricular activities
In addition to their main responsibilities, FEFU students actively take part in the extracurricular life of their faculties and the university as a whole. Students of the educational institution have repeatedly become prize-winners of KVN competitions, as well as regional winners of the student spring competition, which are held in universities every year.
Among other things, the university also has extracurricular organizations, in particular, a trade union committee that helps students resolve issues with scholarships, dormitories and other individual issues. Anyone can become a member of the trade union committee; to do this, simply go to the organization with a student ID.
Warfare
FEFU (Vladivostok) has its own, which trains future personnel reserves for the army. All students at this center automatically receive a deferment from the army for the period of training, and after its completion, they receive the rank of lieutenant and the specialty of engineer.
The training lasts according to the standard - five years, after which the graduate of the center receives a diploma and has the right to continue his studies, and can also go to serve in the army in the received rank. Many graduates of the center today serve in the army as engineers, receiving additional bonuses annually for good work.
Information about the university
Far Eastern Federal University is an operating university in the city of Vladivostok. FEFU is a federal university and has a huge history of its development. The university trains many specialists in various fields; in total, about 24 thousand students of different specialties study at the university. Since 2009, training has been provided on the basis of more than 600 programs. In addition, every year 500 graduate students are trained here, who in the future can remain at their home university as teachers. The rector of the university is Sergei Vladimirovich Ivanets.
History of the emergence of FEFU
The history of FEFU begins back in 1899. Then, on October 21, the first higher education institution in the entire East of Russia was opened in Vladivostok. Then it was called the Oriental Institute. At that time, this institute was a real discovery and a “start to life” for many young people. Many came here to get the desired higher education, which has been highly valued for a long time. At that time, this institute had an excellent library, which not every educational institution could boast of. After 21 years, the Oriental Institute merged with a couple of private educational institutions and renamed the State Far Eastern University. The status of a university allowed the institution to open three different faculties.
The history of this establishment is not very simple. It was closed several times due to unstable political actions in the country, but after some time it started working again. In 1956, the State Far Eastern University opened two additional faculties. In 2009, a special event occurred that opened a new page in the history of FEFU. Just like 110 years ago, the institution received a “new life”, since by order of the President of the Russian Federation, the University acquired federal status and united 4 higher educational institutions in the east of the country.
FEFU today
Today, FEFU is one of the most popular educational institutions in the East. According to statistics, it is very popular among young people. The peculiarities of the university are that its structure is slightly different from similar institutions. If in a standard university the structure usually looks like this: “institute-faculty-department”, then at the Far Eastern Federal University they adhere to a different point of view and here the structure looks like this: “school-department”. This structure allows you to start preparing for higher education literally “from the cradle.” The structure also includes kindergartens, choreographic schools, many schools and lyceums.
The university employs about one and a half thousand teachers, among whom are:
- PhDs;
- Doctors of Science;
- professors;
- academics.
More than a thousand teachers have some degree. In total, the university employs about five thousand employees, who every day make the Far Eastern Federal University even better.
The modern construction of the FEFU infrastructure, which began back in 2008, today is simply colossal in size. Here you will find not just one hostel, but eleven. A modern gym, swimming pool, tennis courts, embankment - this is only a small part of what is available to university students. There are forty-nine undergraduate programs that train future specialists. They study on the basis of ninety training programs. Fourteen training programs are used to prepare masters, and sixty-four programs are used in postgraduate and doctoral studies.
FEFU offers various forms of training:
- Full-time education;
- extramural studies;
- evening course.
Full-time education means attending classes every day, except weekends. Part-time study allows you to combine study with work or other activities. In this case, you must attend classes at set times for a certain period. Part-time education, or, as it is also called, evening education, involves systematic attendance of couples, only in the evening. This form will also allow you to combine part-time work and study.
A teacher and a student at this university can always find a common language. It is not difficult to make friends here and find a good and worthy profession. The specialties of this educational institution are now very popular among other universities and employers. Science at the Far Eastern Federal University is developing very rapidly thanks to the latest technologies. You can read real reviews from students and sometimes teachers on various thematic websites. So, based on the “live comments”, you can understand whether everything suits you in the work of the university. Externships and distance learning are also possible at FEFU. In addition, studying at this university allows you to receive additional professional education or a second higher education.
FEFU branches and additional education at the university
Branches of the university are located in fifteen different cities. Namely in Arsenyev, Artyom, Bolshoy Kamen, Dalnegorsk, Dalnerechensk, village. Kirovsky, Lesozavodsk, pos. Mikhailovka, Nakhodka, Partizansk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Spassk-Dalniy, Ussuriysk, as well as in the Japanese city of Hakodate. The applicant can obtain all the necessary information from the main website of the university. There is a detailed list of documents that are required for admission, as well as the days on which this can be done.
There is a college at FEFU, upon completion of which you will have a good advantage in admission. University students who study well receive a monthly stipend. The university does not guarantee employment, but the training gives you a good, stable basis for finding your employer and getting the desired position. Far Eastern Federal University is the only Russian university that closely cooperates with Japanese higher education institutions. Thanks to these connections, student exchanges occur quite often, and this gives students great chances to build their careers abroad.
Instead of a preface
Let's plunge into the recent past for a moment. It's 2007. The Russian government is seriously thinking about the preservation and development of the Primorsky Territory, since the “cut-off” of the region from the entire country is becoming too obvious.
As a result, a grandiose event is planned to be held in Vladivostok - the APEC Summit 2012. It would seem that this is impossible - there is neither a decent venue nor the appropriate infrastructure in Vladivostok. No? So let's build it! It is then that the city and the region embark on the path of development. Unique bridges, modern roads, cultural institutions and, of course, the pride of the region - the Far Eastern Federal University.
How it all began
The university is conceived as an ultra-modern, promising educational institution. In addition to combining intellectual, personnel, and material resources, the university will have to go through a grandiose construction project - buildings, dormitories, administrative buildings, and all adjacent infrastructure must be created from scratch. It is here that they decide to hold the summit, and subsequently other events of international importance.
To create this grandiose structure, not the most remote, but rather inaccessible corner of the Primorsky Territory was chosen - Russky Island. In 20 years, we will tell our grandchildren how long and thorny the path to Russian was, and they will look at us in disbelief, not imagining the time when on the site of a huge campus there was a wild impenetrable forest, and instead of 10 minutes by car, the journey took about hours by ferry.
How the merger of civilization and nature practically untouched by man took place and what came of it, read on.
Window to Europe
FEFU includes 4 universities of the Far East - Far Eastern State University, Far Eastern State Technical University named after. Kuibyshev, Pacific State Economic University and Ussuri State Pedagogical Institute.
The main feature of FEFU is the infrastructure of a single university campus, which has long been adopted by the world's best universities. Students live, attend lectures, and conduct research in one place. This is a kind of intellectual mini-capital of the region. Among the innovations unusual for the Russian higher education system are a flexible organization of the educational process, a large number of hours of independent work, encouragement of scientific activity, and a two-level “school-department” system.
They built and built and finally built
The vicinity of Ajax Bay was chosen as the location for the creation of the campus. Construction lasted 3 years - from 2009 to 2012. The construction is amazing: the total area of the campus is 1,200,000 square meters. m, of which 800,000 sq. m. are built up. m!
The long-awaited APEC Summit took place on September 8-9, 2012, and first-year students began to move into the campus in October. In total, the dormitories are designed for 11,000 students and teachers. Since 2013, the university has completely moved from the mainland to the island.
The main campus buildings can be divided into several types.
1. Hotel-type dormitories (buildings 1 to 8, located in the northern part of the campus) - this is where distinguished guests, delegations and heads of state live during their visits. They consist of two lines - 5 buildings in the first row (by the sea) and 3 on the second line. The "marine" buildings are also called presidential buildings - for the size of the rooms (150 sq. m) and their luxurious decoration.
2. Three-star class dormitories (buildings 9 to 11).
3. Academic buildings (humanities and natural sciences, during the summit days - a conference hall and a press center), located between the dormitories.
4. Administrative buildings. The student center for student associations and organizations is located between the buildings. To the left of the humanitarian building is a modern sports block. It includes swimming pools and various sports fields, including an indoor tennis court. There are three gyms in the student buildings.
In addition, the territory is landscaped with squares, parks, and fountains. There are also several multi-level car parks and a beautiful promenade that offers stunning views on sunny days.
On July 1, 2013, a Medical Center equipped with the most modern equipment was opened on Russian Island. According to the rector of FEFU, in addition to performing the function of serving patients, the center will become an excellent practical platform for students of the School of Biomedicine.
Figures and facts
The rector of FEFU is Sergei Ivanets, who replaced Vladimir Miklushevsky, now the governor of the region.
The cost of constructing the campus was 63.5 billion rubles, auxiliary premises cost 11.5 billion rubles.
In 2012, the Admissions Committee accepted 18.5 thousand applications from 7.4 thousand applicants from 56 regions of the country.
Every fifth freshman in 2012 came from outside the Primorsky Territory.
According to the official website of FEFU, in 2012 the School of Economics and Management turned out to be the most popular among applicants - the competition was 23 people per place. Next comes the School of Law - 15 people per place, and the School of Regional and International Studies closes the top three - 12 people per place.
Of course, it was not possible to avoid the problems that campus residents often have to face. This includes the lack of fresh water (there is a desalination plant on the island), and an insufficient number of shops and catering establishments, and only one medical center. However, it is already clear that FEFU has a great future ahead of it. Gradually, all the problems of the university are being solved, and the lively response of students and residents of the region plays a big role in this. For the second year in a row, despite everything, the university does not experience a shortage of applicants.
The Far East has become the site of some of the largest investment projects in Russia in recent decades. Grandiose and sometimes unique structures have made the city attractive to tourists, foreign investors, and businessmen. The whole world learned about Vladivostok, which means the inevitable development of the city and the region. FEFU will undoubtedly play a significant role in this - both as a venue for the most important events for the country, and as a forge of qualified personnel who increase the prestige of Primorye and Russia in the international arena.
Panorama of FEFU
How to get to FEFU
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In the second year, the big tent began because of the Eastern Economic Forum and the Football Championship. I mean that the entire new campus was conceived as a site for such events, but not for educational activities. Although they did it too badly. During the rainstorms before the championship, the buildings and dormitories leaked water like a sieve. Apart from VEF, nothing is happening here normally: for the sake of it, students’ schedules are shifted by a month and because of it and other events, the security guards will allow themselves to break the law and demand that you open your backpack/bag and even clutch under the pretext of maintaining security. By the way, the schedule is not so great either. Firstly, they study here 6 days a week, some groups have a day off in the middle of the week, some do not. The teaching load is unevenly distributed. The only plus in my personal schedule is that they don’t bet more than 4 pairs per day. Secondly, you can read about the story with the schedule maker, the attitude towards students from the administration and “nobody gave you freedom of speech” in “Overheard FEFU” or even in the media.
In the third year, our schedule was drawn up automatically, and the program that was part of it was glitchy: what pairs did you have and how much could you learn only in the morning, and pairs with teachers that you should not have. Now this seems to have been corrected, but transferring pairs from one day to another was prohibited. This is inconvenient for both students and teachers.
Of course, they talk about corruption among teachers, but I don’t know how stupid you have to be in order not to drag out the shoddy program here.
Oh, about the program, how I forgot! In the 5th semester, we were forced to take an online course from the Higher School of Economics in cultural studies. When specialized subjects like translation theory had just started, they shoved this bullshit down our throats, where we had to go through thick and thin and the glitchy Examus right before the exam, and the credit unit was defined as “oh, well, we don’t know yet whether it’s a test or an exam, then we’ll say , and in general, this is so that you don’t relax.” Cute, isn't it?
I can’t say anything reliably about the dorms, since I don’t live either on campus or in mainland dorms, but there are a lot of glowing reviews about the “hotels,” especially about the always-piggy foreign students, especially the Chinese and Indians. Because of them, fat, shiny cockroaches multiply and march around kitchens. There are such stories about city hostels that, having seen their image in a dream, you wake up gray-haired and in a cold sweat.
As for scholarships, they are quite good here. However, they are not distributed in the most fair way: there is a regular scholarship and an increased one, that’s okay. However, there are scholarships for priority areas, but it is not known how their priority is determined. Their stipend is one and a half times higher. You can also get additional bonuses for volunteering and other encouraged activities, but the last time the list of “volunteers” included people who were seen at the meetings at most two times and did not really do anything useful.
Well, and for dessert, a security system. I study in building D, so I'm only talking about the state inside it. During fire drills in the fall, it goes without saying that the alarms went off. However, the point is that these alarms are only in classrooms. Yes, yes, my dear friend. You sit like this in the corridor, minding your own business, and at this time everyone is running to the emergency exits, leaving you to burn.
I don't recommend coming here. It is not known what this charaga, affectionately called the Far Eastern Festival School, will do in the new academic year and it is not known how many nerves it will eat up from you, also for your own money.
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