On August 31st, within the framework of the beginning of the new academic year, the Rector of South Ural State University held a meeting with the SUSU academic and administrative staff members. The head of the university outlined the plans and goals for the next year and summed up the results of the 2023 Admissions Campaign.
Alexander Wagner noted that the admission figures are significantly higher this year than those of previous years. More than 13 thousand people have submitted over 40000 applications for various academic programmes. As a result of the Admissions Campaign, more than 7000 students of all modes of study and levels of education enrolled in South Ural State University.
"We associate this year’s growth in admission rates to the demand for engineering and IT specialties. These professions remain the most relevant ones in our region both because of its specifics and because of the active digitalization of industrial enterprises, the emergence and development of new technology companies that require professional personnel today. Our country needs such specialists to implement the program of technological sovereignty. Our country needs people who know how to create and develop new technological and technical products that can successfully replace imported analogues," said SUSU Rector Alexander Wagner.
The university is successfully coping with the task of import substitution. Quite recently, the university jointly with the URAL Automobile Plant presented the Arctic bus. This is a car that has practically no analogues in the world. SUSU students and postgraduates took an active part in its development.
South Ural State University (SUSU) is a university of transformations, where innovative research is conducted in most of the priority fields of science and technology development. In accordance with the strategy of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation, the university is focused on the development of big scientific interdisciplinary projects in the field of digital industry, materials science, and ecology. In 2021 SUSU became the winner in the competition under the Priority 2030 program. The university acts as a regional project office of the World-class Ural Interregional Research and Education Centre (UIREC), which is aimed at solving the tasks of the Science and Universities National Project.