General Information

Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Russia’s principal higher educational institute of petroleum engineering, has now been in existence for almost 75 years. Gubkin University follows the best traditions of the national higher education system. During the last seventy years, the University has developed a wide research capacity, which has led to the development of many new methods of exploration, production, transportation, refining and processing of hydrocarbons.

Gubkin had trained over 70 000 diploma engineers, candidates and doctors of science, many of whom are presently top executives of oil and gas companies. The University is proud of its alumni who are working in the petroleum majors of Russia.

Gubkin R&D efforts, which presently involve 27 programs, are deeply rooted in the leading research schools that were established during the years of the Univer¬sity’s development.

The research carried out has always yielded tangible results. The number of inventions furthering the development of the energy sector grows every year. Over 300 Gubkin researches have been awarded state and governmental prizes of Russia.

Today Gubkin’s total enrolment accounts for 7,000 students with a faculty of 200 professors, doctors of science and about 600 assistant professors and candidates of science.

A specific feature of Russia’s higher technical school is its close links with industry. Following the best of the national traditions the University works in close contact with the enterprises of the oil and gas industry. The University co-operates with all oil and gas majors and refineries of Russia. The heads of the companies have established the Council of Trustees and the Fund for Petroleum Engineering Education Development, which give the students a wonderful opportunity to visit different far-off parts of the country such as the Island of Sakhalin and Kamchatka, the Barents Sea, Siberia and the Volga Region

Thus, having started with 4 specialities, the University today offers training in 15 majors, including 26 specialties and 39 scientific areas of specialization.

Organization participating in the Oil-and-Gas
Education Support Fund


GAZPROM LUKOIL YUKOS

Surgutneftegas TNK ROSNEFT

Slavneft Sibneft Ritek

ZARUBEZHNEFT TRANSNEFT Transnefteprodukt

Stroitransgaz ITERA-Holding Rosneftegazstroi

Nefteotdacha Lukoil-Neftegazstroi PetroAliance

Gazexport SG-Trans Nefteprombank

Neftechimautomatika AssoNeft MTEA

TcDU TEK Mosnefteprodukt VNII GAZ

Specialities offered for Foreign Students

Faculty of petroleum geology and geophysics

Speciality: 080500 “Geology of Oil and Gas”
080400 “Geophysical Methods of Fossil Fuels Prospecting and Exploration”
080900 “Well Logging”


Faculty of Oil and gasfield development

Speciality: 070600 “Physical Processes of Mining and Petroleum
Production”
090600 “Development and Exploitation of Oil and Gas Fields”
090800 “Oil and Gas Well Drilling”


Faculty of pipeline network design, construction and operation

Speciality: 090700 “Designing, construction and exploitation of Oil and Gas pipelines, oil and gas storage facilities”


Faculty of mechanical engineering

Speciality: 120100 “Technology of machine building”
120500 “Equipment and technology of welding”
120600 “Equipment and technology of improved wear resistance and machine parts reconditioning”
072000 “Standardization and certification”
330500 “Safety of industrial processes and plants”
170200 “Machines and equipment for oil and gas fields”
090900 “Offshore facilities”
171700 “Equipment for oil and gas refining”


Faculty of Law

Speciality: 021100 “Jurisprudence”

Faculty of Economics and Management

Speciality: 060800 “Economy and Management of Enterprise”

Faculty of Automation and computer science

Speciality: 210200 “Automation of Industrial Processes and Plants”
190900 “Information and Measuring Instruments and Technologies”
180400 “Electrical Drive and Automation of Industrial Plants and Systems”
220200 “Computerized Systems of Information Processing and Control”
073000 “Applied Mathematics”

Faculty of chemical and environmental engineering

Speciality: 250100 “Chemical Technology of Organic Substances”
250400 “Chemical Technology of Fuels and Carbon Materials”
320700 “Environmental protection and the rational use of natural resources”

Courses Available in English

Training at the University is conducted mostly in Russian. Below are listed the programs available in English. These are directed at Bachelor’s degree holders.

Reservoir Geoscience and Engineering
Petroleum Economics and Management

Association of Foreign Students in Russia

THE FOREIGN STUDENTS
ASSOCIATION IN RUSSIA (FSA)

The Foreign Students Association in Russia was formed by the initiative of the foreign students in Russia with support of the Ministry of Education in the Russian Federation. It operates with the registration number of JR-28.

FSA is a social, non- political, and non-commercial organization.This association came into light as a result of a unique aspiration of foreign students in Russia, to come together, as a formidable group to solve problems concerning them.(Problems concerning their live activities, studies, and perfection in raising their intellectual and cultural integrity. The other areas of concern are health services, judicial and social protection).

The basic aims of FSA are the following:

1. To assist in fomenting the already existing relation between foreign students and educational establishments in Russia.Again the association aspires to create cordial relationship between foreign students’ social organizations on one side and the administrations and other directive organs that deal with education on other side.
2. To assist the foreign students in their professional training, defense of their legal rights and interest in the Russian Federation.
3. The Association involves itself in building friendship amongst people, passing over the barriers of their different cultural orientation.

The Basic Directions of the Association

1. To make the Russian citizens and other people of the rest of the world society to be aware of the conditions of foreigners, their activities and other phenomena concerning foreigners in Russia through the mass media
2. To give material and judicial assistance to foreign students residing on the soil of Russia.
3. Realization of cultural and sporting activities.
4. The Association helps the Universities, Institutes and other Educational Establishment in Russia to recruit and train students from foreign countries
5. To assist in perfecting normative acts and documents determining the legal positions of foreign students in Russia
6. Establishment and development of contacts with foreign students’ organizations in other countries, and also with the international non-governmental organizations.
7. Establishment of contacts with the Russian Trained Graduates who are in their respective countries.
8. To assist in recruiting students from other parts of the world to study on scholarship and on contract basis respectively in the Russian Federation.
9. The Association conducts sociological pools for data processing.