Southern Federal University
Южный федеральный университет | |
Type | Public |
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Established | 1915 |
Rector | Inna Shevchenko |
Academic staff | 4,227 |
Students | 44,889[1] |
Location | 47°13′29″N 39°43′43″E / 47.2247°N 39.7286°E |
Campus | Urban |
Website | www.sfedu.ru
Building details |
University rankings | |
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Global – Overall | |
USNWR Global[2] | 1,647 (2023) |
Regional – Overall | |
QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[3] | 90 (2022) |
Southern Federal University (Russian: Южный федеральный университет), abbreviated as SFedU (Russian: ЮФУ) and formerly known as Rostov State University (1957–2006), is a public university in Rostov Oblast, Russia with campuses in Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog. In 2023 US News & World Report ranked it # 1,647 in the world.[2]
History
Southern Federal University is the largest research and educational establishment of
Marina Alexandrovna Borovskaya, president of the university, was suspended by the
Academics
University centers and degree-granting institutions
- Main campus of SFedU (former Rostov State University)
- Institute of Economics and International Relations
- Pedagogical Institute (former Rostov State Pedagogical University)
- Taganrog Institute of Technology (abbreviated as TIT, former Taganrog State University of Radioengineering)
- Institute of Architecture & Arts (former Rostov State Academy of Architecture & Arts)
- The Smart Materials Research Center
Rankings
University rankings | |
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Global – Overall | |
QS World[2] | 1,647 |
THE World[6] | 801-1000 |
In 2023 US News & World Report ranked it # 1,647 in the world.[2] In 2017, Times Higher Education ranked the university within the 801-1000 band globally.[6]
Degree mill
The volunteer community network Dissernet has discovered multiple cases of PhD level degrees being awarded by the university for heavily plagiarized theses.[7]
Alumni and faculty
Alumni
- Alexander Ankvab, President of Abkhazia
- Ekaterina Nikitichna Blinova, meteorologist
- Alexander Bovin, journalist, political scientist and diplomat
- Aleksander Burba, chemist, founder of metallurgy of germanium
- Alexander Fedorov, media educator, film critic, editor of Media Education Journal
- Zinaida Ermol’eva, microbiologist and biochemist who developed first Soviet-made antibiotics, recipient of numerous Soviet awards
- Sergey Shakhray, deputy Prime Minister of Russia
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writer Nobel prize winner
- Valery Tarsis, writer.
- Tony Vilgotsky, writer
Faculty
- Dmitry Morduhai-Boltovskoi, mathematician
- Dmitri Ivanovsky, botanist, founder of virology
- Ivan Alekseyevich Kornilov, Soviet general
- Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov, Soviet diplomat
- Sabina Spielrein, psychoanalyst
- Iosif Vorovich, mathematician
- Yuri Zhdanov, chemist, rector of the University of Rostov (1957—1988)
See also
References
- ^ "Facts and Figures on Southern Federal University". Official website of SFedU. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ a b c d [1]
- ^ "QS World University Rankings-Emerging Europe & Central Asia". Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ^ a b Belozerov, Semen E.; Zhdanov, Yuriy A. "History of Rostov State University: Rostov-on-Don 1915–-1930" (in Russian). SFedU official website. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ O’Malley, Brendan (7 March 2022). "EUA suspends 12 Russian members who back Putin's invasion". University World News. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
- ^ a b "World University Rankings". Times Higher Education (THE). August 18, 2017.
- ^ "Южный Федеральный Университет".