Autonomous Non-commercial Organisation of Higher Education “Russian New University” (RosNOU) was established in 1991.
The University carries out educational activities on the basis of the lifetime License (No. 2120 of 28 April 2016) and the State Accreditation (No. 2046 of 24 June 2016, valid until 24 March 2022).
Since 2012, Russian New University has been enrolling students for budget places funded by the federal budget of the Russian Federation.
RosNOU’s founder and Rector is Vladimir A. ZERNOV, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Chairman of the Association of Non-state Higher Educational Institutions of Russia (“ANVUZ”).
From 1999 to 2012, scientific activities at Russian New University were supervised by Sergey P. KAPITSA (1928-2012). Today, RosNOU’s scientific supervisor is Professor, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and USSR State Prize laureate Evgeniy A. PALKIN.
Russian New University offers ample opportunity to pursue higher and secondary vocational education in Russian regions. The University has branches and local accessing centres in 21 cities as well as a developed system of distance learning.
The head university is based in four educational buildings in Moscow. The University, with its seven institutes and college of secondary vocational education, employs more than 70 Doctors of Science, more than 200 Candidates of Sciences, state prize winners, foreign professors and practitioners.
The University conducts educational programmes at the Bachelor, Specialist, Master, PhD levels as well as programmes of secondary vocational education and additional vocational training. Higher education is presented by 14 large directions of training in six fields of study:
- Mathematical and Natural sciences (Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Mathematical Software and Administration of Information Systems);
- Engineering, Technologies and Technical Sciences (Informatics and Computer Engineering, Information Systems and Technologies, Applied Informatics, Heat Power Engineering and Heat Technology, Electric Power Engineering and Electric Technology, Nanoengineering);
- Social Sciences (Psychology, Social Work, Economics, Management, Personnel Management, State and Municipal Management, Finance and Credit, Business Informatics, Customs Procedures, Jurisprudence, Advertising and Public Relations, Publishing, Service, Hotel Industry, Tourism);
- Education and Pedagogical Sciences (Pedagogical Education, Psychological and Pedagogical Education, Special (Defectology) Education, Pedagogics and Psychology of Deviant Behaviour);
- Humanities (Longuistics, Translation and Translation Theory)
- Arts and Culture (Culturology).
RosNOU’s high positions in influential university rankings, such as QS, MosIUR, RAEX, Forbes etc., confirm the University’s high quality of education, level of scientific work, its graduates’ competitiveness on the labour market and its authority.
Russian New University arranges for its students internships and exchange programmes, including foreign ones, sends students to professional trainings (introductory, on-the-job, pre-graduation) at designated organisations and companies, provides support in job placement in accordance with the student’s field of study.
The University has its own student residence that accommodates 600+ people.
At Russian New University, there are Student Council, Student Scientific Society, Student Theatre, Art Studio and Sports Clubs. The University holds interdepartmental and interuniversity tournaments, KVN* games, different contests and festivals. Student volunteering movement is also gaining ground at RosNOU.
*KVN is a popular humorous show. The abbreviation stands for “Klub vesyolykh I nakhodchivykh” – Club of the Cheerful and Sharp-Witted.
RosNOU is the founder of the All-Russia Rating of School Websites, educational project “School for Rights Campaigners”, Intellectual Triathlon League igames.team.
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RosNOU is a member of the international association IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence.
For eleven years (2001-2012), the scientific activities at RosNOU were supervised by physicist, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and science communicator Sergey P. KAPITSA.
The scientific supervisor at RosNOU’s Institute of Economics, Management and Finance Tatiana M. REGHENT was the Head of the Federal Migration Service of Russia from 1992 to 1999.
The scientific supervisor of RosNOU’s Institute of Humanities Olga Y. IVANOVA was elected President of the Union of Translators of Russian in 2019. Olga Ivanova knows Ancient Greek and Modern Greek, Latin, French, German and English.
The Procurator General of the USSR (from 1988 to 1990) Alexander Y. SUKHAREV worked as a professor at RosNOU for many years. In 2010, Alexander Sukharev was granted the rank of Actual State Councillor of Justice.
Among RosNOU employees, there are five USSR State Prize laureates. They are: Yuriy V. GULYAYEV, Guriy P. STUPAKOV, Evgeniy A. PALKIN, Andrey S. KRYUKOVSKIY and Dmitriy S. LUKIN.
In 2015, RosNOU was included in top 5 Russian universities in respect of the h-index, an author-level metric that measures productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar.
RosNOU’s professor Oskar Y. GOYKHMAN is on the list of the world’s 100 leading professors compiled by the University of Cambridge.
RosNOU’s professor Vladimir G. SHUR was engaged in establishing public relations abroad during peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Tajikistan. Vladimir Shur knows Hindi, Urdu and English.
Famous People About RosNOU
RosNOU was founded by the leading Russian scientists. And nowadays the basis of University’s achievements stems from the commitment of highly professional faculty members, strong educational and methodological framework, and the aspiration to implement the most advanced scientific achievements and contemporary education technologies.
Russian New University is one of the leading non-governmental universities in the country. Graduates of the University become experts in humanitarian and social sciences, as well as in physics and mathematics. Moreover, in RosNou the combination of classic education and innovative methods (including distance learning) is successfully applied on practice.
RosNou has successfully adopted the educational system invented in Physical-Technical Institute, which attracts proactive working people. They can give you knowledge that is highly effective and is not easily forgotten. With such intensions people come to Russian New University.
Are non-governmental universities able to provide students with the same effective education that is provided in leading governmental universities? Yes they are, RosNou for instance.
“RosNOU is a quite strong private university which provides a real training in engineering specialties.”
“From the first days of RosNOU's activity, I took a liking to the direction in which your university was moving. There are very few private universities that deal with technology issues in specific industries. And your university presents both natural sciences and IT study areas; there are also developments at the intersection of physics and medicine. RosNOU is now a well-known university, its name is recognizable. I am sure the future has a lot in store for it."
“Your rector is one of the few open-minded people. A young spirit prevails in him. And at a university a lot depends on its leader. Considering who the rector of RosNOU is and what values he has, nothing bad can happen to this university."
"The Russian New University is so strong that we, a state university, accept this university on equal terms, as it is absolutely competitive."
“I am convinced that a private university is a more perfect system than a state one. In Europe, for example, the best universities, world-class universities are private. And the Russian New University carries out a tremendous scientific work."
“The Russian New University is very strong in many disciplines: engineering, natural sciences, in particular, in mathematics and humanities. RosNOU is a university of practical technologies and one of the strongest private universities in Russia and Eurasia. You have many students from other countries, you teach in different languages: Farsi, Chinese and others. It is difficult to develop a private university. But your team manages it."
“There are many good universities in Russia, but few universities have their own special face. The Russian New University is a university that has its own identity. RosNOU is one of the universities that gives priority to science, in some areas of science they occupy leading positions and are recognized in other countries."
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