Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering

Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering (KSUAE), founded on 23 May 1930 as the Kazan Institute of Communal Construction, is a federal public university in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia, under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The university specializes in architecture, civil engineering, transport engineering, urban planning, design, economics and management in construction, and information systems. Its six institutes — Architecture and Design; Civil Engineering; Building Technology, Engineering and Ecology Systems; Transport Structures; Economics and Construction Industry Management; and Additional Vocational Education — serve over 7,000 full-time and part-time students taught by approximately 550 qualified academics, including more than 50 doctors of sciences. KSUAE operates a compact urban campus in central Kazan with educational buildings, laboratories, a scientific and technical library of over 600,000 volumes, 30 computer classes, three student dormitories, a sports complex, and a stadium. All degree programmes are taught in Russian. The university actively participates in international partnerships (Erasmus+, Tempus) and has academic cooperation agreements with universities in Italy, China, Greece, Brazil, India, Iran, Turkey, and CIS countries. About 200 international students from approximately 40 countries study at KSUAE. The university has no branches.