North-Caucasus Federal University (Russian: Северо-Кавказский федеральный университет), abbreviated as NCFU (Russian: СКФУ) is a public university in Stavropol Krai, Russia with campuses in Stavropol, Pyatigorsk and Nevinnomyssk. It was established in 2012 as a flagship university of the newly created North Caucasian Federal District by merging Stavropol State University, North-Caucasus State Technical University, and Pyatigorsk State University of Humanities and Technology.
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General information
North-Caucasus Federal University (NCFU) was established subject to a respective Decree by President of the Russian Federation (No. 958 of July 18, 2011) and an Order by the Government of the Russian Federation (No. 226-p of February 22, 2012) through a merger of three universities located in the Stavropol Region – North-Caucasus State Technical University, Stavropol State University and Pyatigorsk State University for Humanities & Technology.
The university comprises 9 institutes in Stavropol and 2 institutes (affiliates) in Pyatigorsk and Nevinnomyssk.
University rankings
NCFU was rated among 40 top Russian universities (according to the National university ranking by Interfax).
Aims and objectives
NCFU mission is to develop human and intellectual capital thus promoting competitive social and economic development in the areas of the Russian Federation that belong to North-Caucasus Federal District.
Institutes and faculties
Institute of Humanities
Institute of Engineering
Institute of Digital Development
Institute of Geosciences
Institute of Law
Institute of Economics and Management
Faculty of Physics and Technology
Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Faculty of Psychology and Education
Faculty of Food Engineering and Biotechnology
Faculty of Physical Culture and Sport
Faculty of Medicine and Biology
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences named after Professor N.I. Cheryakova
Graduate School of Creative Industries
College of NCFU (Stavropol)
Military Training Center
Affiliates
Institute of Technology (NCFU branch in Nevinnomyssk, Russia);
Institute of Service, Tourism and Design (NCFU branch in Pyatigorsk, Russia).
Major academic fields
Information technologies
Applied mathematics
Information security
Electronics
Nanotechnologies
Power energy
Oil and gas
Geosciences
Ecology and environmental management
Engineering
Biology
History
Economy
Management
Tourism and hospitality
Humanities
Social sciences
Law studies
Pedagogy
Psychology
Physics
Chemistry
Linguistics
Design
Major research fields
Organic chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry
Nanotechnologies and advanced materials
Technologies of life science, food safety and food biotechnology
Aerospace and geoinformation technologies, land-use planning
Neurocomputers, parallel and high-performance computing
Complex information security of infrastructure facilities
Energy efficiency
Ethnodemography, conflictology studies
Socio-political and humanitarian research and technology, the culture and traditions of the North-Caucasus ethnic groups
International partners
The university has a number of relationships with universities in more than 40 countries.
In 2020, the North-Caucasus Federal University established the Great Caucasus format together with the Abkhazian State University, the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia and the South Ossetian State University. The four universities will work more together and spread the use of the Russian language.
Human capital
The university has an academic staff of around 1,500 members.
Student body of about 25,000.
From 2017 on, following a respective order by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education, a Resource Training Center for Persons with Disabilities has been functioning at NCFU.
Alina Levitskaia – Rector, NCFU; 2012 to August, 2019.
Irina Soloveva – Acting Rector, NCFU; August – October, 2019.
November 2019 – Dmitry Bespalov was appointed as NCFU's Acting Rector and in July 2020, by order of the Government of the Russian Federation, he was appointed to the post of rector of the North Caucasus Federal University.
History
Stavropol Agropedagogic Institute (1930), thereafter
Stavropol State Pedagogic Institute (1932)
Stavropol State Pedagogic University (1993)
Stavropol State University (through integration with an affiliate of Moscow State Academy of Law) (1996)
Stavropol Polytechnic Institute[24] (1971)
Stavropol State Technical University (1994)
North-Caucasus State Technical University (1999)
Pyatigorsk State University for Humanities & Technology (1999) (subject to the Decree by Prime Minister of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin
On January 23, 2010, was officially announced as launched
On July 18, 2011, President of the Russian Federation signed a Decree establishing North-Caucasus Federal University on the premises of North-Caucasus State Technical University
On February 22, 2012 North-Caucasus Federal University was officially declared established by a special Decree