Tyumen Industrial University

Industrial University of Tyumen (IUT) (before 2016, known as the Tyumen State Oil and Gas University and the Tyumen State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering) is a higher education institution in Tyumen, Russia. IUT provides education from secondary general, secondary vocational education, and higher education, to doctoral studies and business education programs. Studies are held in 25 large groups of areas of training and specialties and in more than 150 educational programs. The number of students is approximately 32,530 people. The IUT research group includes 225 higher doctorate and professors, and 787 candidates of sciences, associate professors. The rector of IUT was Veronika Efremova, as of 20 September 2020. History The development of the Tyumen region and the development of the engineering industry required the training of specialists. In 1956, to solve this problem the regional government opened an educational and consulting center of the Ural Polytechnic Institute in the building of the Tyumen Machine-Building Technical School. In 1963, the Industrial Institute of Tyumen was established by the Government decree. The first rector of TII was Anatoly Kosukhin, who previously worked as an associate professor at the Ural Polytechnic Institute. In ten years, the student body grew from 750 in 1964 to 8,955 in 1974.