Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Mari State University”

Date of foundation: 01.01.1972 (Mari State Pedagogical Institute, now part of MarSU was founded in 1931)

The founder: Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

Consists of 5 Institutes and 9 Faculties

-         Institute of Medicine

-         Institute of Natural Sciences and Pharmacy

-         Institute of National Culture and Intercultural Communication

-         Faculty of Economics

-         Institute of Agricultural Technologies

-         Pedagogical Institute

-         Faculty of Foreign Languages

-         Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology

-         Faculty of Physical Education, Sport and Tourism

-         Faculty of General Education and Professional Studies

-         Faculty of Physics and Mathematics

-         Faculty of Law

-         Faculty of History and Philology

-         Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Total number of students: more than 8 000

Number of international students: more than 2000 from 35 countries

Number of study programs: more than 200 study programs of different levels + 104 further professional education programs

Levels of study programs:

Vocational Study Programs

Bachelor Programs Master Programs

Postgraduate Programs

Medical Residency Training

Doctoral Training

Teaching staff: more than 500 lectures, including more than 400 candidates and doctors of sciences