As its name implies, the Nizhny Novgorod state linguistic university is a university which is specified in the field of languages and humanities. The university was established in 1937 as a language school, whose aim was to educate English, German and French teachers for secondary schools. It adapted a special kind of methodology at the time and developed and worked on that ever since. Students of this university can learn and study at least 2 languages besides Russian. There are actually 13 languages available at the university.

The university emphasizes students professional career paths and provides opportunities for them to develop their practical and professional skills. Because of the intensive contacts of the university with various organizations, graduates of the university are mostly hired by the Russian government, the united-nations and several other international organizations.

These days, the university has expanded its faculties and the courses that are offered at these faculties. In 2022, students can study journalism, international relation, economy, tourism and several more courses at this university. The university consists of 5 schools or faculties in various fields of humanities. There are also more than 400 academic and administrative staff employed by university.

The university is located at the city of Nizhny Novgorod. This city is located at the east of Moscow, near the cold lands of Siberia. The city is an old and historical place with many sites and buildings, exhibiting the long and fruitful life of the city. The city consists of a multicultural and multilingual population, from which the students of the linguistics university can surely benefit most.

Advantages

In talking about the advantages, the name of the Erasmus+ program must definitely be mentioned first for its great importance. The Erasmus+ enables students of this university to move abroad, in order to continue several semesters of their education in another university, and at the same time enables foreign students to join the Nizhny Novgorod university to study.

The university takes research very seriously, and has enabled researchers to join the university or its researchers to join any other research programs in other universities by the Erasmus program.

The compact and compressed nature of the campus and the overall university can also be considered as one of the advantages of the university. The university is a relatively small university with only 3000 students. All the faculties and departments are located in one campus and students can use all the facilities of the university they need conveniently at this manner.

Contacts and contracts of the university with various Russian and international organizations is also one of the main advantages of this university. Many students join the internship programs during their studies and many start working full-time at one of these organizations after graduation.

Student life

Every student spending several months or a total degree level here at Nizhny Novgorod leaves with great and ever-lasting memories. The university may seem little from outside, but it is a little world inside the walls of the campus. the university has organized many student unions for the students with different interests to join, learn and enjoy some leisure time at the university. There are also several festivals, one of which has won awards for the best festival in Russia. The international young student festival “the great world“ is a 2 times award winner festival which offers incredible opportunities and creates fantastic memories for its students. There are also a couple of more festivals that take place at this university annually and help students to learn about different cultures and develop personally.

Inside the campus, there are a few sports facilities which students can use. The university owns an incredible library with more than 400000 copies of books in 50 languages.

The university has also provided several student accommodations in the city of Nizhny Novgorod.

Admissions and application requirements

Application form;

• National passport and its copy;

• Notarized translation of national passport;

• Copy of entry visa to the Russian Federation if a foreign citizen

comes to Russia with this visa;

• Migration card with a border-crossing stamp and a valid

registration;

• Valid formal document of education and its notarized translation;

• Medical certificate;

• Certificate of vaccinations issued in the country of permanent

residence.

University ranking

The university has always been known as one of the best and most prestigious Russian universities. This university has not been ranked, but has been mentioned by the QS world university ranking. Other than that website, the edurank website has ranked this university as the 201^st best Russian university and the 6114^th best one in the world, which falls among the top 50% of the universities. The unirank website has also ranked this university as the 184^th best university of Russia and among the 5000 top universities in its ranking.

School of linguistics, pedagogics and psychology:

The oldest and the pioneering faculty of the university, the linguistics faculty was established in 1937 as the institute of English, German and French languages. Later, it developed to be the faculty of linguistics. Nowadays, this faculty specializes at the language teaching methodology and teacher training courses mainly. Students can study at the BA and Ma levels here, but unfortunately no PhD courses are taught here. The faculty only offers 3 programs on the BA level and 9 on MA level.

Faculty of international relations and world politics:

This faculty was established on the basis of economy, management and international relations and offers 2 programs in BA level and 5 programs in the MA level.

School of translation and interpreting:

Besides the linguistics university of Moscow, this faculty is the oldest and the most traditional translation school all over Russia. The faculty was established at 1962 and has been educating translators of different languages ever since then.

Why Nizhny Novgorod state linguistics university?

The Nizhny Novgorod university is a public university in Russia, and Russian government usually funds most of the students. So, this university, can be a great choice for people who are willing to continue their studies at the field of humanities and for free. The university also offers a one-of-a-kind multicultural and multilingual environment which you can only see here. The city is also incredibly beautiful and all the students can have enjoyable and memorable days at the cold snowy nights of Russia.