TOMSK, Apr 18 – RIA Tomsk. Siberian State Medical University (SSMU)
received the status of supporting university thanks to what in the next years
will receive additional regional and federal financing, Kommersant reports.
According to the edition, on
April 17 the Ministry of Education and Science announced the completion of the
second stage of the program competition, assuming merging of regional
universities into multidisciplinary supporting universities. Among the winners
are 22 universities, which are divided into two groups.
"The first group included
universities which will receive joint financing of the development program both
at the federal and regional levels. Among them there is <...> Siberian
State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia", – the
edition writes.
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It is specified that also this
group included Murmansk Arctic State University, Nizhny Novgorod State
Technical University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Vladimir, Tula,
Yaroslavl and Cherepovets State Universities. 14 more universities were entered
the second group, they will get auditor and expert support of the federal
center and the grant from regional budgets.
Within three months selected
universities have to present the five-year program of development to the
Ministry of Education and Science. For its realization they will receive a
subsidy within three years. Last year its size reached 200 million rubles. It
is noted that the first 11 supporting universities were selected in January
2016, none of the Tomsk universities were among them.
According to the program, the
institutions of Moscow and St. Petersburg, the institutions participating in
the 5-100 program, federal universities and universities located in
municipalities where there are already supporting universities can't apply for
the status.
SSMU was founded in 1888 as a
medical faculty of the Imperial Tomsk University. It is one of the best medical
universities of Russia. Now more than five thousand people from 55 regions of
Russia and 24 countries study at the university. At the university work its own
multidisciplinary clinics, which annually accept about 20 thousand patients.