Master’s degree programs

The program of training includes the following modules: English in pedagogy, English for technical and humanitarian specialties, English for cross-cultural and business communication. All those will help improving English language and communication skills of master’s students. Theoretical and practical linguistics will help the students form a complete idea of a language as a system.

Historical anthropology (anthropological history) is a modern "comprehensive history" that contains cross-disciplinary research field where the professional historian investigates a human being placed in time in various contexts. The discipline has made a deep impact on research practice and mentality of historians around the world. Nowadays, the innovations provided by this science are used to study any historical period/area.

Historical and cultural tourism is the most popular among all types of domestic tourism in Russia. The government cares for boosting historical and cultural tourism in the Volga region. In order to do that, a strategy needs to be developed and updated, then new tourist routes should be drawn up. The purpose of the master’s degree program is to use scientific approach to studies, thus building up a comprehensive idea of touristic potential of the region and its effective use as well as learning and improving techniques of tour guide business.

To be always fit, to look good, to be a role model? To speak perfect Russian, nicely and correctly, and to teach others how to do it? If this is your dream, then your should definitely apply for the master's program "Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language"!

This master's program aimes at training a teacher competent in modern theory and innovative technologies of teaching literature. It is practically oriented and allows students to be engaged into the educational process from the very beginning, mastering various skills while being immersed into research, teaching and administrative internships.

The main objective of the program is harmonious and versatile development of a teacher of German. The curriculum consists of 6 modules covering all subject matters of teacher training: practical language course, theory of linguistics, technique of teaching German, cross-cultural communication, methodology of scientific research.

The main objective is to train an expert who is able to analyze, develop, implement an education policy, boost international academic cooperation and research design activities; to cooperate effectively in the multicultural professional academic and managerial environment and capable to solve local and global cross-cultural objectives.

These are the core scientific activity fields where master’s students take part: researching of the orthodox references forming the basis of religious and spiritual tradition of the Russian culture; exploring issues of spiritual and moral education of youth as well as peculiarities of Russian religious philosophy. They also study methodological bases of theology, looking into the questions of delineating the subject field of theology and religious studies. They will also discuss the perspectives of theology as a highschool discipline and many other acute topics.

This program is aimed at offering fundamental and professional training so that a graduate could take part in research activities that concern fundamental mindset, issues of methodology and values which any civilization faces with the subsequent chance of using the research results in the pedagogy or government agencies.

The program is focused on graduates who have previously taken majors of geography, ecology, tourism. Culture, entertainment or tourist agencies staff are also welcome!

Our students are immersed into research, design and production, expertise monitoring and administrative professional activity in the field of environmental design.

The program welcomes teachers working in the field of health and safety and sharing the ideas of education for sustainable development. The student is getting ready to solve relevant pedagogical, research, project, methodical, administrative, cultural and educational tasks.

This program integrated the potential of geography with the ecological perspective, environmental protection and sustainable development. It meets the requirements of world and domestic educational innovation processes as well as the university strategy.

This program helps students to plan and implement research in the field of chemistry with the use of modern scientific methods.

Students of this program study according to the curriculum of Cisco Network Academy which helps gain initial skills for career development and continuous education. It also leads to the worldwide recognized certifications Cisco CCENT and CCNA. On completion of the Cisco Network Academy’s program ‘PC Hardware and Software Fundamentals’ the students will be ready to work in the following positions: IT Administrator, Remote Technical Support Engineer, PC Service Engineer.

The graduate who has completed this program is prepared to join creative, high performance teams or teams of change that are involved in redesigning education, performing project development activity in governmental education agencies, either at an educational institution or diagnostic center founded by a government department of education.

This program is unique and has no competitive analogies in any universities of this and adjacent regions.

• This program is run together with the Severtsov Institute for Environmental and Evolution Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). It offers an opportunity for an internship at their scientific labs and perform research under the supervision of their leading researchers.

The program students master the curriculum of Cisco Network Academy which helps them gain initial skills for career development and continuous education. They can also get the universally recognized Cisco CCENT and CCNA certification. Students also master modern software products of 1C at their certification center located in the Minin University and receive the relevant certifications.

Considerable part of the program is devoted to ways and instruments of practical activities of a psychologist. Students gain knowledge of the reasons and mechanisms of psychological issues, master methods of psychological assistance in a difficult life situation.

This program combines profound studying of traditional theoretical and methodological bases of psychological science with modern technologies of practical psychology.

It is the first master‘s program in the Russian Federation focused on training of specialists in the field of the organization and management of spatial development of the educational organizations or the organizations having an educational component of their activity.

We training an open-minded professional capable of effective implementation of corporate education at companies of different level in the changing world and its economy. Our graduate can create a team to achieve strategic objectives of staffing and lead this team (to become the leader of the change process) in order to convert a strategy into reality.

This program offers a high level of training quality for practical innovative purposes. Our graduates can demonstrate valued expertise in innovative programs and projects. They can organize networking of the educational organizations, methodically support teachers involved in innovative activities.

The program is focused on training leaders of the new generation for education of the future. The aim of the program is to develop personal qualities of students and form core professional competences

The program is focused on training qualified specialists, able to create conditions for a child’s adapting to the initial stages of school education, to collect data on a child’s personality and to assist in building up or changing an individual educational path of a student.

This program offers students the knowledge of the mechanisms of development of children and teenagers having individual peculiarities (ranging from delay in development to giftedness), study theoretical bases and practical abilities of the effective organization of the educational environment to develop different types of students’ activity, master methods of psychology and pedagogical assistance to children with deviations, master modern psychological and pedagogical techniques of child’s development.

The program is focused on training the qualified specialists who can effectively drive organizational and administrative activities in a preschool educational organization with the use of innovative technologies.

The program in crisis psychology gives the chance to the program graduates to become professional psychologists capable of solving problems in education, healthcare, culture, management, social security and also in the public and private companies, government agencies, research and consulting by providing psychological assistance to people and companies.

This program uses the s.c. modular principle of transferring knowledge and skills to the students who will demonstrate profound special and fundamental knowledge in the field of speech therapy. It also provides graduates with core cultural and professional competences.

We train highly qualified specialists capable of designing and implementing innovative programs and new technologies aimed at solving psychological and pedagogical problems of people with disabilities. We strive to support the ideas of humanizing the education and socializing of younger generation.

We train professionally competent experts in the field of special (defectological) education, capable of running creative correctional and pedagogical, diagnostic and advisory, preventive, research, teaching activities projects and solve a wide range of professional tasks. We also train highly qualified specialists capable of designing and implementing innovative programs and new technologies aimed at assisting people with disabilities.

Our mission is to ensure comprehensive and high-quality training of the qualified and competitive graduates in the field of social and economic activity, pedagogics of the economics. Our graduates can perform research and solve various scientific, pedagogical, economic and administrative tasks.

We train future Human Resource managers at the international level of standards. Modern HRM is a base for effective ‘steering’ of any organization. Students learn how to arrange the staffing process, C&B system, how to assess performance and motivate employees.

We offer comprehensive and high-quality training of students in the field of F&A, so that they are capable to apply relevant skills and technologies.

We train the elite administrative staff for hotel and tourist industry by applying high standards of education, advanced methods of training and the requirements of future employers

The program provides knowledge and skills that can be applied to meet the requirements of consumers in the field of customer relations.

Our mission is to train future bachelors of professional education. Those are independent, creative, active and capable to build up a personal professional development path by arranging the educational process based on the ideas of competency-based, design-oriented and individual approaches.

We offer comprehensive and high-quality training of program students in the field of education, capable to apply modern financial skills and technologies when solving tasks of educational process, managing educational systems, driving scientific and pedagogical research. Strategic partners who provide internship opportunities and pick up the best students for employment are: Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Sberbank of Russia, Sarovbusinessbank, Radiotekhbank, Rosgosstrakh, United Insurance Company.

The program is intended for training of highly skilled graduates on pedagogics as to theoretical science and mechatronics/robotics as to technical sciences.

The program is aimed at building up competences of an effective and knowledgeable educational institution leader.

The program provides studying of the current state and prospects of the theory of physical training and sport, improvement of its methodology; studying theoretical concepts of sport, its functions and forms found in the society, development trends; the system of sports competitions, training of professional athletes; domestic and international sports training methods. The graduates will also be able to master modern hardware and software that is used to assist research activities in the sports field. They will be knowledgeable and skilled to solve applied tasks in this profession.