162, Sotsialistitcheskaya Street, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, 344022
Deans office: Tel. (007-8632) 65-01-75, 65-45-89;
Fax. (007-8632) 65-57-31; E-mail: rgsu @ jeo. ru

• Rostov State Building University (RSBU) dates back to February 1944 when Rostov Civil Engineering Institute was opened. By order of the Ministry of Common and Vocational Training of Russian Federation the Institute was assumed to the University in February 1997.
• The University during its activity has trained more than 50 000 civil engineers, architects and economists. About 600 post-graduates and doctorates defended their thesis successfully.
• Over 1 500 specialists including 52 Candidates and 2 Doctors of Technical science have been trained in RSBU for 57 foreign states.
• Nowadays more than 6 000 students and about 200 post-graduates get education at 5 Institutes of the University.

LEVEL OF PREPARATION SPECIALISTS IN RSBU

¹	Preparation level	Training duration
1.	Bachelor of Science (BSc)	4 years
2.	Specialist (Engineer)	5 years
3.	Master of Science (MSc)	2 years month after Bachelors degree getting
4.	Candidate of Science (PhD)	3 year more after Bachelors or specialists degree getting
5.	Doctor of Science (DSc)	3 year more after Candidate of Science degree getting

LIST OF SPECIALITIES

Structural subdivision	Speciality			Post ? graduates qualification
	Cipher	Name
Industrial and civil engineering Institute	290300	Industrial and Civil Engineering		Engineer
	291200	Architectural heritage reconstruction and restoration		Engineer ? restorer
	071900	Information systems in Civil Engineering		Informatic
	291400	Structures design		Engineer ? architect
Civil Engineering Technology and Materials Institute	290600	Production of building materials, units and constructions		Civil engineer ? technologist
	291300	Mechanisation and automation in building industry		Engineer
	072000	Standardisation and certification of building articles		Engineer
Highway and Transport Institute	291000	Roads and Aerodromes		Engineer
	240400	Organisation of Road Traffic		Engineer
	240100	Organisation of carriages and industrial transport control		Engineer of load transportation and transport management
	240100	Organisation of carriages and road traffic control		Engineer ? manager
Engineering ? ecological systems Institute	290700	Heat and Gas supply and ventilation		Engineer
	290800	Water supply and sewage		Engineer
	330200	Engineering protection of environment		Engineer
	330400	Fire Safety		Engineer
Economics and management Institute	060800	Economics and Management at enterprises	Economist ? manager
	060500	Accounting and audit	Economist
	061100	Management	Manager
	061500	Marketing	Market ? research specialist
	060400	Finances and Credit	Economist
	052900	Advertising	Advertise ? engineer
	300100	Applied Geodesy	Engineer
	311100	Urban Cadastre	Engineer

• Rostov State Building University trains scientific specialists at post-graduate and Doctorate courses.

  
  
• Future DSc and PhD degree specialists have been studied there. The post-graduate course includes more than 40 specialities.

  
  
• There are thesis defence councils on the following list of specialities at the RSBU:

  05. 23. 01 - Constructions building and structures;
  05. 23. 05 - Building materials and units;
  05. 23. 17 - Building mechanics;
  05. 23. 03 - Heat, Supply, Ventilation, Air conditioning, gas and light supply;
  05. 23. 04 - Water Supply, sewage, engineering systems of water reservoir safety;
  05. 26. 01 - Labour protection and Fire Safety;
  11. 00. 11 - Engineering protection of environment and rational use of water resources;
  05. 24. 01 - Geodesy;
  05. 24. 02 - Spacesurveying, phototopografy, photogrammetry.

• Highly qualified scientists with international appreciation conduct a professional activity at 39 chairs of the University. 9 academicians, 7 corresponding members and councillors of Architecture and Construction Science Academy, 9 Honoured Scientists of Russian Federation are among them. More than 75 per cent of the staff possess the scientific degrees, including 17 per cent professors, Doctor of Science.

  
  
• There are libraries, sport halls, and sport-sanitation complex at the Black Sea coast, a dispensary and three students hostels at the University.