GAUGN offers a broad range of courses at undergraduate and graduate levels — from international relations, political science, economics, to psychology, business management, and culture science. All courses are regularly taught in Russian; however, our increasingly international academic staff offers lectures and seminars in English. Besides, a number of language courses are given by native speakers.
GAUGN is on an unceasing move up. GAUGN is one of Russia’s outstanding universities with the focus on a broad field of humanities. GAUGN’s 10 schools and 75 educational programmes (undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate) cover from business management to archaeology, from Chinese philosophy to practical psychology, as a rule representing those research schools where Russian academicians and academics retain global leadership.
Many students of the State Academic University for the Humanities according to their academic major apply for internships in various organisations and businesses. For instance, international students can get an internship in the Embassies, and there are running collaboration programmes with the parliament of the City of Moscow, governmental and academic institutions, a number of international partners all over the world.
The State Academic University for the Humanities offers curriculae developed by experienced staff working at research institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences – an umbrella organization for outstanding Russian think tanks.
The University students enjoy close access to and real working experience with more than 2000 professors and Doctors of Science, including associate and full members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. GAUGN’s edge is based on the integration of academic science and university education.
GAUGN is distinguished by top-rate academic classical higher education and focuses on fostering a community which will allow its graduates to acquire professional contacts lasting well beyond their student years. Lots of GAUGN alumni who have advanced to positions of leadership in science, civil service or the private sector, keep up close ties with their alma mater and help the university students to find opportunities of career and personal development.
GAUGN students run a number of social and musical events, including a film club, a music festival, or various forms of charity activities. The University actively supports its students’ social and cultural engagement, and GAUGN’s location is close to Moscow’s important cultural landmarks, which helps our students, local and international, to be plunged in a vibrant social life of the Russian capital and partake of its unparalleled diversity in full.
