Student-centred environment
Academic consulting, accommodation,
support and guidance, cultural events, visa support,
pick-up service upon arrival.
Tomsk Polytechnic University has
the great experience of international students training.
Institute for International Education (IIE) is a department
of the university, aimed at providing opportune and
successful learning and associated supported services
to students from various countries. Orientation program
helps you to settle in a new socio-cultural environment
in the shortest possible time. Each new student is
provided with appropriate personal curriculum according
to his/her needs. Well-qualified academic staff helps
every student to display his/her talents and to become
successful in studying. Students from South Korea,
India, Cyprus, Switzerland, China, Malaysia, Germany,
Vietnam, Czech Republic, and the Netherlands start
their studying in small groups by supervising of considerate
academics and instructors.
Modern facilities - new buildings,
laboratories, up-to-date computer equipment, free
Internet access, free library giving access to world-wide
electronic resources, comfortable hostels located
in 10-15 minutes’ walk from university buildings
– ensure individual success of every student
and make them feel at home. Numerous gyms, sport halls,
sport grounds are available for you. You can go in
for basketball, volleyball, tennis, swimming, aerobics,
football and many other sports. While studying in
Tomsk you have an excellent chance to enjoy winter
getting the unique opportunity to go in for winter
sports: snowboard, mounting skiing, skating, winter
football (soccer) that is highly popular among Tomsk
students. Exciting impressions of staying in Tomsk
will encourage you to come back here.
So many friends!
Friendly atmosphere on TPU campus
makes students’ life here comfortable, interesting
and unforgettable. You will be involved in diverse
and interesting students life. While studying the
international university environment you will meet
students from different countries and, surely, find
many new friends among them. Your free time will be
filled with different parties, cultural programs,
holidays, sport classes, competitions, discotheques
and many other events.
International Students’ Club
is always ready to meet new friends. Excursions, picnics,
holidays (including the holidays of your own country),
familiarizing with national traditions and cultures
of different countries, various sport activities,
occupation in drama and dancing studios and other
entertainments will encourage you to develop your
talents. The club helps newcomers to settle in new
environment. Council of the club consists of students
from different countries. The club closely cooperates
with other universities and cultural societies of
Tomsk.
Waiting to be discovered
Russia, the biggest
country in the world, is located in the eastern part
of Europe and the northern part of Asia. It occupies
17, 075, 400 square kilometers. The capital of Russia
is Moscow. Russia is a multinational state: except
Russians, there are 100 different nationalities to
consider Russia to be their homeland.
In addition to the colorful and
political history of the country Russia has for centuries
been known as a country of high intelligence, art
and sciences. What could be more satisfying that studying
the rich history of the country at a spot and experiencing
the Russian art forms, like classical and modern ballet,
opera, museums, theatre, art museums, etc. Russia
is a country of many famous names: Peter the Great,
Anna Pavlova, Rimskij-Korsakov, Alexander Pushkin,
Anton Chekhov, Lev Tolstoy, Peter Tchaikovsky, etc.
The well-known fact is that Russia
is a country with a great scientific potential that
is being integrated with European one may bring significant
results for the world scientific community.
Tomsk is
located almost in the geographical centre of Russia.
Though it was founded in 1604 and has rich and interesting
history it’s really attractive nowadays as never
before. Tomsk is an educational and scientific centre
with rich traditions of high education. Six state
universities operate here. Young people from different
Russian cities and other countries come here for studying.
Every sixth citizen of Tomsk is a student that’s
why it is called a students’ city.
You can find Tomsk to be quiet,
safe and hospitable. Roman-Catholic church, synagogue,
mosque and Orthodox temples situated in Tomsk let
every person to meet his spiritual wishes and to have
appropriate spiritual life.
Small wooden houses with carved
ornaments, temples and chapels, small churches and
historical monuments make Tomsk unusual and the unique
one.
Modern city with the population
of 600 000 people can’t make anybody indifferent:
numerous theatres, museums, art galleries, cinema
theatres, nightclubs, restaurants, cafes invite you
to enjoy yourselves spending time there.
During your holidays you can visit
cities and towns nearby Tomsk or make fascinating
tours to Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cultural
and historical centres of Russia.
