[15] The University has three branches (Miass, Troitsk, and Kostanay (Kazakhstan)), and 13 offices (Argayash, Verkhniy Ufaley, Zlatoust, Shadrinsk, Kopeysk, Orsk, Nyazepetrovsk, Trekhgorny, Yuzhnouralsk, Satka, Kyshtym, Varna, Ust-Katav).

Matushkin, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, became the first rector of Chelyabinsk State University.

Foreign citizens without knowledge of the Russian language are enrolled in preparatory one-year course.

[18] Foreign citizens without knowledge of the Russian language are enrolled in preparatory one-year course.

Problematic Areas of Media Education" by the Faculty of Journalism of the Chelyabinsk State University has been included in the European Reference Index of the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) which is a reference database for the humanities and the social sciences.