Irkutsk State Linguistic University (Russian: Иркутский государственный лингвистический университет (ИГЛУ)) was a university in Irkutsk, Siberia in eastern Russia founded in 1948.

In 2016, it was integrated into Irkutsk State University as the newly created Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages and Media Communication .

[1] The university consists of two institutes (Institute of Cross-cultural Communication and Institute of Educational Technologies) and two independent faculties (Social Sciences Faculty and Education-by-Correspondence Faculty).

A national license empowers the university to train professionals in 17 major areas at 10 faculties.

The qualification granted is 'Linguist-translator of English/German' Second higher education ISLU offers the following higher education opportunities to holders of non-linguistic university qualifications: