On July 12, 1988, a branch of the Tobolsk State Pedagogical Institute named after Dmitri Mendeleev was opened in Nizhnevartovsk.

[1] In 2005, the institute was renamed Nizhnevartovsk State Humanities University.

For several years, based on the annual ranking by the Federal Agency for Education, the university has been among the top ten pedagogical, linguistic, and humanities universities in Russia.

Eighteen educational programs were included in the first, second, third, and fourth leagues of the Subject National Aggregated Ranking by broad fields of study.

The Nizhnevartovsk State University implements research projects on the impacts of humans on the environmental quality of Western Siberia.