Samara State Economic University (SSEU) (Russian: Самарский государственный экономический университет) is a public university located in Samara, Russia that was founded in 1931.
[2][3] Samara State University of Economics was established in 1931 as the Middle Volga Planning and Economic Institute by the Decree of the USSR Council of People's Commissars when planners identified an urgent need to train a new generation of industrial and technical experts to foster industrialization in the Middle Volga region covering the areas of Samara, Ulyanovsk, Penza, Orenburg regions and Mordovia.
During this time it expanded the campus with academic buildings, gymnasiums, a hostel, and a food production facility.
In the 1970s, the university employed up to 200 full-time researchers, more than 100 part-time teachers, and 200 postgraduate students.
Since the 1990s, the university has added the following specialties: The university teaches 22 specialties, 13 bachelor's degrees, and 5 master's degrees with about ten thousand students each year under about 500 instructors at the university, 70% of whom have academic degrees and titles.