Syktyvkar State University

Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University (Russian: Сыктывкарский государственный университет имени Питирима Сорокина; Komi: Сыктывкарса канму университет) is a public university in the city of Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic (Russia).

With over 9,000 full-time students and more than 600 faculty members,[1] it is the largest institution of higher education in the Komi Republic.

[2] The university includes 13 institutes and 52 departments and offers programmes at bachelor, master and doctoral levels in the fields of the mathematical and natural sciences, technology, humanities, law, medicine, economics, management, pedagogics and art.

[3] Syktyvkar State university actively participates in international partnership programmes and cooperation.

[4] It is a member of the cooperative network University of the Arctic, which concerns with education and research in the North.