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Postgraduate study

Liudmila A. Kruglova
Director of Postgraduate Study Department
Tel: +7 (846) 334 54 22
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Samara State University provides postgraduate and doctoral education since 1974. At present SSU offers 49 postgraduate programmes and 9 doctoral programmes. Samara State University houses 9 dissertation councils where candidate and doctoral dissertations are defended.
At present more than a hundred scientific supervisors tutor 360 enrolled and unenrolled postgraduate students. Annually Samara State University enrolls about 80 students for postgraduate study. SSU provides postgraduate and doctoral education on a budgetary (state-financed) and contractual basis.

Foreign applicants (including citizens of the Commonwealth of Independent States) are also admitted to doctoral and postgraduate education programs as well as unenrolled postgraduate and doctoral studies both on the basis of international contracts and agreements and on contractual basis.

Postgraduate study majors:
01.00.00. Physical and Mathematical Sciences

01.01.00. Mathematics

01.01.01. Substantial, Complex and Functional Analysis
01.01.02. Differential Equations, Dynamical system and Optimal Control
01.01.05. Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics
01.01.06. Mathematical Logic, Algebra and Theory of Numbers

01.02.00. Mechanics

01.02.04. Deformable Body Mechanics
01.02.05. Fluid, Gas and Plasma Mechanics

01.04.00. Physics
01.04.02 Theoretical Physics
01.04.03. Radiophysics
01.04.05. Optics
01.04.07. Condensed Matter Physics
01.04.10. Semiconductor Physics
01.04.16. Nuclear and Particle Physics
01.04.21. Laser Physics

02.00.00. Chemical Sciences

02.00.01. Inorganic Chemistry
02.00.02. Analytical Chemistry
02.00.03. Organic Chemistry
02.00.04. Physical Chemistry

03.00.00.  Biological Sciences

03.01.00 Psysicochemical Biology


03.01.04. Biochemistry

03.02.00 General Biology

03.02.01. Botany
03.02.08. Ecology

03.03.00 Physiology

03.03.01. Physiology

05.00.00. Technical Sciences

05.13.18. Mathematic Simulation, Numerical Techniques and Software Systems

07.00.00. Historical Sciences

07.00.02. National History
07.00.03. General History (Modern and Contemporary History)
07.00.06. Archeology
07.00.09. Historiography, Source Studies and Approaches to Historical Studies

08.00.00. Economic Sciences

08.00.05. Economics and Management of the National Economy

09.00.00. Philosophic Sciences

09.00.01. Ontology and Epistemology
09.00.11. Social Philosophy

10.00.00. Philological Sciences

10.01.00. Literary Studies
10.01.01. Russian Literature
10.01.03. Literature of Foreign Countries (with an indication of a particular literature)
10.01.08. Literary Theory. Texology.

10.02.00. Linguistics

10.02.01. Russian Language
10.02.04. Germanic Languages

12.00.00. Law

12.00.02. Constitutional Law; Municipal Law
12.00.03. Civil Law; Business Law; Family Law; Civil Procedure; International Civil Law
12.00.08. Criminal Law and Criminology; Executive Criminal Law
12.00.09. Criminal Procedure, Forensics and Legal Expertise; Criminal Investigation
12.00.15. Civil Procedure; Arbitral Procedure

13.00.00. Pedagogical Sciences

13.00.01. General Pedagogy and History of Pedagogy and Education
13.00.08. Theory and Methods of Teaching

19.00.00. Psychological Sciences

19.00.01. General Psychology, Personality Psychology and History of Psychology
19.00.07. Educational Psychology

22.00.00. Sociological Sciences

22.00.01. Theory, Methodology and History of Sociology
22.00.03. Economic Sociology and Demography
22.00.04. Social Structure, Social Institutions and Developments

23.00.00. Political Sciences

23.00.01. Theory, History and Methodology of Politics

23.00.02. Political Institutions, Political Developments and Technologies

24.00.00. Cultural Studies

24.00.01. Theory and History of Culture

Doctoral study majors

07.00.00. Historical Sciences

07.00.02. National History

09.00.00. Philosophic Sciences

09.00.11. Social Philosophy

10.00.00. Philological Sciences

10.01.01. Russian Literature

13.00.00. Pedagogical Sciences

13.00.08. Theory and Methods of Teaching


Dissertation Councils at Samara State University:
212.218.01 Physical and Mathematical Sciences
212.218.02 Historical Sciences
212.218.03 Pedagogical Sciences
212.218.04 Chemical Sciences
212.218.05 Philosophic Sciences
212.218.07 Philological Sciences
212.218.08 Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
212.218.09 Jurisprudence