North-Eastern Federal University

NEFU 's total undergraduate student population number is over 20,000. More than 500 students are engaged in postgraduate work. 1,764 academic staff are currently employed at the University. Of these 2...03 hold doctor’s degree, 942 candidate of science degree. 13 Institutes, 5 faculties, 3 NEFu branches in Mirny, Nerungry and Chukotka, 6 major research institutes. 119 degree courses are available to our students. The University occupies 40 buildings and 12 residence halls located mostly in the NEFU campus. The accessible and convivial dimension of the campus makes students feel at home; international students are well integrated as it is easy to contact faculty, administration and other students. There are student canteens almost everywhere throughout the campus that propose different meals at an affordable price. There are 1 500 000 books, periodicals and other items in the University Library. Computer stations make up the NEFU's library resources available to users throughout the campus. Moreover it has access to a reach database of electronic resources including both Russian and foreign periodicals (EBSCO, Science, JSTOR, Oxford University Press etc.) The University has Geology Field Station, Museum of Archeology and Ethnography, Botanical garden and Orangery open to staff and students’ research and study. NEFU has a Stadium, a Swimming Pool, a Social Centre. NEFU was officially established in April 2010th on the basis of M. K. Ammosov Yakutsk State University, the university with 75 yearshistory. The university was named after Maksim Kirovich Ammosov, an outstanding statesman, the son of the Yakut nation and one of the founders of Yakutia and Kyrgizstan statehood. There are 6 scientific research institutions such as the Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of Health, the Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, the Institute of Regional Economy of the North, the Institute of A.E. Kulakovsky, certainly, the Institute of Olonkho.