Today Samara State University is a large scientific, educational and cultural centre of the Volga region with a constantly developing infrastructure. The university being of the classical type preserves the highest educational standards and education quality.The University has three regional branches (in Togliatti, Syzran and Pokhvistnevo). At present Samara State University comprises 10 basic faculties: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mechanics and Mathematics, History, Philology, Sociology, Psychology, Law, Economics and Management. Samara State University also includes faculties of Part-time Training, Pre-University Training, Knowledge Updating, and Specialists Retraining.
Highly qualified faculty consisting of 640 lecturers including 99 doctors of sciences and professors, 16 honoured workers of science teach at 60 departments. Samara State University offers postgraduate training in 51 majors; 2 doctorate and 49 candidate majors. Eight dissertation councils function at the university where candidate and doctoral dissertations are defended.
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Economics and Management
Faculty of Psychology
Faculty of Philology
Faculty of Sociology
Faculty of History
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
Faculty of Physics
Faculty of Chemistry
Faculty of Biology
