Annually applicants across the country make a vital choice - they are determined with a future profession. Many universities - institutes, universities and academies , offer training in the same specialties. There are natural questions: what is better than an institute or a university, where to enter after the 11th grade ? How does the institute differ from the university?
Each educational institution has a state status, determined by the accreditation board of the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science. This status every five years requires confirmation by presenting the results of activities for the five-year period for an integrated assessment by the competent commission.
To determine what is the difference between the institute and the university, let's try to find out which basic criteria determine the status of a higher education institution.
Criteria characterizing the status of the university:
- qualification level of the teaching staff;
- number of graduate students;
- profile education;
- scientific activity.
University and Institute - the difference
- The Institute is an educational institution that provides training, retraining and professional development of specialists in a narrowly defined field of professional activity. In principle, the institute can be trained even for one profession. The university trains specialists in various fields, at least in seven specialties. In addition, the university provides training, retraining and advanced training of highly qualified specialists, as well as scientific and scientific and teaching staff.
- The Institute should carry out scientific research in one or several spheres. In all universities, according to the statute, fundamental and applied research should be carried out in several scientific fields, but not less than in five branches of science.
- At the institute, for every hundred students there may be less than two graduate students. At the university, there are at least four graduate students per 100 students.
- The number of teachers with academic degrees and academic degrees in the institute can be from 25 to 55%. At the university, at least 60% of the teaching staff should be with academic degrees and titles.
- After graduation from the postgraduate course, at least 25% of graduate students should be protected at the university. The institute does not have strict requirements for the protection of graduate students, but if 25% of post-graduate students have defended after graduate school, the institute can apply for an increase in status to the university. In case of non-compliance with requirements in exceptional cases, a reverse transition is possible.
- The average annual amount of funding for research conducted at the university today is more than 10 million rubles, at the institute - at least 1.5 million, but not more than 5 million rubles in the last five years.
- Both in the institute and in the university innovative methods of teaching, self-education and research should be involved, but at the university students must be provided with access to electronic library resources.
- The institute can be a part of another educational institution, the university is always only an autonomous institution. Part
University can be included in the institute.
Apparently, there are some differences between the university and the institute, although they are not so significant. For example, earlier in the USSR it was traditionally believed that the university gives a fundamental education, and the institute - an education of an applied nature. Now there is no such obvious difference. The basis for choosing a higher education institution should be the rating of universities, which is periodically adjusted. In addition, state institutions are more secure than non-state educational institutions.