Postgraduate study
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Liudmila A. Kruglova |
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





