PhD Programs
Please note, for enrollment to any Russian-taught PhD program your Russian language level should be at least B2. If you do not know Russian, you can complete one year training program at the Pre-University Department.
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The program is designed to train highly qualified scientific and pedagogical personnel for work in universities and research institutions. Postgraduate students study modern aspects of functional analysis, theory and applications of functional differential equations and inclusions - branches of mathematics that are of great theoretical and applied importance in the mathematical modeling of various processes in biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, sociology, economics and other rapidly developing fields of science and technology.
Career opportunities: Faculty member, specialist-researcher in the field of differential equations and mathematical physics.Key disciplines:
Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics
Theory of Functional-differential Inclusions and Control Problems
The program is designed to train highly qualified scientific and pedagogical personnel for work in universities and research institutions. Postgraduate students study modern aspects of condensed matter physics, which are of great theoretical and applied importance in materials science and the design of new materials and structures, taking into account modern requirements for operational characteristics.
Career opportunities: Faculty member, specialist-researcher in the field of condensed matter physics.Key disciplines:
Condensed Matter Physics
Methods of Teaching Physical, Technical and Engineering Disciplines
Electrophysical Methods for Stabilizing Mechanical Properties of Materials
Physical Principles of the Nanoindentation Method in Solid State Physics
Physics of Surface Phenomena
The program is designed to train highly qualified scientific and pedagogical personnel and form a complex of knowledge on ecology in graduate students in the system of their relationship with other sciences, as the basis for assessing and comprehensively analyzing the ecological patterns of the development of the biosphere for the subsequent application of this knowledge in professional activities.
Career opportunities: Biologist-researcher, lecturer-researcher.Key disciplines:
Current Ecology and Global Environmental Problems
Regional Problems of Flora and Fauna Protection
Methods of Physiological Research
The program is designed to train highly qualified scientific and pedagogical personnel to solve problems that require application of fundamental and applied knowledge in the field of Earth Sciences.
Career opportunities: Geographic engineer, geographer-researcher, specialist in the field of subject area analysis and formulation of requirements for developed systems.Key disciplines:
Economic, social, political and recreational geography
Methods of teaching specialized disciplines in the field of Earth sciences
The Purpose of the program is to train highly qualified scientific and pedagogical personnel and to form a complex of knowledge on geoecology in the system of their interrelation with other sciences, as a basis for assessing and comprehensive analysis of geoecological patterns of biosphere development for the subsequent application of this knowledge in professional activities.
Career opportunities: Teacher of higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of geoecology.Key disciplines:
Geoecology
Methods of Teaching Environmental Disciplines
The program is designed to train highly qualified scientific and pedagogical personnel for work in universities and research institutions. Postgraduate students are preparing a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences (PhD in Technical Sciences) in the field of development and application of methods for system analysis of complex applied research objects, information processing, targeted human impact on research objects, including issues of analysis, modeling, optimization, improvement of management and decision-making, with the aim of improving the efficiency of the functioning of research objects.
Career opportunities: Faculty member, specialist-researcher in the field of system analysis, information management and processing.Key disciplines:
System Analysis, Information Management and Processing
Methods and Algorithms for Intellectual support of Management Decision Making
The purpose of the program is to prepare students for research activities in the field of chemical technology and for teaching activities in educational programs of higher education.
Career opportunities: Researcher, senior Researcher, faculty member.Key disciplines:
Scientific Research
Physical Chemistry of Nanomaterials
Current Issues of Modern Chemistry
The program is designed to train scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel both in the field of medical sciences, medical industry, professional education of a medical profile, and in the field of scientific specialty Public Health and Healthcare Organization, Sociology and History.
Career opportunities: Teacher of higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of traumatology and orthopedics.Key disciplines:
Traumatology and Orthopedics
Methods of Teaching Specialized Disciplines in Traumatology and Orthopedics
Vertebrology
The program is designed to train scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel both in the field of medical sciences, medical industry, professional education of a medical profile, and in the field of scientific specialty Public Health and Healthcare Organization, Sociology and History.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in public health and organization of health care, sociology and history of medicine.Key disciplines:
Public Health and Health Care, Sociology and History of Medicine
Scientific Approaches to Modeling and Forecasting in Medical and Social Research
Philosophical, Historical and Local History Aspects of the Development of Medicine and Healthcare in the Tambov Region
The purpose of the program is methodological training of postgraduate students in order to ensure high-quality, in-depth and meaningful scientific research in the preparation of candidate dissertations; perfect mastery of modern categorical-conceptual apparatus, identification of patterns of formation and development of state-legal institutions and phenomena.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of theoretical and historical legal sciences.Key disciplines:
Theoretical and Historical Legal Sciences
History and Methodology of the Legal Science
Problems of the History of Legal and Political Doctrines
The program is designed to train scientific and pedagogical personnel gaining fundamental knowledge in the field of criminal legal sciences, capable of conducting high-quality scientific research on the most relevant theoretical and applied problems of modern criminal law and legal proceedings, as well as application of this knowledge in subsequent research, pedagogical and practical activities.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of criminal legal sciences.Key disciplines:
Methods of Teaching Criminal Law Disciplines
Criminal Policy: Issues of Theory and Practice
Criminal Legal Sciences
The program is designed to train highly qualified personnel in the field of management and state regulation of the regional economy, capable of performing both applied tasks related to the functioning of regional enterprises, markets, industries and economic complexes, as well as the researcher’s inquiry for effective solutions in this area.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of regional economy.Key disciplines:
Regional and Sectoral Economy
Strategy for the Development of Regional Economy
The program is designed to train highly qualified personnel in the field of management, capable of performing both applied tasks related to the management of enterprises, organizations and economic complexes, as well as the researcher’s inquiry for effective solutions in the field of management.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of management.Key disciplines:
Management
HR Management
The program is designed to train PhD students both theoretically and practically to prepare them for independent research and practical activities in the field of educational psychology and for provision of psychological assistance to the subjects of pedagogical activity by forming a holistic theoretical understanding of the patterns, mechanisms and driving forces of the processes of development and formation of the psyche in anthropogenesis, in different cultures , at different stages of the life cycle, occurring under certain external and internal conditions, as well as the skills and abilities to effectively use the acquired knowledge in the process of planning and conducting psychological and pedagogical research and putting their results into practice.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions; researcher in the field of educational psychology, psychodiagnostics of digital educational environments .Key disciplines:
Pedagogical Psychology, Psychodiagnostics of Digital Educational Environments
Psychology of Professional Pedagogical Communication
Psychology of Teaching Activity
The program is designed for PhD students to form a holistic theoretical understanding of the patterns, mechanisms and driving forces of the processes of development and formation of the psyche in anthropogenesis, in different cultures, at different stages of the life cycle, occurring under certain external and internal conditions, as well as to form skills and abilities for effective use of acquired knowledge in the process of research activities.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of developmental psychology.Key disciplines:
Developmental Psychology
Psychology of Personal Self-fulfilment
Personal Development Training
The program is designed to form and consolidate skills of research activities in the field of theory, methodology and history of sociology, social structure, social institutions and processes, sociology of culture and spiritual life; teaching activities in educational programs of higher education.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of sociology of culture.Key disciplines:
Sociology of Culture
Methods of Teaching Sociological Disciplines
Sociology of Spiritual Life
The program is designed to reveal a holistic picture of historical processes in the countries of Europe and America in modern and contemporary times. The most important component of the educational program Historical Sciences and Archeology, specialization (profile) General History (Modern and Contemporary History) is training graduate students for professional activities in higher education. As part of research work in the field of modern and contemporary history, graduate students gain experience in preparing scientific publications and performing scientific qualification work (dissertation) for the degree of candidate of historical sciences.
Career opportunities: History professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in specialized academic institutions, director of a museum or archive.Key disciplines:
General History (Modern and Contemporary History)
National Self-consciousness of the Peoples of Central and South-Eastern Europe in the 18th – 19th Centuries.
Professional Development of a Teacher of Specialized Disciplines
The program id designed to reveal a holistic picture of the historical process in Russia in the 18th - 20th centuries. The most important component of the educational program is training graduate students for professional activities in higher education. As part of research work in the field of modern and contemporary history, graduate students gain experience in preparing scientific publications and performing scientific qualification work (dissertation) for the degree of candidate of historical sciences.
Career opportunities: History professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in specialized academic institutions, director of a museum or archive.Key disciplines:
National History
Socio-demographic History of Russia
Professional Development of a Teacher of Specialized Disciplines
The purpose of the implementation of the main educational program is to reveal a holistic picture of the historical process in the countries of Europe and America in Modern and Modern times. The most important component of the educational program is the preparation of graduate students for professional activity in higher education. As part of research work in the field of modern and contemporary history, graduate students gain experience in preparing scientific publications and performing scientific qualification work (dissertation) for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences.
Career opportunities: Teacher of higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of universal history.Key disciplines:
General history
Methods of teaching specialized disciplines in the field of history
The program is designed to train professional scientists and teachers who have excellent knowledge of philosophical knowledge, who are able to claim and revive mental experience of the past in the space of modern worldview needs and in relation to solving theoretical problems in the natural sciences and the humanities.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in history of philosophy.Key disciplines:
National History
Socio-demographic History of Russia
Professional Development of a Teacher of Specialized Disciplines
The program is designed to train scientific and pedagogical personnel of the highest qualification: teachers-researchers who are able to conduct interdisciplinary research in the field of general pedagogy and history of education, to conduct effective teaching activities in educational programs of higher education.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of general pedagogy, history of pedagogy and education.Key disciplines:
Methods of Teaching Pedagogical Disciplines
Technologies for Creating Scientific, Educational publications and Projects
The program is designed to train specialists who are able to explore pedagogical processes, educational systems and their patterns. The objectives of the program are to determine how to solve the problems of modern education, science, culture and social sphere, taking into account the use of modern knowledge of the problematic field of social pedagogy, understanding the theory of social education and analyzing the methodology of pedagogy, social pedagogy and social upbringing.
Career opportunities: Head of educational institutions, head in the system of social protection of the population, professor at a university, college.Key disciplines:
Theory and Methods of Education and Upbringing (Social Upbringing)
Professional Development of a Teacher of Specialized Disciplines in the Field of Theory and Methods of Social Upbringing in Higher Education
Theory and methods of Education and Upbringing (Social Upbringing)
The program is designed to train teachers of foreign languages, linguistic and linguodidactic disciplines for work at a university, as well as a researcher in the field of teaching foreign languages.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of theory and methods of education and upbringing (foreign languages).Key disciplines:
Theory and Methods Education and Upbringing (Foreign Languages)
Methods of Teaching Linguistic and Linguodidactic Disciplines
The program is designed to train researchers in the field of health-improving and adapted physical education of various categories of population.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of health-improving and adapted physical education.Key disciplines:
Health-Improving and Adapted Physical Education (Studying the methodology of health-improving and adapted physical education; mastering the ability to determine the main directions of fundamental and applied research on the scientific substantiation of its content; development of the ability to independently carry out research activities).
The program is designed to train highly qualified personnel in the field of Russian literature. The training of graduate students is based on the achievements of the internationally renowned scientific school "Studying Russian Literature in the National Cultural Context" (supervisor - Professor L.V. Polyakova, Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Philology).
Career opportunities: Researcher, professor researcher.Key disciplines:
Russian Literature
Problem Situations in Modern Literary Terminology
Practice for Obtaining Professional Skills and Professional Experience
The program is designed to train a specialist (candidate of philological sciences) in the field of history and the current state of the literature of the Germanic and Romance language families for research and teaching activities in educational institutions and scientific organizations.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, Researcher in the field of literature of peoples of the world.Key disciplines:
Literature of the Peoples of the World (Literature of the Countries of the Germanic and Romance Language Families)
Current Methods of Literary Text Research
The program is designed to train elite scientific and pedagogical personnel of the highest qualification, young scientists in the field of science and education, who are able to independently and creatively conduct research in the scientific specialty "Russian Language".
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, media correspondent, editor or proofreader of publishing houses.Key disciplines:
Russian
History of the Russian Language
Text Theories
The program is designed to train researchers in the field of philology, linguistics and related fields of humanitarian scientific activity (special attention is paid to the study of theoretical and functional aspects of the languages of the Germanic group, their development, current state and features of functioning, common origin), as well as to prepare PhD students for teaching activities (development of training courses in areas of professional activity on the basis of the results of theoretical and empirical research, including preparation of methodological materials, teaching aids and textbooks; teaching philological disciplines and educational and methodological work in areas of professional activity; conducting research work in an educational organization, including management of research work of students).
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of Germanic languages.Key disciplines:
Languages of Peoples of Foreign Countries (Germanic Languages)
Linguistic and Cultural Issues of Modern German Studies
The program is designed to train and prepare PhD students for research activities in the field of philology, linguistics and related fields of humanitarian scientific activity (special attention is paid to the study of theoretical and functional aspects of the languages of the Germanic group, their development, current state and features of functioning, common origin), as well as to teaching activities (development of training courses in areas of professional activity, including the ones based on the results of theoretical and empirical research, including preparation of methodological materials, teaching aids and textbooks; teaching philological disciplines and educational and methodological work in areas of professional activity; conducting research work in an educational organization, including supervision of research work of students).
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions; researcher in theoretical, applied, and comparative and contrastive linguistics.Key disciplines:
Theoretical, Applied, and Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics
Cognitive and Linguoculturological Aspects of the Study of Vocabulary
The program is designed to train and prepare graduate students for research activities in the field of media communications and journalism. Within the framework of the program, studies of convergent processes in the media space are carried out; studying at an in-depth level the representation of socio-cultural processes in media communications, the mechanisms and principles of the functioning of mass communication tools and mass media. Under the program PhD students conduct research that reveals their capacity for innovation, media competence and media literacy; develop the ability to independently set current and future tasks of scientific research in the field of media communications and journalism, to solve them with the help of modern methods and technologies. The ability for historical-functional and comparative analysis of the most important phenomena in the field of journalism and media, critical perception of socio-cultural processes in media communications, conceptual understanding of the problems of modern media education is being improved. The skills of developing various types of scientific communication are being developed to solve professional problems in the field of mass media and communication, the ability to develop and implement scientific projects and teaching activities in educational programs of higher education.
Career opportunities: Professor at higher educational institutions, researcher in the field of media communications.