KBSU is preparing for the admission campaign — 2023

March 14, 2023 Acting Rector of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov Yuri Altudov held a meeting with the participation of acting. vice-rectors of the university, heads of departments and educational departments on the issue of intensifying career guidance in the natural sciences, engineering and IT areas of training. Opening the meeting, the head of the university spoke about the results of his trips to the Lugansk People’s Republic to the festive events on the occasion of the founding day of the partner university — Lugansk State Pedagogical University, as well as to the Irkutsk region for a meeting of heads of scientific and educational organizations subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation that carry out state assignments for the study of neutrinos and particle astrophysics.

Colleagues from the Lugansk State Pedagogical University expressed their deep gratitude to our university for cooperation, for organizing and conducting retraining courses for teachers and practice for students. It was noted that further cooperation would continue. During the trip to Irkutsk, the development of a national development program in neutrino physics and astrophysics, the “Neutrino Program of the Russian Federation” was discussed. KBSU is perceived as a university that has the right to participate in its projects. This is a very important task for the university both from a scientific standpoint and for the effective training of highly qualified personnel specializing in scientific research in the field of physics,

— Yuri Altudov shared. Denoting the agenda of the meeting, acting rector of KBSU noted:

Now all universities, including participants in the Priority 2030 program, are reworking development programs, in the implementation of which the question of how the admission campaign will go is very important. Today we will discuss which students will come to us, in which areas, how we are ready for this, with an emphasis on engineering and natural science areas.

Aksana Karasheva, head of the Department for career guidance and pre-university training, said about the tasks to be solved in the process of preparing for the 2023 admissions campaign, including those related to the intensification of career guidance work in technical areas:

Now a lot of attention is paid to those universities where training in engineering and technical areas. I would like to note that our university annually receives good admission figures in these areas. For the 2023/2024 academic year, the university received 485 budget places at the undergraduate level for technical training areas implemented at the Institute of Physics and Mathematics, the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies, the Institute of Architecture, Construction and Design, the Institute of Informatics, Electronics and Robotics; Master’s level — 192 state-funded places. According to the latest data, the total number of USE participants in the KBR in 2023 was 4500, which is 148 less than the previous year.

In three subjects — computer science, chemistry and biology — an increase in those wishing to pass the exam is recorded. This means that in our republic even more school graduates choose their future profession in the field of medicine or in the field of IT. At the same time, a decrease in interest in the subject «Physics» is recorded. The average USE score of those enrolled in KBSU in 2022 to study at the expense of the budget allocations of the federal budget in all 42 areas of training implemented at the university was 66.4. Moreover, this indicator is somewhat lower in the natural sciences, engineering and IT areas.

A. Karasheva recalled that the average score is one of the important indicators for the accreditation of educational programs in accordance with the new system for assessing the quality of the implementation of educational programs. During the subsequent discussion, acting rector of KBSU urged his colleagues to focus on career guidance work with graduates of schools and colleges in all structural divisions of the university in order to attract good, highly motivated applicants and bring the average USE score to 70, as in top universities.

The number of graduates of schools and organizations of secondary vocational education in the region is sufficient to achieve the intended targets. The main thing is to attract them to the university,

— summed up Yuri Altudov.

Translated by Gekkieva J.A.