Surgut State University is located in the city of Surgut, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra, Western Siberia. It was founded in 1993 on the initiative of the Government of Ugra.
The University combines six educational Institutes employing seven hundred people of academic and teaching staff.
There are over seven thousand and five hundred of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students at the University. SurGU provides many undergraduate, master and postgraduate programmes in the following areas: Engineering, Science, Law, Medicine, Humanities, Economics and Management.
The University cooperates with the secondary schools and colleges of Surgut and Surgut district providing them with the training courses in Programming, Operating Systems Administrating, Chemistry, and Electrical Engineering. Such cooperation gives the pupils an excellent opportunity to choose their future profession.