University Students Can Get an Additional IT Specialty For Free

14:09, September 8, 2022

On September 11, the enrollment for the "Digital Department" courses was completed

The Ural Federal University is completing the recruitment of students to receive a diploma of professional retraining in IT. The university offers 25 educational programs.

The education will allow students to obtain the most demanded IT competencies in the field of programming, data processing and analysis, digitalization of the economy. The programs can be used by full-time and part-time students, undergraduate programs starting from the second year, specialty programs starting from the third year, undergraduates from non-IT areas can also study at the Digital Department programs from the first semester.

The competencies obtained within the framework of the project will allow the student of UrFU to become a unique and sought-after specialist in the labor market with a different salary level upon leaving the university. In order to achieve such a result, the university actively involves representatives of IT companies and industrial partners in the development and implementation of programs, carries out verification of the content of programs with representatives of the ANO "Digital Economy" and ANO "Innopolis University".

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.