More than 250 students from St Petersburg, Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk visited the St Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering on 20 March. The career guidance event was organized by the SPbGASU admissions committee as part of the all-Russian program “Lift to the Future.” Its goal was to attract applicants from various regions of Russia, to show the full range of opportunities for obtaining professional education at our university.

Welcoming the students, Vice-Rector for Educational Activity Sergey Mikhailov emphasized that professionally oriented applicants are an important part of the university’s ecosystem. At SPbGASU they can go through all stages of personal and professional growth, become sought-after specialists, and build an academic career.

"MADE’IRA" performing

The Kirpich Student Creativity Club showed the audience an incendiary concert. The visitors could watch performances by the contemporary dance studio “MADE’IRA”, soloist Yana Alferova, the hip-hop dance studio ARCHITECH, and the KVN team “Kare”.

At the dialogue platform “Everything about SPbGASU,” admissions committee specialist and student Aleksandra Danilova introduced schoolchildren to the university. Future applicants learned about popular fields of study, how to submit documents, and how many extra points are given by certain individual achievements. Aleksandra Danilova concluded her speech with numbers: SPbGASU is the only specialized university in the North-West; it has 6 faculties; the average admissions score in 2023 was 72; number of budget places in 2023 – 1799.

Students and teachers of SPbGASU prepared interactive and master classes for schoolchildren with elements of professional tests, during which they could learn the basics of lay-out, try on an industrial exoskeleton, and work with polymer putty.

Deputy Dean for Career Guidance Counceling, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Construction Economics and Housing and Utility Infrastructure Artemy Taranov presented a new free simulator for the construction company SmallBuild. Its user takes on the role of a company owner: he needs to rent equipment, pay wages, select and implement construction projects. In this way, the children will learn what the work of economists and managers is.

The head of the Department of Transport Maintenance, Igor Chernyaev, told schoolchildren about the technologies for the development of vehicles and automotive components, which are taught at the Faculty of Automobile and Road Building. In connection with the opening of the AvtoVAZ engineering center in St Petersburg, this knowledge is especially relevant: the teacher reported on negotiations between the company and SPbGASU regarding cooperation in the field of training engineers. Schoolchildren were able to not only evaluate the prototypes made by students, but also try their hand at creating a 3D model. Igor Chernyaev explained that this is only the first stage of work: further engineering knowledge will be required: how to process these models, evaluate them in terms of strength and durability, and build a real structure based on them. All this is taught at SPbGASU.

• On a tour of the university, schoolchildren visited the Scientific and Technical Library, the Department of Drawing, a model workshop, the St Petersburg Brick History Museum, laboratories.

“The Admissions Committee team has been preparing for such a large-scale event for several months. We knew that many guys would come to us from far away. Among them will be students of specialized classes, as well as children of employees of the Etalon group of companies, including those who once graduated from SPbGASU. We wanted to show our university from all sides, and we are satisfied with the result. Everything worked out,” commented Elvira Tkachenko, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Admissions Committee.