Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU) was established in June 2010 by merging a number of leading Arkhangelsk higher educational institutions. It includes 7 higher schools, 2 institutes, 3 colleges and 3 branches providing educational services to over 17,000 students. Staff consists of over 1160 lecturers. NArFU has more than 70 agreements of international cooperation with partner universities.

One of the major NArFU research focuses is the Arctic development. Core areas of NArFU academic focus are high technologies and knowledge-intensive sectors, infrastructure development and Northern Sea Route, natural resources management, environmental protection and climate change, health and well-being, social sphere and human resources in the High North.

As a federal university NArFU develops a system of higher professional education that will optimize regional educational structures and strengthen links between educational institutions and economic and social spheres in the North-West of Russia.

Facts and figures

Web	http://www.narfu.ru
Year Established	2010
Total Number of Staff	4165
Number of Academic Staff	1163
Number of Students	19000
Focus Areas	Building engineering in a cold climate environment Environmental management Maritime oil and gas constructions Ecological monitoring and environmental safety Industrial biotechnology and bioengineering Shipbuilding Ship power plants Industrial economics Hydrometeorology IT for analysis of remote-sensing data on ice moving Information and space systems for ecological management Applied geology Medicine biophysics Nuclear physics and technologies
Web link for international students	https://narfu.ru/en/
Fields of Study Offered	Teacher training and education science (broad programmes) Arts (broad programmes) Humanities (broad programmes) Social and behavioural science (broad programmes) Business and administration (broad programmes) Law (broad programmes) Physical science (broad programmes) Engineering and engineering trades (broad programmes) Manufacturing and processing (broad programmes) Agriculture, forestry and fishery (broad programmes) Environmental protection (broad programmes)

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Latest programs

Master History and Culture of the Circumpolar World: comparative research
Master Arctic Law
Master European Studies: Arctic Focus
Master Environmental Risks Management in the Arctic (ERMA)
Bachelor Diverse Arctic: Local Challenges — Global Changes
Master EU and Russia in the Arctic: History of Cultural and Political Interaction
Bachelor Russian Studies Programme

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Latest courses

PhD International PhD School “Russia in the Arctic Dialogue: Local and Global Context”
Bachelor Master PhD Other Summer School in Arctic Law
Bachelor Master PhD Other Arctic Floating University

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