CIS Network Open University’s students are going home

16:09, July 22, 2015

A year of study at UrFU gave them new friends, useful knowledge, skills and competencies

Foreign students, who participated in the program of Network University of the Commonwealth of Independent States, are graduating Ural Federal University and coming back to their home universities. Murodbek Safaraliev from Tajik Technical University (TTU) and Hambardzum Ayvazyan from Yerevan State University were the first-year students of UrFU’s master degree program. The year spent at the university was eventful and useful: the students received important knowledge and skills, and have found good friends.

"We’ve became real friends with my roommate, a student from the Czech Republic. During our vacations or free time we traveled a lot across Russia.  Sverdlovsk region, Perm, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg – unlike most Russians, we both hadn’t been here before, that’s why we decided to travel together; with Russian students we communicated during our study, - commented Murodbek Safaraliev. – The university itself surprised me with its’ technologies and the level of development. The laboratories we had worked in are the best I've ever seen: all the equipment is new, there is a special system of monitoring, etc.  After this experience I am absolutely sure I can find a job – there are not many specialists on the market, who know about electricity and electrical engineering. During study we worked with solar collectors and other equipment, that is why I received not only theoretical knowledge, but also practical skills".

Both students studied "Power and Electrical Engineering" in UrFU, they will continue this program in their home universities. After graduation they will obtain two diplomas of high education.

"I liked to study here: the atmosphere, the relationships between people. I met a lot of people and have found good friends. In our dormitory we had students of 44 nationalities, - said Hambardzum Ayvazyan. - I would like to finish my master degree in UrFU, but the system of Network University doesn’t allow to do it, so I think I’ll come back for postgraduate program".

We would like to mention, that Network Open University of the Commonwealth of Independent States is a grant project of the Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund of the CIS; interuniversity network educational space. Graduate students from different universities of the CIS countries have the opportunity to study at two universities, and obtain two diplomas.