Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov (BSTU) was founded in 1957. According to the number of specialities, faculty staff, departments and laboratories BSTU is the only higher educational institution in such field not only in our country but also in Europe. BSTU is considered to be one of the best higher educational institutions in Russia according to the quality of education, teaching staff, level of scientific and research work and material supplies.

BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov is a highly developed modern educational, scientific, industrial and training complex. It includes laboratory buildings, training industrial bases, libraries containing scientific literature, hostels, residential blocks of flats for the staff, canteens, Cultural Student Centre, gyms and sport grounds. The best sport structure in the Black Soil Zone, the stadium, has been constructed, a swimming pool is being under construction.

The structure of the University includes Faculty of Economics and Management, Faculty of Building Materials Science, Faculty Mechanical Equipment, Faculty of Architecture and Construction Engineering, Faculty of Information Technologies and control Systems, Highway Construction Faculty, Machine Building Faculty, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Power Engineering and also Faculty of Refresher Courses, Scientific and Research Faculty of Global Changes and Steady Development, postgraduate school, doctoral studies, a number of technical schools, gymnasiums and technical lyceums. The structure of the University also includes 47 chairs and 3 departments.

In November 2004 we signed the agreement on cooperation between BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov and Moscow State University of Engineering Ecology and opened the branch of the International department of UNESCO "The technique of ecologically pure productions" on the basis of the BSTU.

The branches in Gubkin, in the North Caucasus, Dyatkov, Novorossiysk, the representation in Volsk carry out the successful activity. Belgorod Faculty of Engineering and Economics which has a range of branches in different regions of Russia makes part of the system of educational institutions of the university.

The university carries out the important work on the expansion of trends and specialities of engineering staff training. In such a way the university increases its competitive capacity on the educational market, takes into account the changes in economics and society. On the initiative of the regional authorities and the governor Y.S. Savchenko new specialities "Organization and traffic safety engineer", "Electric drive and automation of industrial installations and technological complexes engineer", "Emergency protection engineer", "Electricity supply engineer" were introduced in the curriculum. BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov is the only educational institution providing with specialists the enterprises of glass industry of Russia.

The leading cathedras of the University passed the international accreditation that had been carried on by British institution of civil engineers. According to the rating of the Federal Agency on Education the cathedra of «Building materials study, building products and structures» and the cathedra of «Highways and aerodromes» take the first place in Russia among the cathedras of the analogical profile.

According to the data of the project «Business Rating of Higher Education» the Belgorod Shukhov State University is included in the number of the best sixteen Universities of Russia (ALFA-league).

Considering the forth-coming conversion to two-stage training of specialists the university will carry out the training of Bachelors and Masters on 3 curriculums since 2005-2006 onwards.

The university graduates make up to 60% from the number of leading specialists and they head many large industrial enterprises. For the further development and perfection of educational system of the university the Centre of continuous professional training was created on the basis of the university. One of the important directions of its activity is the development of correspondence technologies of study.

Scientific laboratories are fitted with modern equipment; the computer base of the university is one of the best among the higher educational institutions of Russia, the local net with the Internet access is created. The number of computers in the university is equal to the number of computers in the leading higher educational institutions of European countries.

The training process and researches are carried out by more than 100 doctors and professors, more than 350 candidates of science and assistant professors, 19 members of the State and Public Academies, over 20 laureates of honored degrees, 5 distinguished inventors.

The training of engineering staff is carried out on 33 specialities and 22 directions which encompass almost all specialities necessary for building industry and industry of building materials. More than 15 thousand students study at the university, among them the foreign students of 12 countries of Europe, Asia and Africa.

BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov is the leading scientific centre. Over 75 % of all research work of the university is carried out by the orders of industry. Large scientific schools function on the basis of the university in the field of building materials, there are 6 dissertation councils, among them 3 doctoral. About 400 post-graduate students take a post-graduate course on 23 scientific specialities.