Flagship university
Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov (BSTU) is one of 33 flagship universities in Russia. The universities that entered the national "Flagship University" program have a mission: to teach and train specialists for the regions in which they are located.
Owing to developing construction industry, Belgorod region requires not only introduction of new subjects, fields of studies, a large-scale application of project work and a technological upgrade of the material resources of teaching, but also the provision of multiprofessional training. It is necessary to train students with intersection knowledge, for example, "engineering + economy + information technology". The BSTU graduates are both engineers with fundamental knowledge and leaders with economic and legal qualification, knowing foreign language.
BSTU , being a flagship university, has to change the direction of higher education development in engineering and technical disciplines in Belgorod region and become multifield university of an entrepreneurial type.