This year Ufimskiy state oil technical university (USOTU) turns 65 years old. This anniversary brings us delight and encourages us to achieve higher levels of developing education and science in all directions. During these 65 years USOTU has trained over 85 thousands high-qualified specialists. They took part in forming oil and gas industry of Russia, and today they improve industrial and economic potential of the country with their work.

Almost 23 thousand people, including almost 600 foreign students from 44 countries are being trained in the university nowadays. A unique team of tutors and employees has formed within the institution, and they have created world-known scientific schools, efficient scientific-technical inventions, modern educational technologies, rich traditions of upbringing youth. State policy in terms of education sets the problem of training a student as one of the main ones. The objective of modern upbringing system is to train a professionally and morally directed person who possesses a worldview potential, is ready for intellectual and social creativity. One of the main components in this system is a complete health and a good physical shape. The set objective is realized successfully due to a developed material-technical basis, social infrastructure, and staff potential of the institution. Many operations of our institutions have obtained a worldwide acknowledge. Thus, quality management system of USOTU has been certified in 2007 in an international German body of certification TUV Thuringen as it correspond to requirements of the international standard ISO 9001:2000, and it has been recertified in 2011according to ISO 9001 of 2008. USOTU has been one of the first institutions that certified its own system of ecologic management according to the standard ISO 14001:2004, and its system of preserving health and provision of labour safety has been certified according to the standard OHSAS18001:2007. European management fund, represented by the All-Russian organization of quality has acknowledged the activity of USOTU as a corresponding to the model of the European fund of quality management (EFQM) "Recognized perfection". In 2012 USOTU received the award of Asian Network of Quality (AQN) "For the best practice" in the field of quality management, production, managing human resources, and social responsibility at the X anniversary congress of AQN in Hong-Kong. USOTU has become the third Russian organization that has been honored with this award, and the only one in 2012.

Training process in the university is established by 1030 tutors, including 140 professors, doctor of science, and 550 associate professors, candidates of science. The average age of tutors and lecturers is 47 years. Over 100 people - specialists and managers of 25 industrial enterprises of fuel and power complex are regularly involved in the training process. The part of young tutors in the staff increases steadily. Their activation rating in stimulated by monthly bonuses that equal 100 to 400$.

USOTU offers 85 basic educational programmes, including 33 courses of training bachelors and masters, 327 programmes of training specialists, 29 programmes of postgraduate study, and 6 doctor courses. Also, 162 programmes of professional retraining and receiving additional qualification are available. The part of budged students equal 36% of the whole, 64% is formed by the students who study on commercial basics. Annual graduation has equaled about 3000 people during the recent years, including 100 masters and 40-50 foreign students. 350-400 students graduate with a distinction. The institution's acceptation equals 3000-4000 people.

Education process in the university is open, clear, and available to all citizens of Russia and other countries through the Internet network or the internal official site of USOTU. It has secured the institution's positions within the international educational environment significantly. Such characteristics of USOTU as growth dynamics, reliability in partnership, the quality and quantity of the provided services, its success on Russian market, image of the state university, developed infrastructure attract the young from all regions of Russia, including countries of near and far overseas. Contingent of the former exceeds 600 people nowadays, besides, 60% of foreign citizens study according to the contract, and 405 study according to a state program and budget line. These students are messengers from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, China, Vietnam, Nigeria, Angola, and other countries of Africa, South America, and Middle East. We do everything possible so that the formed professional competences of USOTU graduates increase their competitiveness and demand for them due to the received knowledge and skills in the field of modern program products and technologies.

Scientific and innovative, and also information-marketing activity is developed actively in our institution. The whole volume of financing scientific researches and services exceeded 1000000 $ in 2012.

On the whole, the university meets its 65^th birthday in its creative bloom. Ahead of us we have tens of programmes on improving the complex activity of our students, tutors, and employees of the university.