You will need

• - copies of a diploma of higher professional education with an attachment;
• - personal sheet of personnel records;
• - autobiography;
• - an extract from the minutes of the meeting of the academic council;
• - characteristic recommendation from the place of work;
• - a copy of the work book;
• - medical certificate;
• - Form 2.2, for persons who have passed the candidate exams;
• - a list of published scientific works (if any).

Instructions

You can enroll in graduate school at Moscow State University only if your age does not exceed 35 years. Also, you must have completed higher education and work experience in your specialty for at least 2 years. Moreover, this period is considered from the moment you graduate from higher education. If you dreamed of becoming a graduate student during your studies, you can try immediately after receiving your diploma. The collected recommendations of the academic councils of the faculties of universities will help you with this. But they will give you these recommendations only if during your studies you have shown your ability and desire to study science.

If you fit in all respects as candidates for graduate school, then collect the documents. For graduate school at Moscow State University, you will need an application for admission, a copy of a diploma, a personal sheet from the personnel department, a job description, a copy of a work record book or employment contracts, a medical certificate, a list of published scientific works (for those who apply immediately after graduation) and an extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Academic Council (also for those who enter immediately after completing basic training in their specialty). Take your passport and the original diploma with you to submit your documents. Submission of documents according to the internal decree of the university is made from July 1 to August 15.

After you submit your documents, you will need to pass the entrance exams. For postgraduate studies at Moscow State University, they are specially developed taking into account the volume of the existing programs of the university. The list of required exams includes: a test in a special discipline, an exam in philosophy, a foreign language. The dates for the exams are from 6 to 21 September. Please note that retaking exams is not allowed. Therefore, you have only one chance to become a graduate student during this period. You will be able to use the next attempt to enroll only after a year.

As for the reorganization issues, then you are entitled to additional leave from work during the exams. Its duration is 30 days. At the same time, you must keep your wages. If you are not a Muscovite, and you have nowhere to live, then you should know that during the entrance examinations for nonresident candidates for graduate students, Moscow State University provides hostels.

A thoughtful approach to this issue is especially relevant in light of the recent trends in the modernization of the certification system for highly qualified personnel and the tightening of requirements for the quality of dissertations. As the head of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation D. Livanov clarifies the situation, in 2013 the volume of admissions to postgraduate studies will decrease by 23.7%. This trend is being implemented by the law “On Education in the Russian Federation” that comes into force.

The postgraduate education process is changing. The institute of competition is abolished. The correspondence form of postgraduate studies is disappearing, as it has “lost its relevance,” according to the same D. Livanov. All that remains is full-time graduate school.

This is the tendency - but, as you know, there are no desperate situations. This article is intended to guide young professionals, what needs to be taken into account when applying, how to pass the candidate minimum and, in the future, successfully defend a dissertation and become a candidate of sciences.

Requirements for entering graduate school: you must be a citizen of the Russian Federation, not older than 35 years old, who have received a higher professional education. You can enroll in graduate school immediately after graduation, or after working for at least 2 years in your specialty. In the first case, a prerequisite for admission is the recommendation of the Academic Council of the university.

Admission to graduate school. So, you are a young specialist and you are faced with the question: how to enter graduate school? To take the first step towards a scientific career, the first step is to submit a handwritten application for admission to graduate school and attach to it:

2) an introductory essay in the specialty with a review by a scientific advisor (in the absence of published scientific papers);

3) a copy of a diploma of higher professional education (for persons who received education in other countries, a certificate of the equivalence of their educational documents, certified by a notary);

4) a copy of an extract from the transcript and examination sheet (diploma insert);

6) a certificate of passing the candidate exams for persons who have fully or partially passed the candidate exams;

7) a personal record sheet, certified by the OK of the organization in which the applicant works;

8) three photos 3x4 (1 photo 4x5);

9) substantiation of the thesis;

10) characteristics from the place of work (if you are applying after having worked for 2 years in your specialty);

11) autobiography;

12) medical certificate;

13) certificate of passing the candidate exams (if any);

14) an abstract on the topic of research that you intend to conduct in graduate school.

After reviewing the documents and evaluating the abstract and published scientific works (the latter are considered optional, but greatly increase the chances of admission), the selection committee will make a decision on admitting you to the entrance exams.

You will need to pass exams:

Philosophy and History of Science;

Foreign language;

In a special discipline.

Exam programs and tickets must first be found on the website of the selected university. Based on the results of the exams and the number of places, the selection committee will decide whether to enroll you in graduate school or refuse.

The question "How much does it cost to go to graduate school?"- very important. Preparing for admission, study it in advance for the university you have chosen. A number of universities practice admission to graduate school on a contractual basis. Information on the contractual form of training, requirements and cost should be sought on the websites of universities. The average cost of training is from 80,000 rubles per year. And in the light of the abolition of the correspondence form of education, the postgraduate student is no longer able to work during his postgraduate studies.

On the choice of a university, postgraduate study and research supervisor. Consider the factor of the university's prestige - from the point of view of the quality of knowledge, from the point of view of how this postgraduate study will start your scientific career. For example, it is more expensive to enroll in graduate school in Moscow than anywhere else. But, weigh everything.

Decide on the area of ​​scientific interest. It's not enough to decide: I want to go to graduate school in philosophy or jurisprudence. There are many directions within each field of knowledge. The choice of the university depends on which of them you want to study. There is also such a moment: in recent years, there has been a tendency to close dissertation councils at many universities. This means the likelihood of a situation when you are studying in graduate school, but you will not be able to defend yourself where you are studying. Because during the training, the dissertation council was closed / suspended, etc. We have to start the difficult procedure of transferring to another university. When entering graduate school, find out the prospects for defending a job at the university you are entering.

Your scientific advisor will have a huge impact on the start of your work and career. Much depends on whether your supervisor starts working on you immediately after the appointment, or whether you have to wait a long time until he finds time for you. Will he be able to devote enough time to consultations and do it when you need a consultation, and not once every six months. If not, fruitful work is out of the question. Make sure that this does not happen to you.

After the appointment of the supervisor, some time will be spent on the approval of the thesis topic and the approval of the individual work plan. In order for your dissertation topic to be approved, it must be substantiated - to prove its relevance for a given branch of knowledge, novelty. It is not necessary that a Ph.D. thesis from the first to the last letter be a new word in science. But it should be of some benefit. That is, to be of practical importance for the branch of knowledge in which you work. If you manage to substantiate the topic, it will be approved.

At the end of the first year of study, graduate students take two exams: in philosophy and in a foreign language. The third year of study ends with the passing of the candidate exam in the specialty. When performing work at the junction of two specialties, you will have to pass two exams in the specialty. Upon successful completion, the graduate student is given a certificate of "passing the candidate's minimum." This is a prerequisite for continuing education in graduate school and further work on a dissertation.

While studying in graduate school, you must meet the requirements for graduate students. In general terms, this means:

Attend classes according to the training program

Participate in scientific conferences

Carry out a pedagogical load (full-time postgraduate study)

Work on the text of the dissertation

Provide reports on the work done

Implement the results of scientific research into practice.

As you can see, there are two difficult tasks - to enter graduate school and successfully complete graduate school. There are many subtasks within these tasks. A separate question is to choose a university. Another issue is organizational: the collection of all documents, signatures and other organizational issues. The passing of entrance exams and the candidate minimum in the learning process stand apart. Since 2013, the question has arisen: what about my job if I don’t want to quit, but there is no longer a correspondence course? Etc.

We can help with the solution of these problems - part of them or all together.

♦ Choosing a university. It's not as easy as it sounds - there are many things to consider. It is not enough to enter the postgraduate study of the corresponding university, where at the time of admission there is a dissertation council. During the postgraduate studies, a lot can change - the leadership of the university or department, for example. All applicants have different circumstances. Sometimes it makes sense to enroll in graduate school at a university without a valid dissertation council in order to transfer to another university for defense. We will discuss the situation with you and choose the best course of action.

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If in connection with the dissolution of the dissertation council of your university or other circumstances translation is required for protection from the university where you were trained to the graduate school of our university - there is such an opportunity. Thanks to our contacts, we will put you on defense in the shortest possible time - 3-4 months.

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The price of services is discussed individually, depending on your circumstances, requirements and wishes. Our help will allow you to achieve your goal as quickly and efficiently as possible, avoiding many pitfalls and associated time and financial costs. Cooperation with us will open up prospects and opportunities for you that you did not even know about.

Postgraduate studies are evidence of the readiness of a university graduate to devote his life to science, readiness for new discoveries and the introduction of new technologies into life. The decision to enroll in graduate school at such a renowned university as Moscow State University is not only an application for the highest start of a young scientist, but also a sign that he intends to study using the best materials and benefit from the experience of the world's most recognized scientists.

The package of documents that must be submitted to the admissions office of postgraduate studies at Moscow State University is similar to similar packages required at other universities. In addition, a copy of the work book and a characteristic from the personnel department are required, because such serious tests as when entering and studying at Moscow State University are almost impossible to withstand without having practical skills in the chosen specialty.

Instructions

Admission is admitted to persons not older than thirty-five years old who have a higher education diploma and have worked for more than two years. Work experience begins to count from the time of passing the final tests. If you worked in your student years, you will be allowed to make an attempt to enter graduate school earlier. To do this, you need to provide recommendations from the academic council of the university where you studied. Recommended if you have proven yourself as a talented young scientist capable of learning.

You can submit documents to graduate school at Moscow State University within a month and a half - from early July to mid-August. Check their list in advance.

Tests for applicants are held in September, applicants are given only one attempt. You will be able to try again only next year. The list of entrance examinations at Moscow State University is the same as at universities throughout the country.

Applicants to graduate school at Moscow State University are provided with a number of social guarantees at the time of admission. The main ones are:

Granting leave to working applicants. The vacation is provided for a month and is paid:

Provision of a place in a hostel for candidates who came from other localities.

note

Enrollment in graduate school is on October 1. Full-time education takes three years, part-time - a year more.

Teachers of the Department of Foreign Languages ​​take entrance examinations in English for graduate school and examinations for a candidate's minimum.

The structure of the exam of the candidate minimum

1. Reading, translation with a dictionary from a foreign language into Russian of the first part of the original scientific text in the specialty and retelling of the second part of the text in a foreign language. (Volume 2500-3000 p.z. Execution time - 45-60 minutes)

2. Fluent reading of the original scientific text in the specialty and transmission of the extracted information in a foreign language. (Volume 1500 p.z. Execution time -3-4 min.)

3. Conversation in a foreign language about scientific work.

Admission to the Candidate Minimum Exam

In order to be admitted to the exam, you must:

1. Make a written translation from a foreign language into Russian 10 pages of the original scientific text in the specialty. (Text from five years ago).

2. Write an annotation in a foreign language to the original scientific literature read. (The volume of literature is 100 pages. The volume of the annotation is 3-4 pages)

3. Provide a terminological dictionary in the specialty. (At least 50 lexical units.)

4. Write a short annotation to your scientific article in a foreign language. (Abstract + key words.)

5. Prepare a presentation of your scientific work.