National Center for Professional Accreditation (Yoshkar-Ola, Russia) and Evalag (Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) are collaborating on the project.
KFU's current Competitiveness Program states that 40 major professional programs must be accredited by 2020.
Those that have already been accredited are Organizational Management, Social and Cultural Service and Tourism, Economic Theory, Ecology, Philology, Mathematics, Law, Physics of Condensed Matter, Physics of Magnetism, Chemoinformatics and Molecular Modelling, Neurobiology, General and Strategic Management, Regional Economy and Territorial Management, and MBA programs.
The accreditation was performed by the National Center for Professional Accreditation, an agency that follows international protocols and Russian law in its practice. Evalag employees serve as independent international consultants. Evalag is a member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), an organization that aims to promote quality standards in education across the world.
During the final stage of the process, on March 14th – 15th, 2017, a commission including international experts made an evaluation visit, studied the relevant paperwork, met with students and academics, and toured the facilities.
Vice-Rector Linar Latypov presented KFU's development strategy to the commission. He touched on educational policies and internationalization strategies. Other representatives of the management were also present, including directors of institutes which submitted their programs for the accreditation.
The expert commission will soon make its decisions on the six programs in question - those are Mathematics, Complex Data Analysis in Petroleum and Gas Geology, Systemic Ecology and Modelling, International Protection of Human Rights, Russian as a Foreign Language, and History of Russia (Sociocultural and Ethnological Research).