BelSU enters the new academic year

Representatives of BelSU, members of the academic council, teachers, graduate students completed the traditional procession on the University Square, where event was held. The first-year students of the university also took part in it. The guests of the festival were representatives of the regional government, employers and social partners of the university. They congratulated freshmen, their parents, graduates and teachers on the Knowledge Day.

Congratulating students, teachers, staff and guests of the holiday with the beginning of the new academic year, the rector of the Belgorod State University Oleg Polukhin emphasized that education is the main vector of progress, and since progress cannot be stopped, it is impossible to weaken the desire to learn.

“Every year, the number of our enrollees is growing. For the second year in a row, more than 60 percent of graduates of Belgorod region schools became our students. We are training representatives of all 85 constituent entities of Russia, as well as more than three thousand foreign citizens from 91 states. All this testifies to the growing academic reputation of Belgorod State University and its popularity among young people, based on the high quality of education and scientific research”.

Addressing the freshmen, the rector assured that at Belgorod State University they will find application for their abilities and reveal their creative and scientific potential under the guidance of the best scientists.

“We are one large, multinational university family. That is why we manage to achieve our goals and boldly look to the future, following the motto of our university: to preserve the best, to multiply what has been achieved, to do it together! Happy Knowledge Day, dear friends!”

Freshmen gave a traditional oath that formalized their symbolic entry into the university family. The rector handed them the key to knowledge, and senior students gave them a symbolic student card.