The Faculty of Foreign Languages has extensive international ties, some of these being partnerships of long standing. At the moment we have academic agreements with Institut fuer Germanistik der Universitaet Wien; Osterreich - Kooperation; Universitaet Salzburg; Landesspracheninstitut NRW; Universitaet Wuerzburg; Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori, Universita di Bologna; Sapienza Universita di Roma; Universita degli Studi di Firenze;, the University of Granada, Spain; Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Rotterdam School of Management , the Netherlands; Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea; Univerza na Primorskem, Slovenia; the State University of New York, USA; Universite Paris X Nanterre; Universite Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3; University of West Bohemia; University of Palacky in Olomouc,; Hokkaido University.
About 35 faculty professors go to lecture abroad every year, and we have student exchange programs with the USA, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, the Czech Republic, Italy, Poland.
The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies has double degree programs with London Metropolitan University and the University of Coventry, our students receiving both Specialist’s Degree from Moscow State University and BA or MA from a British University.
At the moment we have a joint project with The State University of New York (SUNY), our students being able to earn degrees from both universities enjoying all the rights and privileges of both MSU and SUNY.
Since 2007 we have had a double degree program with Rotterdam School of Management, the Netherlands.
Our double-degree program alumni work for Russian and foreign organizations and companies, for travel agencies, the mass media and in advertising. Some of them go to postgraduate school either in MSU or abroad, working towards Master’s or Doctor’s degrees in their specialist areas.