From the beginning of the next academic year, Chinese and Russian students will be able to "upgrade" their language skills by attending two-week linguistic courses in the country of the language they are studying. Elena Tikhonova, Head of the International Department of BSU, and the delegation of Shandong Women's University, headed by Vice Rector Li Ying, discussed this issue at a meeting at BSU today.

The 2025 admission campaign has started at Baikal State University today. The university implements continuing education. Admission has been announced for the specialties of secondary vocational education (college), higher education programs (bachelor's degree, specialty, master's degree), programs for the training of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel in graduate school.

BSU has entered the top 50 universities in the country in national rankings on the employment of graduates of the master's degree. The final calculation indicator was formed as the sum of the employment and salary indices of graduates.

The Department of Sectoral Economics and Natural Resource Management of BSU is preparing to present its project at the All–Russian competition among university teams and industry companies - the Youth Global Forecast of Energy Development. The competition is supported by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, and the largest companies in the country's fuel and energy complex.

Dear Professors, Colleagues, and students of Baikal State University! I congratulate you on the main state holiday – Russia Day!

The orders of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation approved decisions on the issuance of diplomas to applicants for academic degrees:

Baikal State University took 14th place in the ranking of Russian universities implementing educational programs in the field of State and Local Government.

On May 21, the election of the rector was held at Baikal University. Three candidates who have passed the certification in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation applied for this position.:

At the invitation of Wuhan University (China), Acting Rector of BSU participated in the World Conference on Digital Education. His report focused on the study of risks associated with digital learning and the potential use of artificial intelligence to enhance scientific research and the educational process in academic institutions.

The delegation from Vietnam arrived in Irkutsk to discuss promising areas of cooperation with BSU. The university in Halong has 10 thousand students and more than 300 staff and teachers. According to the rector of the Vietnamese university Nguyen Duc Tiep, they would like to have partnership relations with Baikal State University, as a leading economic university of the Siberian region, not only in the field of education, but also in scientific areas in the field of economics, tourism and information technology.

The delegation from Wuhan University, one of the largest universities in China, arrived in Irkutsk to meet with the management of Baikal State University. This is a return visit of colleagues. Not so long ago, a group of leading professors and specialists of BSU was in China and agreed on the implementation of joint educational programs.

One of the outcomes of the business trip of Baikal State University representatives to China was the signing of a memorandum of cooperation with Shandong Women's University (Jinan, China).