Samara Academy of Humanities

Samara Academy for the Humanities (SAH) was founded in May 1992 by the Samara Region Administration, the City Administration, the Samara Diocesan Administration of Russian Orthodox Church, the Samara Region Law Society and other founders. SAH is a member of the Samara Region University Association and the Russian Private Institutions Association.

Samara Academy for the Humanities holds the state license to provide higher education and specialist training in 5 departments: Philosophy, Economics, Psychology, Law and Journalism. The Federal Education and Science Supervision Agency issued the license on March 21, 2013. The Academy also holds the State Accreditation Certificate. The College of Samara Academy for the Humanities provides secondary professional training.

 Master’s degree programs in philosophy, law and economics were launched in 2008 and got accredited by the state in 2010.

The Academy has post-graduate courses in 14 areas of study. The enrolment in the Academy including its branches is 2,500 students. It is staffed with 184 lecturers, among them - 25 doctors of science and 89 candidates of science.

Samara Academy for the Humanities was founded in 1992 at the initiative of a team of Samara State University scholars to create an institution of higher learning that could implement a new concept of university training in humanities.

The idea of SAH foundation was supported by the governor of the Samara Region Konstantin Titov and the mayor of Samara Oleg Sysuev who is currently the Honorary Professors of the Academy.

In its first academic year (1992-1993) the enrolment in the Academy was 112 students who were trained in the Law Faculty and the Faculty of Philosophy and Linguistics which had three departments at the time: Philosophy, Literature Studies and Slavonic Cultures.

In 1994 SAH set up the Faculty of Economics and opened its branch in Togliatti.