230700 Applied Computing
Qualification awarded: bachelor
Mode of attendance: full-time
Language of instruction: Russian
Standard study period: 4 years
Course start date: August 29 (academic year 2011/2012)
Program accreditation:
Salutation by Head of the Department
Dear Prospective Student!
You are invited to study on the Bachelor's Degree program 230700 Applied Computing.
This is one of the most promising and demanded majors. Furthermore, it is versatile, which is
demonstrated by the bachelor specialization: Applied Computing (in Economics). A specialist in
this field is well-informed with fundamental knowledge in information technology and
professional knowledge in economics.
Distinctive features: training on this program provides an opportunity to obtain profound
knowledge of various aspects of life cycle of information systems and their components in
micro- and macroeconomics. In the process of training students acquire knowledge, skills, and
experience needed to solve economic tasks effectively using modern information technologies
and information systems. Specialists in computing in economics possess the mastery of
information systems and the development methods of database management systems; they are
skilled in implementation and use of modern information systems in various branches of
economics.
Spheres of our graduates’ professional activities involve commercial and state-owned
organizations that operate information systems: bank management, large manufacturing
enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses, telecommunication service providers,
computation centers, etc. Our alumni enjoy a stable demand on the labor market together with
promising perspectives of further professional development and career advancement.
Bachelor's program graduates are offered opportunities to continue their education on a
master's program with majors in economics or computing and information technology.
Welcome!
Description of how the department runs the program
The Department of Control System Optimization (CSO) was founded in 1969 on the
basis of the Laboratory of Control located at the Faculty of Manufacture Management, created
by the initiative of the Rector of Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, prof. A.A. Vorobyov and the Head
of the Laboratory, prof. V.Z. Yampolskiy. Presently the Department is a part of the Institute of
Cybernetics.
Mission of the Institute is generation, proliferation, and application of knowledge in the
sphere of applied mathematics, computer engineering, information technologies, and control
systems in the process of conducting fundamental and applied research, also training and
retraining of engineering and scientific personnel.
The Institute's long-term strategic goal in line with its mission is the creation of conditions
and incentives for the development of innovation activity and training in compliance with the
world standards.
Unique feature: the Department's development and formation of academic and laboratory
base was inseparably linked with the development of computer technologies in Russia and
abroad. The Department of CSO is a recognized leader of TPU in the sphere of mathematical
support and software for computer equipment. In 2007–2009 the Department took part in
realization of TPU Innovative Education Program "Preemptive training of elite specialists and
world-class specialist teams in data telecommunications systems and technologies". As the result
of implementing the Innovative Education Program the Institute of Cybernetics became home to
the Centre for Advanced IT Specialists Training operating a supercomputer cluster with the
performance of more than 3 teraflops.
Teaching staff: presently the Department's teaching staff includes:
 6 professors
 19 associate professors
 2 senior lecturers
 9 assistant lecturers (8 of which undergo postgraduate training at the department)
Directions of research:
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informatization of higher education institution management;
mathematical modeling in economics;
multivariate observation visualization;
systems analysis and business process reengineering;
corporate knowledge management systems;
corporate network application development;
information system design;
modeling of oil and gas fields development;
development of virtual simulators for solving the tasks of modeling, design and
management of oil and gas fields operation process.
 distance learning and electronic courseware development.
Strategic partners in Russia and abroad:
1. Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Branch
of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2. TomskNIPIneft JSC
3. NK "Rosneft"- NTC LLC
4. Information Technologies Centre LLC
5. INCOM Group
6. EleSy Company
7. Elecard Devices CJSC
8. Polus SPC OJSC
9. Intant LLC
10. Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat
11. Elecs-Com LLC
12. Contek-Soft LLC
13. Technische Universität München
14. Technical University of Lisbon
15. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech)
The program is targeted at training of IT-specialists (in economics).
Being enrolled into the program you will get the knowledge in the fields of:
 computing, networks and telecommunications; information systems design; intellectual
information systems and economics.
 e-commerce; design of accounting information systems; banking information systems and
system security;
This knowledge allows graduators to adapt quickly to situations and changes happening in key
sectors of contemporary information economy.
Learning the major “Applied Computing” you will get the following skills in:
 development and design of databases, information systems in economics;
 applying information systems in different sectors of economy,
 using and modernizing information systems;
 carrying out research studies based on modeling social-economic processes and its
management;
 staff and developers management;
 management and entrepreneurship.
Career Prospective: jobs and types of enterprises for specialists
Jobs and enterprises that are applicable for graduators – all enterprises dealing with
economic information systems, banking management systems, highly developed industrial
companies, small and mid-sized business companies, organizations that offer provider services,
computer centers, and etc. Career prospective is defined by individual Masters’ skills and by job
requirements. As a rule, the initial job is a programmer or a system administration, then a head of
a group, project, department or company. Master level graduators enter a doctorate level where
they are working over PhD and try themselves as tutors and instructors in educational process.
Jobs Prospective
Graduators from “Applied Computing” in economics can work as a system administrator
or a programmer, information analyst, system analyst, information system analyst, information
management specialist, a specialist dealing with different kinds of forecasts and planning
economy development, a head of information departments in governmental structures and in
commercial companies, also in different ventures, holdings, corporations, insurance companies,
banking structures, audit and consulting companies, investment and commercial companies.
Russian and foreign big companies: Public corporation "TomskNeft" Eastern Oil Company,
«Center of Information Technologies», Group of companies «Income»,
Close corporation «EleSy» and others.
Study period within the Master program:
Cooperative management systems
Requirements for students
Admission time: according to the TPU legislations.
Background education (diploma, major): according to the TPU legislations.
Entrance exams: according to the TPU legislations.
Tuition fee: _____________ rub.
Contact information: admission committee of TPU