Education

Educational system has been developing quite successfully in Petrozavodsk. Measures, taken to strengthen the system of education aim at meeting the requirements of citizens, public and state institutions in educational services. Education should be accessible, effective and of a high quality. Moreover the role of education becomes greater in social, economic and cultural development. Main directions of modernization are:

• reform of the educational institutions taking into account current poly-system educational districts;
• profile education;
• establishing tutorial boards at the educational institutions;
• providing economic mechanisms for successful schools' development.

Institutions of preschool education:

• Municipal - 63
• Departmental - 4

Secondary educational institutions:

• Primary comprehensive schools - 3,
• Secondary comprehensive schools - 20,
• Secondary comprehensive schools with profound subjects- 10,
• Lyceums - 5,
• Gymnasiums - 3,
• Educational center N 1
• Special boarding school N 47
• Students - more than 30 thousand
• Teachers - around 3 thousand

Institutions of primary vocational education:

• Vocational schools and lyceums - 10
• Students - 4560
• Teachers - 625

Institutions of secondary vocational education:

• Training schools and colleges - 16
• Students - 14187
• Teachers - 1908

Institutions of higher education:

• Petrozavodsk State University
• Karelian State Pedagogic University
• Petrozavodsk State Conservatory 
• Branches of Moscow and St.-Petersburg Institutions of higher education - 11