Our Academy - Penza State Technological Academy (PSTA) - one of the leading technical universities in the region, high school with a 50-year history in the educational process which harmoniously combines tradition and innovation.

History of Penza State Technological Academy - is the story of the development of technical education in the region, aimed at the successful development of human capacity in the field of modern economic conditions. At the same time nurturing a new generation of technical personnel, we strive to take into account the requirements of regional employers.

The integration of education, science and business became the basis of educational policy PSTA today. Modern specialist - graduate of technical high school - should have thought of the scientist, properties manager and knowledge engineer. 50-year experience of the Penza State Technological Academy convincingly proved that the combination of theoretical and practical training of industrial helps students acquire the knowledge, focused on the real economy, and so valued by employers work experience. Moreover, the active involvement of students in research and creative work develops the necessary qualities for independent business or innovation activities. Therefore, the Academy pays special attention to student development and their introduction into production.

Students and graduates of the academy - are people of their words and deeds, our pride. Students know for what and why they are studying and strive to realize themselves in the profession. As a result, most graduates of the Academy are employed before graduation, and stress: working on specialty! The secret of this, not only in the effective organization of the educational process, but also in the range of specializations that offers Academy applicants: technology of mechanical engineering, biotechnology, applied computer science, automation of technological processes and manufactures, engineering protection of environment, information service and many others, which are demanded on today's job market.

This once again proves that Academy - Educational Institution, focused on the real economy, both the region and country. To educational activities, we involve the leading specialists of the Penza enterprises, heads of firms and organizations. Partnerships allow us to predict the labor market and with this in mind, build a range of educational programs. Today, the Academy trains specialists for the sphere of information technologies, food processing, chemical, engineering, energy, and other industries. For qualified employees at all levels of production the Academy has united primary (school, lyceum), average (chemical technological college), and higher education. At the same time students, if they want, have opportunity to get work and engineering profession. And a modern material and technical base educational trajectories, developed in PSTA, can do it qualitatively and mobile. Educational-industrial complexes, the laboratories of academy , equipped with the direct par! ticipation of enterprises - customers of experts and training simulators, designed to meet the requirements of modern production, create good conditions for training and retraining of technical staff.

Such favorable educational environment based on cooperative activity of students, scientists and leading experts of the enterprises, makes the learning process in the Penza State Technological Academy into large-scale preparation of experts of the innovative orientation, capable to investigate technological problems, to generate ideas, to develop technical decisions, to design competitive production. And it that is necessary for region today.

We are directed in the future and we do not stop on reached, improving quality of preparation of experts, actively we introduce innovative technologies, we adopt the international experience. The Academy co-operates with international companies: Aptech Worldwide and Softline, the International Institute of Management LINK, regional centers are located at the base of PSTA. The combination of basic training in the PSTA and training under the international programs - conclusive advantage in education of IT-specialist for branch in the way of quickly developing information technology, that that will provide modern youth with the guaranteed workplaces.

In the education of professionals, assured in their professional tomorrow, meeting all requirements of a modern society: knowing, capable to the self-improvement, loving the country and ready to work for the society blessing - the main task of all educational activity of the collective of the Academy. At the academy we unite all the best that is in domestic education, and we are ready to use the positive experience of foreign colleagues.  The secret of successful preparation of demanded specialists - graduates of the PSTA - those, who has already worked at the enterprises of the country and will come to work tomorrow.