UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporations is going to cover tuition fees of forty-four students (the company’s prospective employees) who got into colleges in Yekaterinburg, Saint Petersburg, Nizhniy Tagil, Novouralsk, and Lesnoy that are part of Uralvagonzavod Corporate University, the company press service reports.

‘These work-incentive programs are a school-leaver’s chance to get into a top-ranking college and our company’s chance to get a highly skilled employee for the job it needs. Our current employees’ children have a priority in the distribution of the funding for the program. Once they have got their degrees, they are promised a job with the enterprise,’ says Uralvagonzavod Personnel Training Center’s Director Sergey Vassilyev.

Twenty-three applicants are going to study at B.N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University: nine of them will specialize in machine-building, seven in metallurgy, one in information systems, one in technology, and one in technological processes and production automation. Also, two students will major in power engineering and electronic equipment and two more in heat engineering and heating equipment. Twelve students are heading for Nizhniy Tagil Technological Institute to study design engineering in the machine-building sector.

Apart from this, three applicants entered Baltic State Technical University to concentrate on mechatronics, robotics, and radio electronics. Four more people got into MIFI Technological Institute in Novouralsk to study electronics and nanoelectronics and two more – to train to be a designer/technician/computer programmer.