Federal State-Funded Educational Institution of Higher Vocational Education “Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University”(NovSU), established under the resolution of the government of the Russian Federation from June 30, 1993 No. 624, is the largest higher education institution in the Novgorod region, which carries out its activity in accordance with existing legislation and normative acts of Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation. In the system of higher professional education of NovSU now there are eight schools: Humanities, Medical Education, Continuous Pedagogical Education, Polytechnic, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Electronic and Information Systems, Economy and Administration, and Further Education. Judging from the names, all of them have their distinct feature. The given structure of schools did not appear not at once, but as a natural response to the needs of consumers of educational services of NovSU. It is quite possible that in due course the profile of some of schools will change and their number will grow. The university offers 42 bachelor’s, 17 master’s and four specialist’s programs. Thus the distinctive feature of educational process is the use of active methods of teaching which presupposes the students’ involvement in the process of neogenesis by computer games, public presentations of term papers and abstracts, and active dialogue between a teacher and a student.