P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University is a leading higher educational institution of the Upper-Volga region with 7800 students. It is a classical multi-discipline educational institution training students in 70 majors.In its structure the university has ten departments: the Law Department, the Mathematics Department, the Physics Department, the Economics Department, the History Department, the Department of Information and Computer Science, the Department of Social and Political Sciences, the Psychology Department, the Biology and Ecology Department, and the Department of Philology and Communication. Also the University College offers a wide range of academic programmes in secondary professional education.