At present more than 35,000 students are training at the University, the teaching staff is almost 1500 people. There are 78 departments and 7 institutes in the university (Engineering Design Institute, Industrial and Technological Institute, Environmental and Chemical Engineering Institute, Chernomyrdin Humanitarian-economic Institute, Institute for Basic Competencies, Institute of Additional Education, International Institute, which provides training for foreign students). There are 11 comfortable dormitories. The University is provided with sufficiently modern technical basis for training students: there are 21 buildings with well-equipped lecture-halls, training and scientific laboratories, computer class-rooms, sports halls, a scientific-technical library which numbers nearly 1mln. books, dining halls and canteens.