Today, VolgSMU is one of the largest medical and pharmaceutical universities in Russia, in terms of the number of students at various levels. Currently, more than 1,000 educational programs of all levels are being implemented at VolgSMU. VolgSMU has wide international recognition – more than 5,000 of its graduates work in 127 countries around the world. Having gone from a provincial medical institute to a world-renowned university, having strengthened the foundation with rich, including military, experience and promising innovations, carefully preserving historical roots and established glorious traditions, passing them from generation to generation, day after day the university trains highly qualified specialists of the 21st century.