The emergence of a new education system has confused many. It is not easy to understand the levels of higher education (bachelor's, master's, specialty), it is even more difficult to understand the peculiarity of a university by its name and status. For example, hardly anyone can confidently say how a university differs from an academy and why institutes are disappearing.
Academy
The concept of "academy" originated in the days of the philosopher Plato. According to the legend, the ancient thinker loved to walk in the garden called the Akadem. Later, having established the school, Plato gave it the name "Academy". She was something of a hobby group. Its purpose - to teach sciences that are in one narrow specialization - has survived to this day. The direction of the field in which knowledge is taught is reflected in the name of the institution, for example: "Ural Art Academy".
The university
The university ranks slightly higher in rank. Its main difference from the academy is that this university prepares specialists of a wide profile, uniting several faculties in different specialties. Within the walls of one educational institution, you can meet both future physicists or test pilots, and teachers of singing or mathematics. This does not mean that the level of knowledge presented by the university is an order of magnitude higher than the program of the academies.
Academies, like universities, have the right to research activities, as well as to methodological developments and their implementation in their profile.
Change
Life flows and changes, at the same time it makes its own adjustments. There are times when a person enters the academy and graduates from the university. Renaming and changing statuses is not such a rare phenomenon, associated with the introduced obligation of universities to undergo periodic re-certification and confirm the number of specialties (departments) for which recruitment and training is taking place, as well as the status of the teaching staff, which claims the right to train specialists with higher education.
Every year, a couple of universities from the university pass into the category of academies, having failed to recruit the required number of students or to confirm the fulfillment of the educational standard in the declared specialties.
Does the rank of the university that released the specialist affect the preferences of employers? The overwhelming majority of the answer is unequivocal - it does not affect in any way. Therefore, choosing your path after school, you should not dwell on the status of the institution, in fact, the program of the academy will not differ in any way from the program of the university. It is much more important to correctly determine the direction of specialization.
