Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia, Government of Ugra, Government of the Perm Territory and LUKOIL have consolidated their intentions to establish an educational center in the city of Kogalym to train engineers for the country's oil and gas industry in compliance with advanced international educational standards.

Perm Tech entered the group of Russian universities that took places from 17- to 48. This year’s ranking analysed more than 80 million citations across over 13 million research publications and included survey responses from 22,000 scholars globally.