Editing Samara (section)

==Education==
[[File:Festival of Science in Samara.jpg|thumb|Festival of Science in Samara]]
Samara has 188 schools of general education, lyceums, high schools, and the college of continuous education (from primary up to higher education). Samara is a major educational and scientific centre of the Volga area. Twelve public and 13 commercial institutions of higher education as well as 26 colleges.

Samara is the home of [[Samara State Aerospace University]] (SSAU), one of Russia's leading engineering and technical institutions. SSAU faculty and graduates have played a significant role in Russia's space program since its conception. Samara is also the hometown of [[Samara State University]], a very respected higher-education institution in European Russia with competitive programs in Law, Sociology, and English Philology. Scientific research is also carried out in Samara. The Samara Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences incorporates the Samara branch of the Physical Institute, Theoretical Engineering Institute and Image Processing Systems Institute. Major research institutions operate in the city.<ref name="city.old.webzavod.ru"/>
[[Samara State Technical University]] (SamGTU) was founded in 1914. There are 11 faculties with over 20,000 students (2009) and 1,800 faculty members. On campus, there are four dormitory and ten study buildings. Samara State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities was founded in 1911 as Samara Teachers Institute.  Currently, the academy offers 42 various specialisations in its 12 faculties.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pgsga.ru/academy |title=Об академии |access-date=August 31, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111114235526/http://www.pgsga.ru/academy/ |archive-date=November 14, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>