The military training center (Russian: военный учебный центр) is a division within civilian university or other higher education institution, intended for training commissioned officers from among students, currently widespread in Russian Federation. The abbreviation of military training center is MTC (Russian: ВУЦ).
Military training centers appeared with enactment of the Federal Law of 3 August 2018 No.309-FZ[1] which entered into force on 1 January 2019. Previously existing organizational structures conducted military training of students of civilian universities were abolished.[2] On 13 March 2019, the list of 93 civilian institutions of higher education with military training centers was approved by Government of Russia.[3][4] The Regulations on the military training centers was approved on 3 July 2019.[5]
Military training centers have 2 main functions:[6]
Furthermore, some military training centers pursue programmes of training reserve non-commissioned officers and reserve enlisted personnel, which are reduced curriculums compared to officer's programme. These programmes graduates are commissioned as a sergeant/1st class petty officer (non-commissioned officer programme) or private/seaman (enlisted personnel programme), are exempted from military draft, are not to obliged to serve, and are enrolled in mobilization human resource.
Typical military training center has following structure:[5]
There are the following civilian institutions of higher education having military training centers in Russia:[3]