The academic structure of Penza State University comprises the following units:

•    Institutes forming the largest structural units that carry out educational and research activity and embracing faculties;

•    Faculties functioning as the educational, research and administrative structural units, which provide training for students and graduate students in one or more related study fields, and including departments;

•    Departments serving as the major structural units of the faculty and delivering training within a specific study field.
 

	Polytechnic Institute Faculty of Computer Engineering Faculty of Industrial Technologies, Power Engineering and Transport Faculty of Information Technologies and Electronics
	Institute of Teacher Education Faculty of History, Languages and Literature Faculty of Pedagogy, Psychology and Social Sciences Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Natural Sciences
	Medical Institute Faculty of General Medicine Faculty of Dentistry
	Institute of Sport and Physical Training
	Institute of Economics and Administration
	Institute of Law