The mission of the Volga Region State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism is to provide quality physical culture, sports and tourism education according to modern international standards.

Specialists are trained using innovative methods. Integration of quality professional education, sports training, scientific and applied research provides an opportunity to develop and implement advanced scientific technologies and products on the basis of the university.

An element of the quality of training at the university is its infrastructure: equipped classrooms and laboratories, high-tech sports facilities, modern residential cluster of the Universiade Village. University students intern abroad, become members of the national teams of Tatarstan and Russia, and take direct part in major international sporting events.

The university follows the best Russian sporting traditions and, by forming new meanings of modern industry education, serves as a springboard for new generations of athletes, as well as educates specialists capable of creating a health-saving environment and healthy lifestyle priorities around them.