North Ossetian State University is a leading Russian institution of higher education and a center of higher education, scientific research and culture in the North Ossetia region, founded in 1920, its predecessor was the National Educational Institute of Jersk, which offers bachelor's, specialist, master's, associate doctoral and doctoral programs in such specialties as biology, bakery, dessert production. The main specialties are biology, bakery and dessert production, winemaking and fermentation, geography, geoecology, land planning, social and cultural services and tourism, journalism, etc.