SSAU has successfully defended the university's development program from 2025 to 2030 within the framework of the Priority 2030 program.

Priority 2030 unites 142 leading universities from 56 regions of the Russian Federation. The purpose of the program is to concentrate resources to ensure the contribution of Russian universities to achieving national goals, increase their scientific and educational potential and ensure participation in the socio-economic development of the regions. Since 2025, the program has been implemented as part of the Youth and Children National project.

A meeting of the Council for Support of University Development Programs participating in the Priority 2030 program, chaired by Valery Falkov, Head of the Ministry of Education and Science, was held at the Boiling Point of NUST MISIS. The Ministry of Education and Science determined the following selection criteria in 2025: the university's model, its strategic goals and plans to achieve them, the team and leadership approaches, as well as their compliance with the country's technological development vector and the new personnel training system. Each university has submitted up to three technological projects to the council, which are planned to be implemented by 2030. The main topics include biomedical technologies, microelectronics and photonics, new materials with specified properties, transport for various fields of application, new and traditional energy. 

During the meeting, SSAU scientists spoke about the results already achieved over the years of the program's implementation and outlined new areas of development. The University has recruited 26 new higher education programs, 10 of which are being implemented as networks with leading scientific and educational organizations and agricultural holdings. The infrastructure of scientific research and the promotion of its results has been developed: the Institute of Agrarian Genetics and Breeding, the Faculty of Digital Technologies, the Regional Information Center TASS, etc. have been established.

This year, it is planned to look at existing strategic projects through a technological prism and continue work in the field of breeding resource management, industrial technologies for horticulture and fruit growing, and the creation of technology for the industrial production of virus-free planting material for fruit and berry crops. The strategic goal of the technological leadership of SSAU is to achieve a leading position in Russia in the implementation of strategic technological projects of the university:

● «Development of a complex of innovative solutions for the cultivation of industrial varieties of fruit and berry crops for the scientific and technological development of horticulture in the South of Russia» — the project is being implemented in response to the promising tasks of laying new orchards and berry fields necessary to meet the food safety indicator;

● «Innovative technologies for the management and sustainable development of tribal resources» is aimed at contributing to the achievement of the planned values of the Russian Federation's indicator of self—sufficiency in domestic breeding products.

Other areas of the university's development program include the formation of a flexible educational model that includes a system of early career guidance for schoolchildren, creating conditions for students to focus on the technological priorities of the agro—industrial complex and related industries, providing targeted training for the creation and operation of new high-tech technologies and products in the agro-industrial complex and related industries, obtaining several qualifications, as well as routing graduates in accordance with the qualifications obtained.

To achieve these goals, SSAU will develop interdisciplinary collaborations with leading Russian and foreign scientific and educational centers and high-tech enterprises.

The development program is implemented in accordance with the strategic vectors defined by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation for the activities of agricultural universities, as well as in accordance with the priority areas for the agro-industrial complex of the Stavropol Territory.