The main campus has 17 educational laboratory and administrative buildings with the total space of 120,000 m2. There are 20 departments, 70 chairs. Over 10,000 full-time students. About 21,000 students including part-time. Over 900 faculty members, including: 35 academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other academies; 80 Doctors of Science, professors; 380 candidates of science, senior lecturers.
On average KemSU post-graduate students defend 30-40 Candidate's and 6-8 Doctor's theses in a given year.
Yury Zakharov, 1975–2005 PhD Chem., Professor, Corresponding Member of RAS, Academician of IAS HS and RANS, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation