In 2018, twelve people complete their studies in this area of training at the Mari State University. Not only bachelor students who go onto further study (8) are among them, but also teachers of literature (3), culturologists (1); graduates of Russian universities and universities of CIS countries (Uzbekistan). The following issues of modern philology are at the center of students and mentors attention: the development of domestic and foreign culture and literature, the performance features of the Russian language, its place in society, the strengthening of its authority in the world space. The students have mastered modern approaches to the study of texts of different types, and learnt the methodology of analysis of the most complex phenomena of modern culture: postmodern texts, network literature, subcultural youth creativity, etc. The students also had the opportunity to test their knowledge in the process of passing the practices in the best educational institutions of the city and the region. They got acquainted with the main directions of the activity of the regional basic university of the Republic of Mari El, which the Mari State University is now, as well as with the experience of its leading specialists. The “Vestnik of the Mari State University” introduces readers to the concepts of undergraduate qualifications of magisters.