The Institute of Law provides training and enrolment of students on educational programmes of higher education: bachelor's, specialist and master's degrees, as well as training of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel on postgraduate programmes.

Within the framework of the implemented programmes, graduates of the Institute of Law receive additional qualifications. In addition, there is a unique opportunity to receive two diplomas instead of one, which guarantees greater opportunities for further employment. First-year students entering on a contractual basis on a full-time basis can receive additional education free of charge in the programme ‘Economic Security’ or ‘State and Municipal Management’.

Currently, the Institute of Law has 4 departments and 2 laboratories, as well as a legal clinic, where students have the opportunity to get their first practical skills and provide pro bono assistance to the population.

The first thing that is instilled and cultivated at the Institute of Law of Chelyabinsk State University is a high level of knowledge and skills, value attitude, which is expressed in the ability to solve professionally-oriented tasks of various levels of complexity. To date, they make up a significant part of the staff of the Prosecutor's Office of the Chelyabinsk Region, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Chelyabinsk Region, the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Chelyabinsk Region, the Main Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Chelyabinsk Region. Many graduates work in the civil law sphere, and members of the judiciary are a special pride of the institute.