STATEMENT OF ADMISSION FOR STUDY FOR FOREIGN CITIZEN IN 2020/2021 STUDY YEAR

at educational organizations of higher education by budgetary appropriations of federal budget within the quota determined by the Russian Government decree N 891 of 8th October, 2013 "About determination of the quota for education of foreign citizens and persons without citizenship in the Russian Federation"

The selection of the foreign citizens for study in the Russian Federation by budgetary appropriations of federal budget is realized in two steps.

STEP I. The Rossotrudnichestvo performs the selection of candidates for study in countries involving representatives of foreign state authorities in field of education, Russian Embassies and Russian representative offices.

A foreign candidate has a right of choice up to six higher educational organizations for future study (not more than two in each federal region). In case of refusal of admission from all six educational organizations by different reasons, a right of final choice is given to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the Rossotrudnichestvo. After this step, set of required documents (both in hard and soft copies) for the candidates, that are made under the control of responsible representatives of Rossotrudnichestvo or abroad representative of Rossotrudnichestvo, is sent with covering letter and list of candidates to the central office of Rossotrudnichestvo.

Then Rossotrudnichestvo handle these documents to the Russian Ministry of Education for the Step II.

STEP II. The selection of the foreign citizens recommended by the country authorities for study in Russia is held by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation involving Russian educational organizations within the Informational-Analytic System (https://education-in-russia.com/) on the ground of provided documents of foreign citizens short listed in the Step I. The results will be provided by the Russian Ministry of Education to the Rossotrudnichestvo, that then will send them to the Russian and foreign embassies and foreign representative offices.

Foreign students, who do not have a sufficient knowledge of Russian, have a right to enter the foundation course covered by the grants provided by the federal budget.

This is oneyear coursethat does not count for the training time of the higher education program.

List of required documents*

1. Application form with color photograph

2. Copies of educational certificates with transcripts

3. Copy of medical certificate of overall health condition including HIV + AIDS certificates

4. Passport copy with expire date not earlier than 18 month since the arrival date

5. Copy of birth certificate

6. Copies of competition certificates

7. Copy of a document confirming appropriate level of education for admission to an educational program/specialty in the group “Art and culture” (if needed)

* All documents are to be translated to Russian language and officially notarized

There are 30 quotas for foreign students. The list of available programmes can be found below.