Education in Russia

Contents:

1. General information and key indicators relevant to education
2. The educational system
3. Education in action

Accurate as of March 2013; unless indicated otherwise, the websites are all in English. Acknowledgement: Inga Chubanova.

General information and key indicators relevant to education

In the Russian Federation, there are 180,000 educational institutions of all types and categories. About 35 million people or 23% of the total population in the country are annually involved in one type of education or another. More than 6 million people are employed in the sphere of education.

• Short information about education in Russia @ Edu-all; and
• Further information can be found @ the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

For information about educational programmes, including the list of educational institutions for the preparatory training of foreigns students at all levels of higher professional education in Russia, see Russia.edu.

The educational system  

The most famous public universities of the Russian Federation are as follows:

• the most famous university in Russia is Lomonosv State University (in English; in Russian). It is situated in Moscow;
• the second most famous university in Russia is MGIMO (in English; in Russian). It is also located in Moscow;
• the most famous University for the Foreign Students of the Russian Federation is RUDN;
• Moscow Aviation Institute;
• Technical University in Moscow (in Russian)
• Financial Academy (in English; in Russian), under the Government of the Russian Federation (located in Moscow);
• First Moscow State Medical University (in English; in Russian);
• the famous Vaganova Ballet Academy in St Petersburg (in Russian);
• Technical University of St Petersburg (in Russian);
• Pavlov Medical Academy of St Petersburg (in Russian);
• One of the most famous Technical Universities of the Russia Federation is located in Taganrog @ TTI (in Russian);
• Astrakhan State Medical Academy (in Russian);
• Saratov State Juridical Academy (in Russian);
• Kazan State Medical University (in Russian);
• Volgograd State Medical University;
• Pyatigorsk State Pharmaceutic Academy (in Russian); and
• Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University (in English; in Russian).

Finally you can find the Unesco’s Statistics on Education for the Russian Federation @ UNESCO

Education in action 

General Information on Unicef’s inclusive Education intiatives in Russia can be found @ UNICEF. The School Kovcheg provides programs for children with limited capacities, more information @ UNICEF.

You will find below more information on grants and scholarships:

• Foundation for support of Education and Science – Alferov’s Foundation: the Foundation was established on February 23, 2001 by Nobel Prize laureate Zh.I.Alferov in order to unite intellectual, financial and organizational efforts of both Russian and foreign legal entities and individuals in unanimous zeal for development of Russian science and education. The Foundation awards grants and scholarships to the most talented pupils, students and young scientists.

• Rosneft (in English; in Russian): the company provides comprehensive support to schools, professional colleges and universities in all key host regions.

• Bank VTB: the Bank is famous for its grants to the most talented students of the economic faculties of the Moscow State Universities and of St Petersburg.

Projects of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (in Russian): more information on support to the most famous Universities can be found @ Support and @ Education. Support to the students of high professional education is available @ Support.