Over 4.1 million students were enrolled in Russian higher education institutions in 2022. The number of students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs in the country has decreased since 2010, when it exceeded seven million.
Leading Russian universities
In 2023, the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) ranked first in the list of top universities in Russia, according to the QS World University Rankings, which placed it 75th worldwide. The Bauman Moscow State Technical University ranked first by faculty-to-student ratio in the country. The third place in the domestic ranking was occupied by the Novosibirsk State University (NSU), an educational and scientific center of Siberia. The university ranked 260th in the world and received high scores for its faculty-student and international student ratios.
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