STUDY PROGRAMMES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES

RUSSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION PROFILE

Kaliningrad, 19.09.2014

OVERVIEW

According to the monitoring data of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

86 Higher Education Institutions in Russia have 330 Study Programmes (of various types) in foreign languages.

300 of them are partly or to a full extent delivered in English.

In Priority Fields:

Medicine – 20Agriculture – 15 Engineering/IT – 116 Energy/Power – 17 Economics/Management – 31

PR

OG

RA

MM

ES

DIV

ER

SIF

ICATIO

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LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

60%

2%

1%

35%

3%

English

German

Spanish

Transition

Optional

English French GermanPolish Czech ChineseSpanish

English French SpanishGerman Chinese

63% of programmes are delivered in a foreign language; 35% - with a transition between Russian and a foreign language;2% - delivered in a range of foreign languages (students are to choose).

73%

8%

3%1%

1% 1%13%

44%

28%

5%

17%6%

TYPES OF PROGRAMMES

Bachelor Master Specialist PhD Internship/Residency

0

50

100

150

200

250

Types

Double diplomas

73%

21% 3% 3% 0,3

%

79%

21%

Most Active Partner Countries (No. of DD programmes is stated):

France – 31 Germany – 20 Finland – 19China – 17 UK – 12

Norway – 4

PARTNER COUNTRIES

18%

18%

15%12%

9%

6%

6%

5%

5%3% 3%

Country Cooperation Ratio

Germany France Finland China UK Italy

Netherlands USA Poland Austria Spain

Other countries: Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Sri-Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine

STUDENT PROFILE

25%

17%13%

8%

8%

6%

5%5%

4%

4% 4%

RussiaChinaTajikistanJordanIndiaNigeriaAzerbaijanUzbekistanNorway

Other countries: Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Colombia, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, UK, Ukraine , USA, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

BEST PRACTICESNORTHERN (ARCTIC) FEDERAL UNIVERSITY

For example:• MSc in Environment

Protection Engineering (English, Russian)

• MSc Circumpolar Health and Welfare (English, Russian)

• MSc Environmental Risks Management in the Arctic (English, Russian)

• MSc Information Technologies in Medicine and Social Sphere (English)

670 students / 354 graduates

10

3

31 1

Programmes in Foreign Languages

Humanities

Engineering/IT

Economics/Management

Medicine

Others

BEST PRACTICESPEOPLES' FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA

249 students / 280 graduates

8

392

1

9

Programmes in Foreign Languages

Humanities

Engineering/IT

Economics/Management

Medicine

Agriculture

Others

For example:• MSc Agroecological Land

Evolution (English)

• MSc Soil Fertility Management (English)

• MA Management and Design of Urban Green Infrastructure

(English)

• MSc Computational Civil Engineering (English)

BEST PRACTICES FAR EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY

For example:

• MSc in Russia in the Asia-Pacific: Politics, Economics, and Security (English)

• MSc in Offshore and Coastal Engineering (English)

• MSc in Food and Beverage Science (English)

• MSc in Archaeology of the Northern Pacific (English)

2

21

4Humanities

Engineering/IT

Economics/Management

Others

Programmes in Foreign Languages

124 students / 88 graduates

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