SPbU Admissions 2017: International Students
St Petersburg University has published the ranked lists of international students who have applied for under-graduate, graduate, specialist and post-graduate courses on the places funded by the Government at SPbU.
In 2017, the University has 1,102 applications; an increase of 21 % from the previous year. 315 students were admitted to the places funded by the Government (in 2016, 305 students), among them 116 students to under-graduate and specialist study, 159 students to graduate study, and 40 students to post-graduate study. Full details can be found here.
The under-graduate and specialist courses that get the most applicants are Management, Linguistics, Arts, and General Medicine. The most popular graduate course is International Relations, while the post-graduate courses that attract most applicants are Political Sciences and Region Studies, Linguistics and Literature Studies.
For entry in 2017, most applicants came from Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Columbia, USA, Canada, Japan, Italy, Spain, Algeria, Nigeria, Mauritius, Ghana, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Senegal, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Finland to name but a few.
Deadline for those who apply for study on a fee-paying (contractual) basis is August 10 (if no entrance visa required).
St Petersburg offers more than 100 educational programmes taught in foreign languages. In 2017, SPbU has opened new programmes that international students may be interested in. the under-graduate programme in Russian Studies has lectures in English and learn Russian language, which will be the main language of study by the fourth year. Graduate applicants may be interested in Russian Culture taught only in English. Upon graduation you can work as experts on Russian culture in the foundations, analytical companies, museums, and government in Russia and abroad. Another graduate programme in Russian Tourist Destinations focuses on history and geography of Russia to encourage international tourism in Russia.
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For entry 2016, the University has 910 applications from 87 countries for under-graduate and specialist study on the places funded by the Government: from Ukraine, Belorussia, Georgia, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Burundi, Egypt, Zambia, Congo, Croatia, Lebanon, Norway, UAE, Senegal, and Rumania.