MIL-OSI Russia: Dmitry Chernyshenko: Representatives of 185 countries took part in the Olympiad of the Global Universities Association for admission to Russian universities

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The announcement of the winners for the PhD and postdoc tracks was a big success result the eighth international Olympiad. The organizers of the intellectual competitions are 24 Russian universities – members of the association “Global Universities”, successfully developing in the global market of education and research.

“The Olympiad of the Global Universities Association contributes to achieving one of the indicators of the national project “Youth and Children” – increasing the number of foreign students by 2030 to 500 thousand. In 2024, about 150 thousand people from 185 countries took part in it, which is more than twice the results of the previous year. The winners of the Olympiad will have the right to study in Russia locally within the quota of the Government of the Russian Federation for foreign citizens,” said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.

As noted by the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Valery Falkov, a special feature of the 2024 selection was the launch of a postdoc track, which is aimed at attracting young foreign scientists to work in scientific projects of Russian universities. Holders of a candidate of science or PhD degree from a foreign university are given the opportunity to find employment in one of the research projects offered by the organizing universities.

“We see that the trend for academic mobility remains stable throughout the world, the number of foreign students in Russia is growing. And one of the successful tools of this work is holding such large-scale events as the international Olympiad,” the minister said.

The track for undergraduate students also started for the first time. The winners and prize winners were 2,129 people, the master’s track – 3,928 people, the postgraduate track – 234 people, and among postdocs – 11. In total, this year the participants filled out almost 362 thousand portfolios. The organizers noted the increase in the activity of the participants and a significant improvement in the quality of their preparation: the average score increased at all stages of the intellectual competitions, despite the increased entry requirements for applicants.

The Olympiad is held in 14 broad subject profiles:

— Computer and Data Science

— Business and management

— Engineering and technology

— Clinical medicine and public health

— Biology and biotechnology

— Political science and international relations

— Applied Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

— Education and psychology

— Earth and Environmental Sciences

— Economics and econometrics

— Linguistics and modern languages

— Physical and technical sciences

— Urbanism and civil engineering

— Chemistry and Materials Science

The International Olympiad (known internationally under the brand Russian Scholarship Project Open Doors) has been held since 2017. During this time, more than 500 thousand people from 222 countries of the world took part in it, about 90% of them live in Asia and Africa. More than 12 thousand winners and prize winners received the right to free education in the best Russian universities.

The universities that are members of the Global Universities Association include the universities that are members of the Global Universities Association and the organizers of the Olympiad.

1. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “National Research University “Higher School of Economics”

2. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Samara National Research University named after Academician S.P. Korolev”.

3. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “National Research University ITMO”

4. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “National Research Tomsk State University”

5. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin”

6.Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Far Eastern Federal University”

7. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University)”

8. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Moscow Polytechnic University”

9. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Tyumen State University”

10. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University”

11. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Siberian Federal University”

12. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University”

13. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University”

14. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation”

15. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “National Research Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky”

16. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Novosibirsk National Research State University”

17. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “National Research Technological University “MISIS”

18. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “National Research Nuclear University MEPhI”

19. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Southern Federal University”

20. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” named after V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin)”

21. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba”

22. Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering”

23. Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University)

24. Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Bauman Moscow State Technical University (National Research University)”, as well as the university – co-organizer of the Olympiad in the postgraduate track

25. Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Siberian State Medical University” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

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