RUDN University Olympiad – chance for foreign students to get tuition-free education
Students from 154 countries study at the most famous multi-national university of Russia. Today the main task of RUDN university is to attract talented youth from all over the world rather than to increase the number of foreign students.
Students from 154 countries study at the most famous multi-national university of Russia. Today the main task of RUDN university is to attract talented youth from all over the world rather than to increase the number of foreign students. Annually 15000 students from around the world get scholarships from the Russian Government. There is another alternative way to study on the budgetary basis: to participate in the Olympiad and prove that you are the worthiest one.
In 2016 RUDN university held 27 Olympiads in 6 subjects: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, the Russian Language, Jurisprudence/Social science; they were held in Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Colombia, Peru, Senegal, Ecuador. The greatest number of the Olympiads took were held in Ecuador and Senegal. The most popular Olympiads in Physics and Mathematics took place in all the listed countries.
"At first young people are afraid and nervous, but when they see that the text is in their native language, that everybody treats them kindly, that the prize-winner has an opportunity to acquire tuition-free study at our university, they calm down" - the Vice Rector on international academic mobility Larisa Efremova stated.
The Olympiads are held in 6 languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese and French.
The Olympiad movement of RUDN university is not only a way to find applicants who master the curriculum well, but also to attract the best of the best. The professors of RUDN worked out 2 sets of tests. The first one aims at assessing the basic level of applicants’ knowledge, the second one aims at assessing applicants’ wit, intellect and creative approach to finding solutions.
In order to become a first-year student of bachelor’s course or a specialist’s program, an applicant has to fulfill a number of tasks in general subjects. If an applicant enters masters’ course he has to take exams in special subjects.
38 winners have already become students of RUDN university, among them there are future lawyers, ecologists, agronomists and engineers.
The new list of federal innovation sites (FIS) of the Russian Federation includes 30 new organizations. Among them is the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. This became possible thanks to the development of the Digital Preparatory Faculty of RUDN University.
RUDN rose to the 26th position in the UI GreenMetric 2022 ranking and confirmed the status of the “greenest” university in Russia. The ranking includes 1,050 world universities, of which 52 are Russian.
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia is represented in all 16 subject rankings and in five out of six subject profiles of the Expert Analytical Center ranking. RUDN University showed the best results in the following areas: “Ecology” and “Agriculture and Biological Sciences” — 1st place. “Mathematics”, “Chemistry”, “Artificial Intelligence”, “Renewable Energy” are in the TOP — 5 subject ranking. In total, 152 universities were ranked in 2022 (137 in 2021).