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The university keeps warm memories of its graduates and the time when they studied and built their future at RUDN University. Today, for their children and grandchildren, the university offers its best Russian language courses completely free of charge.
One of the main questions that concerns students at any university is how to gain their first professional experience before completing their studies. At RUDN University, this process is structured systematically, from choosing an internship to potential employment opportunities.
The writing round of the final stage of The Moscow School Olympiad in the Arabic language took place at RUDN University. The competition was organized by the Center of Pedagogical Excellence.
More than 13,000 international students study at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba. We deeply value the continuous support and assistance provided to our students by embassies and diplomatic missions in Russia. In celebration of the University’s anniversary, and as a token of appreciation for this support, we are pleased to offer a special gift — a special online Russian language course for staff of diplomatic missions.
RUDN University, together with the rest of the world, is already almost on the threshold of the new year, 2026. Looking back on the past year, there is much to remember and be proud of. Here are some of the university's achievements in quotes.
More than 500 experts from 77 countries discussed the best practices and methods of designing inclusive education at RUDN University. The international scientific and practical conference “Current Problems of Inclusive Education in the world: Context, Policy and practice” was held with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO.
Training qualified foreign specialists, educational strategies, collaborations, digital technologies and much more were discussed during the II International Educational Forum at RUDN University. The event brought together more than 1,000 participants and 300 speakers from 40 countries, including representatives of government, scientific organizations and businesses, as well as rectors of leading universities. This time, the focus was on cooperation with partners from the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region and Africa.
The first RAEX ranking of universities in sustainable development has been published to feature 7 Russian universities. RUDN University is among the top seven, while it was awarded class AA, demonstrating a very high level of sustainability performance.
In honor of the 65th anniversary of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba, the Digital Pre-University Faculty gives a unique opportunity to RUDN foreign alumni to communicate in Russian and their family members to study Russian together with the best professors of RUDN.
The new list of federal innovation platforms (FIP) of the Russian Federation includes 30 new organisations. Among them is Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba. This became possible thanks to the development of the Digital Pre-University Faculty of RUDN.
December 15, Minsk hosted the IX International Student Olympiad in Human Anatomy. It was attended by 9 teams from Russia and Belarus. Students of RUDN took two 3rd places in the theoretical and practical rounds.
The VI Firsova Readings conference “Modern languages and cultures: variability, functions, ideologies in the cognitive aspect”, held at the Faculty of Philology brought together speakers from Russia, England, Hungary, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, working in 9 thematic sessions. The conference featured a workshop, a round table and three seminars in Russian and English.