The registration for the Open Doors Olympics has finished

23 December 2019

On December 18, 2019, registration for the Open Doors Olympics for international master’s students, organized by the Global Universities Association in the person of 21 member universities of the Association (participants of the 5-100 Project), has completed.

Over 35,000 people (1.5 times more than last year) from over 180 countries (27 more than last year) that filled 48,083 portfolios (67% more than last year) have registered on 11 profiles of the Olympics.

This is the first project in Russia to attract talented international master’s students to study at leading Russian universities, covering almost all countries of the world.

The Olympiad is held in Russian and English, in two stages, each of which takes place online, which helps Russian universities to attract the most trained and motivated international master’s students from leading countries. The Olympiad helps us to promote Russian higher education in the open global market, fully competing for the best applicants.

Representatives of Asian and African countries (88%) are most interested in studying at Russian universities, this year representatives of the CIS countries made up 6%, America - 3%, Europe, Australia and Oceania - 1% each.

TSU is the organizer of three areas of the Olympiad: Linguistics and Modern Languages, for which 2,817 people from 130 countries have registered this year; Psychology – 2,450 registrations from 125 countries, Biology – 4,006 registrations from 21 countries.

The leaders in the number of registrations to our destinations are Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, India, and Ghana.

Participants who submit their portfolios for the first stage are now waiting for the announcement of the results, which will be held on December 30. The best participants will be admitted to the second stage, which will be held in January 2020 in proctoring mode.

- The participant of the Olympiad installs special software on the computer. It will help to identify the participant and provide comprehensive monitoring during the period of the olympiad tasks (3 hours). For the first time, the holding of olympiad events in the proctoring mode was tested in 2017. Now this technology is actively used by universities, - said the organizers of the Olympiad

Winners of the Olympics will be announced on February 20, 2020.

Winners of the Olympics will receive the right to free education at any of the best Russian universities on the basis of the quota for the education of the Government of the Russian Federation. Winners and prize-winners of the Olympics can get additional opportunities offered by the organizing universities of the Olympics.
More than 300 quotas have been allocated for participants in the 2019/2020 Olympics.