Applicants from 55 Russian regions and 37countries have applied to TSU

8 August 2016

According to the statistics on August 1, this year 21,895 applications from 7,783 students were accepted at TSU.

- For applicants the place that a university occupies in the global and Russian rankings is becoming increasingly important. Tomsk State University attracts because its constant growth, - says Evgeny Pavlov, head of the TSU admission campaign.

Department of Psychology (1,223 applications) and the Faculty of Foreign Languages (1,106 applications) have become leaders at TSU in 2016in the number of applications for full-time studying in Bachelor’s and Specialist's programmes. The next most popular was the Faculty of History and the Institute of Economics and Management (both have 1023 applications). The highest competition traditionally had legal and economic areas, the overall competition on the faculties was 8 and 7 people per place, then in the top 5 most popular areas are journalism, foreign languages, and psychology (6.9; 6.4 and about 5 people per place ).

Visiting committee of the University has successful work this year: the number of applicants from the CIS countries exceeded 750 people. In total TSU Admission Commission received 1,260 applications for admission of citizens from 37 other countries.

- The level of education at TSU increases every year. We develop, implement new technologies and methods, that is exactly what is needed in the modern world - said Evgeny Pavlov. 

The main phase of the admission campaign was completed on August 3. The applicants were enrolled at 80% of budget places for the full-time and part-time form of training in a Bachelor’s and Specialist's degree. However, the acceptance of documents and the competitive selection of the magistracy and postgraduate study are still in progress. The final results of the admission campaign - 2016 will be announced in late August.