Уральский федеральный университет имени первого Президента России Б.Н.Ельцина
Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin
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International Relations

International Students at UrFU

The Ural University is the regional leader in the field of international cooperation. The high level of research conducted at the University is the basis for numerous projects implemented in close cooperation with foreign partners. Research schools in organic chemistry, nuclear physics, mathematics, material science, and communications technologies in UrFU enjoy international recognition.

Since 1991 the University has taken part in 17 Tempus Projects. In 2010 UrFU was one of the first in Russia to join the EU Seventh Framework Programme (project “Towards a Topography of Tolerance and Equal Respect. A comparative study of policies for the distribution of public spaces in culturally diverse societies”).

UrFU has partnership agreements with over 130 universities and research institutes from all continents of the world. Every year these agreements enable more than a hundred UrFU students to study abroad. The UrFU Higher School of Economics runs joint Master’s degree programmes with the universities from Germany and France.

In their turn, students from different countries come to study at UrFU. There are more than a thousand foreign students studying at UrFU today. 

The international partnership is one of the priorities in UrFU development strategy for the years to come. Being situated in the very heart of Eurasia continent, the university had accumulated valuable experience of building reliable educational connections across Central and Eastern Asia. Nowadays, UrFU is aspiring to strengthen its global presence, to establish a network of research collaboration and to increase the academic exchange. Our university is opened to all kinds of international partnership.

UrFU has more than 180 international agreements with universities and research institutions from all parts of the worlds. Over 100 UrFU students annually study abroad in frames of these agreements.

The University participates in various European funding programs including Tempus and FP7. UrFU also takes part in such international projects, as SCO Network University, CIS Network University and Arctic University.

International Student Support Centre

Phones in Ekaterinburg
+7(343)374-54-34
+7(343)375-46-27
E-mail: admission_urfu@ustu.ru