University exports education

12:15, August 21, 2017

The university joined the new project of the Ministry of Education and Science

Ural Federal University will enter the consortium of universities that export Russian higher education.

The project "Education Export" was launched in May in order to increase the attractiveness of Russian universities for international students and improve the conditions for studying and staying in Russia. It is planned that the revenues from the export of Russian education in eight years will reach 373 billion rubles.

The Ministry of Education and Science noted that it is necessary to develop educational programs in English, create online training, and organize tourist routes and summer programs for foreigners.

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Currently, more than two thousand international students go to UrFU. According to the research, foreigners aspire to study economics and management, medicine, pedagogy in Russia. The greatest interest in Russian universities is among residents of the former Soviet republics, China, India and Vietnam.

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.