International profile in numbers:

• More than 4300 international students from 101 countries of the world

• 72 joint study programs with the world's leading universities

• 13 scientific laboratories led by world-class scientists

• 40 members of international academies among the teachers and researchers of the university

• 15 Master's programs and 23 PhD programs taught fully in English

• More than 100 foreign delegations representing the world's leading universities, international organizations and companies, diplomatic missions visit the university annually

• More than 200 students, teachers and researchers of the university take part in international academic mobility programs every year

One of the leading universities in Russia, Ural Federal University:

• follows the strategy of the federal project "Export of Education"

• develops a multicultural educational and research environment

• supports the participation of students and academic staff in international programs and projects

• collaborates with world-class experts, including from abroad,

• expands academic exchange of students and staff,

• ensures the competitiveness of its graduates in the labor market: all students have the opportunity to undergo training internships at partner universities abroad and professional internships in partner companies of the university

• is a platform for international dialogue, one of the centers of public diplomacy

• is one of the leaders in employment in the Russian Federation: over 85% of graduates get employed within the first 6 months after graduation

• brings together its alumni through associations in different countries of the world and offers opportunities to contribute to the development of their country and international cooperation

• cooperates with more than 500 foreign universities and develops cooperation with both Russian and foreign enterprises on the basis of UIREC

On July 9, 2019, the university hosted a meeting of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with students and graduate students. The President supported the idea of ​​creating a world-class scientific and educational center in the Urals.

The Ural Interregional Research and Education Center (UIREC) — ‘Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials’ is designed to unite the efforts of educational and scientific organizations and organizations of the real sector of the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions in the field of applied scientific research and development of the world level, obtaining competitive technologies and products with the aim of their subsequent commercialization. In addition, on the basis of UIREC, professional personnel are trained to solve scientific and technological problems for breakthrough development in priority areas and increase the competitiveness of the economies of the subjects.

The Center unites the potentials of educational and scientific institutions and organizations of the real economy sector of the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions in conducting world level applied research and designs, obtaining competitive technologies and products and their subsequent commercialization, as well as training for solving scientific and technological problems pursuing a goal of breakthrough development in priority areas and increasing the competitiveness of the economies of the subjects in the perimeter of the center. REC is realized in a complex of projects of creation of world-class scientific centers on the basis of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Innovative Scientific and Technological Center 'Tatishchev'. More than 250 partners and enterprises concluded agreements on cooperation within the UIREC framework.

The project of the scientific and educational center is being implemented in conjunction with projects to create world-class scientific centers on the basis of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the innovative scientific and technological center "Tatishchev". The activities of the centers, together with the potential of the existing innovative infrastructure of the region, will allow combining the existing formats of cooperation and support measures for projects of all levels of technological readiness (from exploratory research to pilot production) and stimulate the development of new formats of scientific and technological cooperation.

The participants of the UIREC are working on solving scientific problems that contribute to the development of subjects within the perimeter of the Center, and can bring a significant economic effect in the future 5-10 years.

The German-Russian Summer School is a joint project of UrFU and the Berlin Technical University, as well as the Technical University of Dortmund.

Since 2015, the project is held under the auspice of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany F.-V. Steinmeier, Honorary Doctor of UrFU, and has been funded by Russian and German companies. For the first time, the Russian-German Summer Energy School was held in 2015 and became a traditional annual event. In 2016, at the Ural Federal University the then German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took part in the opening ceremony of the German-Russian school.

The partners of the project are PJSC Rosseti, Prosoft Systems LLC, Schneider-Electric, Siemens, WILO SE, EUREF AG, Uniper SE, Dieffenbacher GmbH, EnergyEurasia GmbH.

The project of the summer school of the Ural Federal University and the Technical University of Dortmund was awarded as the winner of the competition "Russia and Germany: scientific and educational bridges" (Russian-German Year of Scientific and Educational Exchange). The results were summed up at the closing ceremony of the Russian-German Year of Scientific and Educational Partnerships 2018–2020.

In 2021, the German-Russian Summer School "Environmental Protection and New Energy Partnership between Russia and Germany" (in the framework of the German Year of Science) will be held in Yekaterinburg.

UrFU has official relations with the UN. In 2018 and 2019, UrFU hosted two UN Under-Secretaries-General: A. Smeil - UN Under-Secretary General for Global Communication and M.M. Sharif - Executive Director of the UN-Habitat Programme, Head of UN Headquarters in Nairobi.

• Following the meeting with A. Smeil, the UN Hall was opened at UrFU - a specialized auditoruim for international relations studies, supported by the UN Information Center in Moscow.
• Following the visit of M.M. Sharif was created by the UN Center for Sustainable Development at UrFU with the support of UN-Habitat and the UN Information Center in Moscow.
• In 2020, UN Secretary General A. Guterres sent a congratulatory letter upon the UrFU's 100th Anniversary.