International profile in numbers:

• 4600+ international students from 110+ countries of the world
• 72 joint study programs with the world's leading universities
• 12 international R&D laboratories led by world-class scientists
• 40 members of international academies among the teachers and researchers of the university
• 15 Master's programs and 47 PhD programs taught fully in English (+ 2 Bachelor's Programs and 3 Master's programs partially in English)
• 200 foreign professors
• 200 international PhD students
• 100+ foreign delegations representing the world's leading universities, international organizations and diplomatic missions visit the university annually
• 200+ students, teachers and researchers of the university take part in international academic mobility programs every year

As one of the leading universities in Russia Ural Federal University completes the following tasks:

• 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

• 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

UrFU is one of the leaders of 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 organizations and develops cooperation with both Russian and foreign enterprises on the basis of UIREC

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

Ural Interregional Research and Education Center (UIREC) ‘Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials’ is designed to unite the efforts of educational and scientific organizations and industrial companies of the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions in the field of applied scientific research and development of the world level.

The UIREC vision: obtaining competitive technologies and products, and their subsequent commercialization.

The UIREC mission:

• solving scientific and technological problems for breakthrough development in priority areas
• ensuring sustainable development of the leading industrail regions: Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan

UIREC is realising a complex of projects on the basis of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Innovative Scientific and Technological Center 'Tatishchev'. More than 250 russian and international partners and enterprises concluded agreements on cooperation within the UIREC framework.

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.