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There are more than 650 state universities in Russia, as well as hundreds of private educational institutions. We offer a ranking of Russian cities by the number of universities.
Free consultationIn Russia, tertiary education is offered by governmental and private universities, academies and institutions. Universities of the wide scale locate throughout the country. In total, there are more than 650 governmental universities including hundreds of private schools that admit international students from more than 200 world countries. Several dozens of cities are reputed to be the place where most students concentrate. The most number of international students prefer to arrive to Moscow and Saints-Petersburg. These two are the countries that warmly welcome students.
There are ten federal-based universities in several Russian cities. They come as the largest educative reference and research centers. Since the date these universities were founded in 2005-2014, the cities to open such tertiary education facilities turn to the student places. Federal-based universities run in Ekaterinburg, Rostov-na-Donu, Taganrog, Yakutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Stavropol, Arkhangelsk, Kazan, Simferolpol, Vladivostok, Kaliningrad. Up to several hundreds of students focus in these cities and universities today.
Russian cities rated by the number of tertiary education institutions
| Ranking | City | per 100,000 people | Universities |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moscow | 5 | 507 |
| 2 | Saint Petersburg | 5 | 150 |
| 3 | Samara | 6 | 54 |
| 4 | Kazan | 6 | 54 |
| 5 | Nizhny Novgorod | 5 | 52 |
| 6 | Novosibirsk | 5 | 51 |
| 7 | Ekaterinburg | 5 | 46 |
| 8 | Omsk | 6 | 43 |
| 9 | Krasnoyarsk | 5 | 41 |
| 10 | Ufa | 6 | 40 |
| 11 | Volgograd | 5 | 40 |
| 12 | Perm | 5 | 39 |
| 13 | Irkutsk | 6 | 39 |
| 14 | Voronezh | 6 | 37 |
| 15 | Chelyabinsk | 4 | 36 |
| 16 | Rostov-on-Don | 4 | 34 |
| 17 | Tomsk | 9 | 34 |
| 18 | Novokuznetsk | 5 | 32 |
| 19 | Barnaul 6 | 30 | |
| 20 | Krasnodar | 6 | 29 |
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