First, we will list universities that have lost their license and/or accreditation. Then we will understand the concepts. And at the very end of the article we summarize everything in the memos for schoolchildren and students.

Find out all the information about the university before applying

Universities deprived of their licenses

The most serious problem of universities. Without a license they are not allowed to drive educational activities. Education in such an institution does not carry any value.

List of universities without a license:

abbreviation	Full title
Moscow city
	Academic international institute
	Institute business, psychology and management
	Industry Institute fashion
	Institute international social and humanitarian relations
	Institute economy business
	Industrial institute
	International Academy assessments and consulting
	Moscow Institute of Analytical psychology and psychoanalysis
	Moscow Institute banking
	Municipal Institute of Zhukovsky
	Moscow Institute the rights
	Moscow Institute physical culture and sports
	Moscow new legal institute
	New humanitarian institute
	Modern humanitarian academy
	Metropolitan humanitarian and economic institute
Saint Petersburg
	European University
	Nevsky Institute of Management and Design
Regions
	Barnaul: Altai Academy of Economics and Law
	Ekaterinburg: Ural Humanitarian Institute
	Samara:Samara Institute business and management
	Sochi: Sochi Institute of Economics and information technologies

Suspended licenses:

The lists are constantly updated: someone regains the right to teach students, someone loses it. Be careful! Some unscrupulous universities do not report the revocation of the license and continue to accept documents.

If the license was revoked during school year, you have the right to request a transfer to another institution with similar learning conditions.

Universities deprived of accreditation

Only accredited institutions can issue state diplomas. Universities without accreditation can recruit students, conduct studying proccess. But you will receive a diploma of the established form, which has no value in the labor market. Also, such institutions do not have the right to grant a deferment from the army.

List of universities that have recently lost their accreditation:

abbreviation	Full title
Moscow city
	Institute of the Commonwealth of Independent States
	Moscow Institute of State and Corporate management
	Moscow Institute psychology
	Moscow Institute energy security and energy saving
	Moscow open institute
	international Slavic institute
	First Moscow legal institute
Saint Petersburg
	Baltic humanitarian institute
	Baltic Institute foreign languages and international cooperation
	Baltic Institute of Ecology politics and law
	Institute television, business and design
	St. Petersburg Institute hospitality
	St. Petersburg Institute management and law
	St. Petersburg Institute economics, culture and business administration
Regions
	Astrakhan: Institute of World Economy and Finance
	Ekaterinburg: Ural Institute of Commerce and Law
	Ekaterinburg: Ural Finance and Law Institute
	Izhevsk: International Eastern European University
	Krasnodar: Institute modern technologies and economy
	Kursk: Regional Financial and Economic Institute
	Novosibirsk: Siberian Academy of Management and mass communications
	Naberezhnye Chelny: Kama Institute of Arts and Design
	Tomsk: Tomsk Institute of Business
	Khabarovsk: Amur Institute of Agroeconomics and Business
Chiep them. M. V. Ladoshina	Chelyabinsk: Chelyabinsk Institute of Economics and Law. M. V. Ladoshina

A year after the deprivation of accreditation, the university may try to return it.

The university may be deprived of accreditation completely or only in some areas. If the status is lost during the school year, you are eligible for a transfer to another educational institution under similar conditions of study. In this case, you can choose another specialty. To transfer, you need to write an application.

Inefficient universities

Every year, the Ministry of Education and Science monitors the effectiveness of universities. When checking, it analyzes:

• educational activities (competitive scores for the Unified State Examination and DWI);
• research activities (income from its conduct);
• financial and economic activity;
• the percentage of employment of graduates during the first year after graduation;
• salary teaching staff;
• the number of brought students (for branches);
• additional indicators (availability of teachers with high qualifications, titles, etc.).

If a university falls behind the norm in four or more indicators, it is recognized as inefficient. Such institutions have nine months to correct the situation. The weakest universities are threatened with reorganization or deprivation of their licenses.

Here is a list of some inefficient universities based on the monitoring results for 2017.

Inefficient universities:

abbreviation	Full title
Moscow city
	Moscow Psychological and Social University
VSSI them. K. Raikin	Higher School of Performing Arts. K. Raikin
	Academy of watercolors and fine arts of Sergey Andriyaka
	Institute of Information Technologies, Economics and Management
	Institute of International Trade and Law
	Moscow State Academy of Water Transport
Saint Petersburg
	Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies
Regions
	Ekaterinburg: Ural Institute of Economics, Management and Law
DagGAU im. M. M. Dzhambulatova	Makhachkala: Dagestan State Agrarian University. M. M. Dzhambulatova
	Nizhny Novgorod: Nizhny Novgorod law academy
	Simferopol: Crimean Institute of Business
	Tver: Tver Institute of Economics and Law

This list can include not only little-known educational institutions, but also the top universities of the country. This may be due, for example, to their narrow focus. In addition to monitoring results, look at the university's rating, find student reviews, study the teaching staff.

Reorganized universities

Most often, the reorganization of universities is carried out in order to improve the quality of education. The weakest educational institutions are attached to the strong ones. This happens only by mutual agreement of both parties.

The largest reorganization processes in recent years:

• RGGRU them. S. Ordzhonikidze became a structural subdivision of RGUNG;
• MAMI and MGUP im. I. Fedorova united in the Moscow Polytechnic University (MPU);
• GKA them. Maimonides joins MGUDT;
• On the basis of MIIT, the Russian University of Transport appeared.

In fact, the reorganization for students and applicants brings only positive changes. They will have the opportunity to get a better education in a strong university. Students who studied at the institution at the time of its accession, with their written consent, move to a new university.

Reminder for applicants

University status	What does it mean	What to do with it
No license No accreditation	Prohibition on teaching students You can not get a state diploma and a deferment from the army	Look for another university for admission
reorganized	Joining a stronger university	Apply to a joint university
Ineffective	Does not meet established performance standards. Perhaps there are problems with the quality of education and equipment	Doing with low scores

Reminder for students

University status	What does it mean?	What to do with it?
Deprived of license	Education at the university ends within five working days
Deprived of accreditation	You can continue learning. But at the end you will receive a non-state diploma	Write an application for transfer to another university with similar conditions of study
Reorganized	The name of the new university will be written on your diploma	keep learning
Inefficient	The rector will be replaced soon, the process of reorganization of the university will begin	Be ready to transfer to another university in case of license revocation or reorganization

Do not rush to choose a university. Check several times to see if he's okay. Then you won't have to waste your time. And remember that you can find a way out of any situation.

Which violate people's rights to quality education.

This statement was preceded by their affiliates. For example, in the village of Vyoshenskaya, Rostov Region. Over the past five years, representative offices of four universities have been opened, three of which have settled in one building - the local library. Sholokhov. As it turned out, some of the "head" universities did not even suspect the existence of "branches". A similar situation has developed in the Sverdlovsk region. And one private university Irkutsk taught a program completely "written off" from high school Economics (HSE), and earned a lot on this.

University purges

But, apparently, the closure will affect not only openly fraudulent organizations that illegally worked under the brand of well-known educational institutions. Law enforcement should take care of them. Optimization will take place much more widely. And it has already begun. “Which universities are we talking about? First, about attestation of the branch network, - explains Irina Abankina, Director, Institute for the Development of Education at the Higher School of Economics. - We have about 3,000 branches per thousand universities. On average, 11 branches for humanitarian universities and 3-4 for technical ones. Secondly, about universities that. Careful checks are needed to ensure that the university complies with the certificate. It is difficult to take away a license from a university. First you need to answer the question: where should students go, especially if they have already paid for their education? The issue needs to be worked out."

Nevertheless, according to some reports, out of a thousand universities, the authorities plan to leave about a third in a few years, uprooting, as one of them put it. senior officials, universities are "toadstools". However, not all experts agree that weak universities should only be closed.

“The very idea of ​​closing universities is wrong,” he said. Mark Agranovich, Executive Director of the Interregional Association for Monitoring and Statistics of Education. - It is necessary to close not universities, but programs. One university can have two good programs, and 15 is rubbish. For example, the old school of foundry teaching has been preserved in a regional university. She needs to be saved. What does "bad program" mean? This means that p. It’s not a pity then to put them out if they have the audacity to teach what they don’t understand. If a student comes to a university and is deceived, then such a university has no place in the system of higher education. If only one good program remains at the university, then it can be attached to a larger one. Need to build systems external evaluation quality instead of today's formal accreditation of universities”.

Where does the "left" come from?

There are other questions as well. If now, according to experts, 80-90% of the population is covered by higher education, won't it turn out that due to a decrease in the number of universities, the accessibility of higher education will decrease, especially for children from the regions? And as a result, the general intellectual level of the population will decrease.

“Why are “leftist” universities in demand? - asking a question Kirill Mitrofanov, Head of the Center for Independent Assessment of the Quality of Education FIRO. - The simplest answer: "crusts" are sold. There is a decrease in the value of higher education and diplomas. A person with a degree is no different from a person without it. The second point: the boys go to any university to avoid the charms of an organization called the "army", and the girls follow them, in search of a husband. After all, there an educated girl is more likely to marry an educated man. But even pseudo-higher education has positive aspects. For example, why are many businessmen even more willing to take girls with higher education as sellers in a "stall" than? Because they have a higher cultural level, they speak differently. By the way, historically, women's higher education appeared so that a woman could communicate competently in the family - with servants (set goals for governesses, housekeepers), children. You can simply destroy weak universities, or you can do it. We're starting to catch up general education European countries. In Europe, students study for 12-14 years, in our country - 9-10. So let our children get what they need at the expense of 3 years of bachelor's degree. And then, if desired, a master's degree, but better not one. And in general, until the goal is formulated (“What is this being done for?”, and not “Why?”), the reduction of universities resembles a “cleansing”.

Obviously, it should be aimed at improving quality, and not at reducing quantity. One of the main arguments of the authorities is that it is economically unjustified to have so many universities. There are more of them than students. After all, 5-6 years ago we had 1.5 million school graduates, last year - 730 thousand.

But won't it work like with? In the 90s, when the birth rate in the country fell to a record low level, kindergartens were massively closed, the premises were sold, rented out. And today the reverse process has begun: for 2007-2011. the birth rate has grown by almost 20%, there is a catastrophic shortage of places in the gardens, as a result, they are building new ones, trying to return and repair the old ones. But these kids will go to universities in 10-15 years. Will we start building the required number of institutions again?

According to published data, the number of inefficient universities subject to reorganization, in Russian capital was 49. The list included the Stolypin Humanitarian Institute, the Institute of Business and Economics, the National Institute of Design, the Fashion Industry Institute, the Humanitarian Prognostic Institute, the Institute of Business Career and others.

In St. Petersburg, based on the results of the monitoring, 12 organizations will be reorganized. In particular, the published list included the Academic Institute for Humanitarian Education, the National Open Institute, the Smolny Institute Russian Academy education, the Institute of Television, Business and Design, the Baltic Institute for the Humanities and others. Note that all of the listed organizations are non-governmental.

In addition, it became known that the optimization of activities will be carried out in 26 Russian universities. Three of them are located in the Central Federal District - Kaluga State University. K.E. Tsiolkovsky, Kursk State Agricultural Academy. professor I.I. Ivanov, Ryazan State University. S. A. Yesenina. In the capital, the optimization process will primarily affect the State Academy Slavic culture, Moscow Academy of Entrepreneurship under the Government of Moscow, St. Philaret Orthodox Christian Institute.

In total, according to the results of monitoring in 2013, 373 organizations - universities and their branches were recognized as ineffective. In total, 934 state and non-state universities and 1,478 branches took part in the monitoring conducted by officials.

The obligation to monitor the performance of educational institutions of higher education was normatively enshrined in the Federal Law of December 29, 2012 No. 273-FZ “On Education in Russian Federation”, at the order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated December 30, 2012 No. 2620-r “Changes in industries social sphere aimed at improving the efficiency of education and science” and in Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated August 5, 2013 No. 662 “On Monitoring the Education System”.

Experts point out that non-state higher educational institutions mostly require reorganization. Among them are the Kirov Institute of Foreign Languages, the Orenburg Institute of Economics and Culture, the Perm Institute of Humanities and Technology, the Samara Institute of Management, East Siberian Institute Economics and Law, Kursk Road Institute, Sochi Institute of Economics and Information Technologies, Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis (Moscow), Moscow School of Economics - Financial Institute, National Institute of Design (Moscow).

Earlier it was reported that the following state universities: Volga Institute of Economics, Pedagogics and Law, Volgograd state institute of Arts and Culture, Serebryakov Volgograd Conservatory, Kursk Academy of State and Municipal Service, Arctic State Institute of Arts and Culture, Novocherkassk State Ameliorative Academy.

The Ministry of Education and Science emphasized that when monitoring the effectiveness, specialists assessed the human resources potential of the university, the publication activity of teachers, the total scientific research, logistics, employment of graduates. Also, when assessing financial support, the average salary of teachers in relation to the average salary in the region was also taken into account.

“In the overwhelming majority of universities recognized as inefficient, average salary teachers significantly falls short of the indicator for the region, and in some cases it is only 10-15%,” said Deputy Minister of Education Alexander Klimov.

When assessing staffing educational process the ratio between the number of teachers and students was analyzed.

According to Klimov, “it turned out that in some universities, in fact, not training is carried out, but the streaming issuance of diplomas, there are several dozen students per teacher.”

The high-ranking official also noted that a large share of the teaching load in inefficient universities, as a rule, is performed by freelance teachers.

Last year, 541 state universities participated, some of the private ones also provided information about themselves, but no one had the right to force them to do so. As a result, almost 30 universities were recognized as inefficient.

In the meantime, the Russian Union of Rectors has already begun to form a nationwide network of counseling centers to support teachers and students of those universities that are planned to be optimized or reorganized based on the results of monitoring in 2013. This was announced today, January 13, in the press service of the PCP. As explained in the press service, “councils of rectors federal districts and regions of Russia coordinately determine university platforms where specialists in the field of law, financial activities and social protection will provide psychological and informational support to employees and students of universities in the event of the termination of the activities of higher educational institutions based on the results of the past monitoring of effectiveness.

They also emphasized that it is necessary that in the conditions of reorganization "each member of the student and teaching corporations understand their role and prospects in the new university." In addition, the counseling centers will monitor the observance of the rights of students and faculty during the reorganization - to inform the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and quickly jointly resolve emerging contradictions.

A proposal for a list of educational organizations on the basis of which coordination centers will be created is formed by the Union of Rectors on the basis of instructions from the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and will be submitted for approval on January 24 of this year.

List of universities subject to reorganization

The list of educational organizations of higher education and branches classified in the group " educational organization higher education, which is inefficient
and in need of reorganization

1. "Arctic State Institute of Arts and Culture"
2. Kirov Institute of Foreign Languages
3. Academic Humanitarian Institute
4. "Orenburg Institute of Economics and Culture"
5. "Perm Institute of Humanities and Technology"
6. "Ural Humanitarian Institute"
7. Kumertau Institute of Economics and Law
8. "Mordovia Humanitarian Institute"
9. "Almetyevsk State Institute of Municipal Service"
10. Samara Institute of Management
11. "Izhevsk Institute of Management"
12. Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Management and Business
13. West Ural Institute of Economics and Law
14. Perm Institute municipal government(High School of Privatization and Entrepreneurship)"
15. " Regional Institute technology and management"
16. Institute of Management
17. "Northern Institute of Entrepreneurship"
18. Kaliningrad Institute of Management
19. " International Institute business education"
20. "Baltic Institute of Economics and Finance"
21. "Nevsky Institute of Language and Culture"
22. "Dagestan Medical Dental Institute"
23. "International Humanitarian and Technical Academy" (Institute)
24. Institute of World Economy
25. "Dagestan Theological Institute named after Said Afandi"
26. "North Caucasian Humanitarian Institute"
27. "Institute of Friendship of the Peoples of the Caucasus"
28. Stavropol Institute named after V.D. Chursina"
29. Stavropol Institute of Business and Technology "Businesstrans"
30. "Baikal Humanitarian Institute"
31. "East Siberian Institute of Economics and Law"
32. "Kuzbass Institute of Economics and Law"
33. Novosibirsk Institute of Economics and Management
34. "Siberian Institute of Business, Management and Psychology"
35. Siberian Institute international relations and regional studies
36. "Siberian Academy of Management and Mass Communications (Institute)"
37. "Siberian Academy of Law, Economics and Management"
38. "Chelyabinsk Multidisciplinary Institute" (ANOVPO "ChelMI")
39. European-Asian Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship
40. Institute of Business, Information Technology and Finance
41. "Kursk Road Institute"
42. Institute of International Economic Relations
43. Autonomous educational non-profit "Institute of Economic Management Systems and International Law"
44. "Moscow Regional Social and Humanitarian Institute"
45. "Modern Technical Institute"
46. ​​"Ryazan Institute of Management and Law"
47. "Eastern European Institute of Economics, Management and Law" (ANO VPO VEIEUP)
48. Institute of Law and Administration of the All-Russian Police Association
49. "Institute of Economics and Management" (ANO VPO "IEU")
50. "Kursk Academy of State and Municipal Service"
51. "Sergiev Posad Humanitarian Institute"
52. "Lipetsk Environmental and Humanitarian Institute"
53. Institute of Law and Economics
54. "Regional open social institution"
55. "International Academy of Education (Institute)"
56. "Institute of Journalism and Literary Creativity"
57. Russian Theater Institute
58. "Institute of Management and Informatics"
59. "Volgograd Institute of Economics, Sociology and Law"
60. "Armavir Socio-Psychological Institute"
61. Institute of International Law, Economics, humanities and management named after K.V. Russian" (PHOU VPO "Institute named after the Russian")
62. "Kuban Institute of Information Protection"
63. "Otradnensky Humanitarian Institute"
64. "Sochi Institute of Economics and Information Technologies"
65. "Novocherkassk State Reclamation Academy"
66. "Don Institute of Distance Education"
67. Open Education Institute
68. "Volgograd Conservatory (Institute) named after P. A. Serebryakov"
69. "Volgograd State Institute of Arts and Culture"
70. "Volga Institute of Economics, Pedagogy and Law"
71. "Institute of Economics and Management in Medicine and the Social Sphere"
72. Southern Institute of Management
73. "Institute of Financial Control and Audit"
74. "Humanitarian and Prognostic Institute"
75. "Humanitarian Institute (Moscow)"
76. “Humanitarian Institute named after P.A. Stolypin"
77. Institute of Business and Law
78. "Institute of Business and Economics"
79. "Institute of Public Administration"
80. Business Career Institute
81. INSTITUTE OF PRACTICAL ORIENTAL STUDIES
82. "Institute Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis"
83. Institute of Modern Law and Economics
84. "Institute of Social Sciences"
85. Institute of Business Economics
86. Institute of Economics and Culture
87. "Institute of Economics and Management in Construction and Industry"
88. "International Jewish Institute of Economics, Finance and Law"
89. "International Institute - "INFO-Ruthenia"
90. "Moscow School of Economics - financial institution"
91. Moscow Institute of Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis
92. Moscow Institute of World Economy and International Relations
93. Moscow Institute of Management and Service
94. Moscow Institute of Art and Industry
95. "National Institute of Design"
96. Open Institute of Technology
97. "Capital Institute of Translators"
98. Economic and Legal Institute
99. "Economic and Law Institute"
100. Institute of Commerce and Law
101. "Institute of Management and Law"
102. "Academy of the sphere of social relations"
103. "Higher School of Psychology (Institute)"
104. "Institute of Humanitarian Education and Information Technologies"
105. Institute of Fashion Industry
106. "Institute of Communication Technologies"
107. Institute of International Trade and Law
108. Institute of International social and humanitarian connections"
109. Institute of Management, Economics and Innovations
110. "Institute of Management, Economics, Law and Art"
111. Moscow Humanitarian and Economic Institute
112. "Moscow Institute of State and Corporate Governance"
113. "Moscow Institute of Public Administration and Law"
114. "Moscow Institute of National and Regional Relations" ("MINRO")
115. Moscow Institute of Economics "Higher School "Modern Education"
116. Autonomous non-profit "National Institute named after Catherine the Great"
117. Autonomous non-profit Russian Academy of Entrepreneurship
118. “Russian Institute of Management named after V.P. Chernov"
119. "Moscow Social and Humanitarian Institute"
120. Moscow Institute of Law
121. "Economic and Energy Institute"
122. "Moscow Institute of Open Education"
123. St. Petersburg Medical and Social Institute
124. "Academic Institute for Humanitarian Education"
125. "East European Institute of Psychoanalysis" (CHOU VPO "VEIP")
126. "Oriental Institute"
127. "National Open Institute of St. Petersburg" (NCHOU VPO "National Open Institute")
128. "St. Petersburg Institute for Humanitarian Education"
129. St. Petersburg Institute of Management and Law
130. St. Petersburg Institute of Economics and Management (SPbIEU)
131. "Smolny Institute of the Russian Academy of Education" (ANO VPO) "SURAO"
132. "Institute of Television, Business and Design"
133. "Institute of Design, Applied Arts and Liberal Education"
134. "Baltic Humanitarian Institute"
135. "Institute of Economics and Finance"

“Because of the black lists, I didn’t even go on vacation”
Deputy Head Federal Service on supervision in the field of education Elena Gevorkyan told the correspondent of "Vlast" Sergei Petukhov about the risks in Russian system education.

- Are there any guarantees that the university where you enter will not be closed?
— There are two minimum guarantees: that the university has state accreditation and a license for the right to conduct educational activities. If there is only a license and no accreditation, then the university can conduct educational activities, but does not enjoy benefits, and you can, for example, be drafted into the army. Therefore, if you think that you need the knowledge that this particular university will give you, you should be prepared for the risk of getting into the army. But upon graduation, you will not receive a state diploma anyway. Such universities often guarantee that they will pass state accreditation during the period of your study. But this must be treated with great caution. No one can guarantee passage. This is a very long and laborious procedure, and the decision is made not by an official, but by the accreditation board at our service, consisting of representatives of universities, the public, the association of employers, etc. There are fifty people in total, and even I don’t know how they will vote.
- If there are no guarantees, then how to reduce the risk?
— It is necessary to carefully approach the conclusion of an agreement with the university. If they tell you that they guarantee the passage of accreditation, let them write it down in the contract. At least you will have a reason, if this does not happen, to sue for non-compliance with the terms of the contract. In addition, advertising should definitely alert you, such universities always give very wide advertising and promise unrealizable things. For example, higher education for three years. We get a bachelor's degree in four years, a specialist - in five years. If it's evening or distance learning the deadline is extended for another year. It can't be shorter. The next thing to watch out for is the low cost. According to our calculations, a year of study in the humanities, that is, low-cost specialties, costs about $1200-1500. If lower, you need to ask where the rest of the money comes from. After all, the university may have sponsors. And finally, do not be too lazy to talk with graduates of your chosen university: where did they get a job, what difficulties did they have after that with diplomas.
— What about drafting into the army?
- IN state universities the deferment from the army is granted simply because you are a full-time student. In non-state - only if you are studying at an accredited educational program. Here you have to be very careful when entering. In addition to the certificate of accreditation, the university also has an appendix to it. It is written there, according to what curricula the university is accredited - for all or not. If only for some, you can be taken into the army, and students from neighboring faculties or even groups will not be touched.
Do students care?
- Girls are not yet taken into the army, but if they study at correspondence department, then they should be prepared for the fact that they will not have benefits when paying for vacations for the session. And finally, all students - both girls and boys - must understand that they will have a non-state diploma.
- So what?
- Graduates with such diplomas often think for the first time about what they were given instead of a diploma of higher education when going to work abroad. There is such a procedure - nastrification, that is, the recognition of a diploma obtained in one country, suitable for another country. But even if there is a country that is ready to recognize the diploma of an unaccredited Russian university, it will not be able to do this. According to international rules, nastrification is preceded by the legalization of a diploma. We at Rosobrazovanie are often asked to make a so-called apostille, that is, to legalize a diploma, but they are refused.
- The last question: maybe you still have secret black lists of universities?
- I didn’t even go on vacation last year because of them, I kept looking for these lists.
- Did you find it?
- Not.

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Rectors about Olympiads, USE and entrance exams
Viktor Sadovnichy, Rector of Moscow State University Lomonosov
The results of the Unified State Exam for admission to Moscow State University will not be counted. This is the decision of the academic council of the university. Without exams, winners and prize-winners of the fifth stage of the All-Russian Olympiad can be enrolled. They are enrolled in a specific specialty, according to the subject compliance classifier recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science. It is on our website (www.msu.ru.— "Power").
It will be easier for the winners and prize-winners of district and regional Olympiads, that is, the fourth (held in seven federal districts) and third (held in the subjects) stages of the All-Russian Olympiad, to take exams. Upon admission to Moscow State University, their victory in the Olympiad will be counted as the highest score in the exam in the relevant subject. Let me explain with an example: the one who takes third place at the Moscow City Olympiad automatically gets the highest score in this subject at the entrance exam. The remaining tests the applicant will have to pass. If a student won or became a prize-winner of two or even three Olympiads, and all of them corresponded to the exams for some faculty, they are counted as entrance. And it may happen that according to the results of the Olympiads, the young man has already entered. Two more Olympiads were equated to the third stage: "Lomonosov" and national project"Conquer Sparrow Hills". But the winners of these Olympiads have already been determined, and now we can only talk about participation in these Olympiads for next year.

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Yaroslav Kuzminov, rector State University— Higher School of Economics
A significant innovation this year is that an applicant can apply to several faculties at the same time. Moreover, it is enough to pass the exams once. This year, Moscow has joined the USE experiment, so admission to half of our faculties is regulated by slightly different rules: the faculties that were included in the experiment (economic and managerial profile) will count the Russian language exam only as the result of the USE. The only alternative for these faculties is that the results of the interdisciplinary Olympiad held at the HSE in May 2005 can be used as an exam. The winners of this Olympiad will be enrolled out of competition, its winners will be credited with the results in one or more subjects (at their choice). One more thing is connected with the results of the Olympiad: when entering the HSE, it is possible to count the results of various rounds of the All-Russian Subject Olympiads. The winners of the fourth and fifth, final rounds of subject Olympiads can enter a number of our faculties without exams. The same applies to the winners of the Moscow City and Moscow Regional Olympiads. But the winners of regional olympiads in some subjects (for example, in mathematics, economics, a foreign language, etc.), who received the highest score in the corresponding subject, may not take this subject in July, but simply participate in the competition.

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Igor Fedorov, Rector of Moscow State Technical University Bauman
The competition is held separately for each of the faculties and forms of education (budgetary or paid). That is, already when submitting documents, each applicant must immediately determine their future specialty and form of study. When applying for state-funded places, the following are counted: the results of entrance exams; the results of the interview for medalists and persons who graduated with honors from secondary vocational schools; the results of testing the winners of the competition of the all-Russian youth program "Step into the Future", the final conference of the program "Step into the Future. Moscow", the final conference of the Russian youth program "Cosmonautics"; results of the winners of the district stage of the Moscow Regional Olympiad MSTU. Bauman in mathematics and physics; USE results, corresponding to positive assessments when recalculated into the MSTU grading system. This year there is an opportunity to take entrance examinations in a mixed form. If an applicant passed, for example, the Russian language in the Unified State Examination, then with us he can only take physics and mathematics. But it is not possible to submit documents with the results of the Unified State Exam for all specialties. The paid form of education counts: the results of the relevant entrance exams; the results of paid testing conducted at MSTU. Bauman; the results listed above entrance examinations for budget education.

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Vladimir Filippov, rector Russian University Friendship between nations
50% of entrance exams are held in USE form. The list of specialties for which entrance exams are taken in the form of the Unified State Exam is annually approved by the rector. Their current list can be found on the university website (www.rudn.ru.— "Power"). But the usual form of entrance examinations for the other 50% of specialties has also been preserved.
We accept applicants both on a budgetary and commercial basis of education. For those who decide to study for money, it is enough not to receive an unsatisfactory grade upon admission, showing a minimum level of knowledge. Screening "contract" is in the learning process.
This year, without entrance exams to RUDN University, all the winners and prize-winners who applied to us will enter all specialties of the university All-Russian Olympiads. In addition, we plan to accept winners of regional Olympiads out of competition for target places - this decision was made by the RUDN University Academic Council last year. Separately, a targeted reception is carried out from the autonomies of the Russian Federation. According to its results, students from the subjects of the federation are enrolled. We had about 200 of them last year. Gold and silver medalists, as in other universities, have the right to pass one exam. If it is passed on "excellent", the applicant becomes a student.

How the competition jumps
It becomes more and more difficult to predict the competition for one or another specialty over time, which is perfectly demonstrated by the example of Moscow State University*.

faculty	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
bioengineering and bioinformatics	-	-	10,6	11,7	8,0
biological	4,5	4,6	5,4	7,0	4,6
computational mathematics and cybernetics	7,2	7,3	7,3	7,3	6,0
geographical	6,8	5,5	5,0	5,2	3,8
geological	4,9	5,0	5,3	5,1	2,3
government controlled	12,7	13,3	14,5	7,5	8,5
journalism	2,6	2,9	3,0	3,3	4,1
foreign languages	13,1	12,3	17,5	8,3	16,6
Institute of Asian and African countries	4,2	4,0	4,1	3,7	5,1
historical	5,2	4,6	4,1	4,6	4,8
mechanical and mathematical	7,4	6,9	9,8	9,3	8,0
world politics	-	-	-	7,7	26,0
materials science	14,4	11,6	13,5	11,0	2,8
soil science	6,4	7,7	4,9	5,0	2,3
psychology	7,9	5,1	4,8	4,6	4,8
sociological	3,7	2,8	3,1	3,8	9,5
physical	6,4	5,8	6,0	5,8	3,4
philological	4,4	3,5	4,1	4,5	6,0
philosophical	2,9	3,5	3,7	4,2	5,3
fundamental medicine	5,6	6,3	6,1	10,9	9,03
chemical	3,2	3,6	3,3	4,2	2,6
economic	5,2	5,4	7,0	6,5	6,8
legal	4,9	4,2	4,6	3,1	3,8

*Budgetary form of education, one person per place.