History of Russian Higher Education
Founding of Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, the first university in Russia.
Founding of Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the forerunner of the current Russian Academy of Sciences.
Founding of Moscow State University (since 1940, M. Lomonosov MSU).
First higher courses for women are opened.
56 universities operating in Russia.
Distinguished Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov, a graduate of the Petersburg University (now SPbGU), is the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel prize for research on the physiology of digestion.
4 500 people teach in higher education in Russia, 127 400 people study at universities across the country.
150 universities in Russia.
Russia is the first country in the world to make higher education free. A decree is passed which allows workers to be admitted to university from the age of 16. This right is extended to all regardless of citizenship, sex, or possession of a school leaver’s certificate.
Dozens of new universities are created. They are mainly established in the major cities of the Soviet Republic.
The first polytechnic institutes are founded.
During reform of higher education, universities are subordinated to governmental agencies. They create industrial institutes based in the faculties of major universities. In the 1930s, over 40 teaching, medical, economic and other institutes are founded. Academic departments were assigned to research institutes. The first evening and correspondence departments and institutes are opened.
A fund of thesis papers is created.
In the last years of the Second World War, 60 new universities are opened.
Consolidation of universities takes place as part of efforts to improve the quality of education. Universities and departments for education specialists in the field of radioelectronics and electronic and computer engineering, automatics, biological physics, and biochemistry are opened.
494 state universities operate in the USSR.
180 000 international students at educational institutions in Russia.
Russia signs the Bologna Declaration becoming part of the single European higher education system.
Bachelor’s, Specialty and Master’s Programmes are introduced in Russia.
Graduates of MIPT Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of graphene. Russia has given the world a total of 42 Nobel Prize winners.
Twenty-one Russian universities appear in QS overall rankings.
Academic excellence Project 5-100 is launched to boost the leading domestic universities competitiveness in the global education market.
A new Russian law extends citizens’ rights in education and sets requirements for education programmes and standards to meet world education norms.
Thirteen Russian universities listed in Times Higher Education world university rankings.
Russia launches priority project «The Development of the Export Potential of the Russian Education System».
24 universities in QS overall rankings.
28 universities take more than 140 positions in 38 QS rankings by subject and faculty.
27 universities among the world’s best in THE rankings.
Russia has 896 universities.
Twenty two are among the best in QS rankings.
THE overall university rankings tables include 24 Russian universities.
Three Russian universities top THE ranking of the best universities in Eurasia.
27 universities listed in QS World University Rankings.
17 universities earned places in ARWU Ranking by Subject Area.
358 universities placed in Webometrics 2019.
31 universities included in QS Rankings by Subject.
35 universities entered THE Emerging Economies University Rankings.
