Number of higher education students in Russia 2010-2022

Over 4.1 million students were enrolled in Russian higher education institutions in 2022. The number of students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs in the country has decreased since 2010, when it exceeded seven million.

Leading Russian universities

In 2023, the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) ranked first in the list of top universities in Russia, according to the QS World University Rankings, which placed it 75th worldwide. The Bauman Moscow State Technical University ranked first by faculty-to-student ratio in the country. The third place in the domestic ranking was occupied by the Novosibirsk State University (NSU), an educational and scientific center of Siberia. The university ranked 260th in the world and received high scores for its faculty-student and international student ratios.

Job search after the university in Russia

In 2022, roughly seven in ten Russians who graduated from the university in the three previous years were employed in a field related to their studies. Furthermore, approximately one half of graduates from top 30 universities in Russia were willing to move abroad for better job opportunities in 2020. Around 40 percent of Russian Generation Z representatives felt anxious or stressed thinking about their job and career prospects.