Admission

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Admissions Committee Website

1724

the year the University was founded

~ 25 000

students

530+

degree programmes

750+

non-degree programmes

3 700

academic staff

22

resource centres

500+

online courses

1 650+

agreements to organise practical training and cooperation agreements

600+

university-partners from over 80 countries worldwide

Admissions Procedure

Student Interviews

#### Preparatory Course student Sheusia on going from ‘completely lost’ to B1 in Russian in one semester

24 February 2026 Student Reviews

#### SPbU Preparatory Course student Cui Xinyu: ‘I want to live where my favourite writers lived’

21 January 2026 Student Reviews

#### A mathematical dream takes flight: from Bolivia to St. Petersburg State University

15 December 2025 Student Reviews

#### A student at St. Petersburg State University on mobility programmes: ‘You will not just see a new world — you will discover it in yourself’

1 September 2025 Student Reviews

#### SPbU student Maksim Kliushin: ‘Russian Academy of Sciences Medal is the recognition of our results by the highest-level scientific community’

21 August 2025 Student Reviews

#### St. Petersburg State University master’s student wins Contest for Young Foreign-Affairs Journalists

19 June 2025 Student Reviews

#### Prep year grind: how an Iranian student earned her spot in St. Petersburg State University

12 May 2025 Student Reviews

#### St. Petersburg State University student Grigorii Korolev on helping the front and using video games in patriotic education of youth

11 May 2025 Student Reviews

#### Italian student Michelangelo Cerracchio: 'I am here to learn the Russian way of thinking'

24 April 2025 Student Reviews

#### South African SPbU Preparatory Course student: 'I’d rather work with hardware, it’s harder to automate'

28 March 2025 Student Reviews

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