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Source: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University –
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SPbPU Rector Andrey Rudskoy took part in a press conference at TASS dedicated to summing up the results of the 2025 admissions campaign. The press conference was also attended by MGIMO Rector Anatoly Torkunov, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Rector Dmitry Livanov, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Rector Mikhail Gordin, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics Acting Rector Alexey Nikulin, ITMO National Research University Rector Vladimir Vasiliev, and Yeltsin Ural Federal University Acting Rector Ilya Obabkov.
Andrey Rudskoy joined the press conference at TASS online. He said that this year, Polytechnic University received 6,595 budget places — the most in the Northwestern Federal District. More than 145 thousand applications were submitted for the budget for bachelor's and specialist's degrees. As in the previous year, applicants sent 99% of documents through the State Services portal, including for master's and postgraduate studies.
The most popular areas of study this year were nuclear power engineering and thermal physics – 59 applications per place, thermal power engineering and thermal engineering – 44 applications, automation of technological processes and production – 36 applications. Demand for IT specialties remains at the level of 60 applications. In general, the competition for the budget was 33 applications per place.
252 students were enrolled under a separate quota for participants and children of participants of the SVO – 1.7 times more than last year. In this indicator, Polytechnic University ranks fifth among Russian universities.
The number of winners and prize winners of Olympiads among Polytechnic University applicants has increased by one and a half times this year. Probably, the fact that the university revised its support measures for talented students played a role in this.
In his speech, Andrey Rudskoy touched upon the specifics of targeted admission: Unfortunately, as in the previous year, the customers of targeted training posted their proposals on the portal “Work in Russia”, but did not participate in the approval of candidates, or even, perhaps, meetings with them. This affected the number of students accepted. By the way, most of them responded to the proposals of those industrial partners who worked with applicants – Rosatom and the Petersburg Tractor Plant.
The average USE score for the general competition has increased this year and is 84.2. The passing score for all areas of training has exceeded 200. Andrey Rudskoy noted an increase in the passing score for engineering areas such as technosphere safety, technical physics, metallurgy, mechatronics and robotics.
A major role was played by the “Petrovskaya Wave” system, introduced for the first time in the Polytechnic’s admissions campaign, which guarantees admission to applicants who have achieved the passing score set by the admissions committee.
Speaking about the admission campaign for foreign students, the rector of SPbPU specified that more than 2,000 applications for training in the main programs and another 650 for the preparatory faculty were received. Of these, 430 applications from foreign citizens were selected under the quota of the Government of the Russian Federation, the rest will study under a contract. Among the foreign applicants, there are 240 winners of the Open Doors Olympiad. It is planned to enroll about 1,600 foreign students from 70 countries in the first year.
"The work of the Polytechnic representative office in Shanghai and our two joint institutes with Xi'an Technological University and Jiangsu Normal University help attract applicants from China," says Andrey Rudskoy. "And cooperation with Slavic universities in Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and coordination of the work of the Russian-African Network University consortium allow us to cover these countries as well. Therefore, the Polytechnic expects to maintain the share of foreign students at 18%, which is equal to five thousand people."
Admission to fee-based education continues until August 15, with 47,000 applications already received (13,000 more than a year ago). At the same time, as Andrey Rudskoy said, the Polytechnic University has reduced admission to fee-based education in the humanities and closed distance learning, meaning that the increase is due to engineering areas of training.
Admission to the Master's program also continues until August 11; 25 thousand applications have now been submitted by 5 thousand applicants.
And on September 1, the Polytechnic expects an increase of 12,000 students.
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