Kuban State Agrarian University

KubSAU is one of the acknowledged leaders in Russian agricultural education. It is the largest center for science, education and innovation in the Southern Federal District and the winner of Russia’s most large-scale state academic leadership program “Priority 2030.”

KubSAU has a long-standing tradition of international cooperation in education. Since 1960, the university has trained more than 10,000 international graduates who are highly qualified specialists in animal breeding, crop farming, veterinary medicine, ecology, and processing technologies. Today, the university is the international education center, with 800 international students from more than 50 countries.

• Top 3 Russian agrarian universities according to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation
• The largest university in the South of Russia with an area of 168 ha

Admission

Admission places

State-funded places

General competition (an interview testing Russian language proficiency and two exams)

Fee-paying places

• General competition for fee-paying places (an interview testing Russian language proficiency and two exams)
• Places allocated for foreign citizens (an interview testing Russian language proficiency and one exam)

The Russian Government scholarship (quota)

1. Register at education-in-russia.com
2. Submit your application
3. Pass the selection stage at the Rossotrudnichestvo representative office in your country (Russian House)
4. Get a study referral from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
5. Congratulations! You’re a KubSAU student now!

5 steps to admission

1. Choose a study program

2. Submit your documents online (to pk2025@kubsau.ru):

• Application
• Passport and its notarized translation into Russian
• School leaving certificate/degree certificate and its notarized translation into Russian*
• 3х4 cm photo

 3. Pass entrance exams online

4. Find yourself in the enrollment order

5. Get an invitation from the university, obtain a student visa to study in the Russian Federation, and inform us of the date of your arrival in the Russian Federation

*legalized in accordance with the procedure established by the country’s legislation or apostilled + certificate (if necessary)

Reminder for international applicants

All about admission of foreign citizens to KubSAU

Admission Office

+7 861 221-58-18
pk2025@kubsau.ru
Telegram – @priemkubsau
kubsau.ru/entrant/

Consultation Center for International Applicants

+7 861 221-57-76
inter_kubsau@mail.ru

Why KubSAU?

1. A wide range of faculties for agrobiology, engineering, and humanities:

Agrobiology faculties:

• Agronomy and Ecology
• Agrochemistry and Plant Protection
• Veterinary Medicine
• Zootechnics
• Food Production and Biotechnologies
• Horticulture and Viticulture

Engineering faculties:

• Architecture and Civil Engineering
• Hydrotechnical Melioration
• Mechanization
• Land Management
• Applied Informatics
• Energetics

Humanities faculties:

• Management
• Accounting and Finance
• Finance and Credit
• Economics
• Institute for Digital Economy and Innovation
• Law

2. High academic degree holders rate

• 1,020 academic staff members
• 583 Candidates of Sciences
• 386 Associate Professors of the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles (SCADT) and 102 Professors of SCADT
• 197 Doctors of Sciences
• 12 Academicians and Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences

3. Annual practical training at the educational and experimental farms "Kuban" and "Krasnodarskoe" and specialized organizations

4. State-of-the-art facilities and resources

5. Well-equipped student campus:

• 20 five-story comfortable dormitories in one place
• Free Internet in the entire territory of the university
• Shower rooms, kitchens, laundry rooms with washing machines in every dormitory
• The affiliate bank, the post office, the tailor shop, and the shoe repair shop – everything is within walking distance
• The student outpatient clinic

6. The opportunity to fulfill oneself not only in education but also in creativity and sports

Creativity

• Singing school
• Dance ensembles
• Photography school
• Journalism center
• Decorative and applied art school

Sports

• Swimming pool
• UEFA-standard football pitch
• 21 sports clubs
• 6 halls for different sports
• Exercise machines and treadmills

7. Annual subsidized trip vouchers for the Krinitsa sports and health camp

Preparatory Department for Foreign Citizens

At the Preparatory Department, prospective students study Russian and prepare for entrance exams in various fields of study. Highly qualified teachers teach Russian using an effective methodology that allows international students to adapt to an unfamiliar language environment within a short period of time.

Study areas: Medicine and Biology, Engineering and Technology, Natural Sciences, Economics

Tuition fees

1 year – 150,000 RUB ≈ 1.783 $

1.5 years – 195,000 RUB ≈ 2.317$

Telegram – @podfakkubsau
podfak.kubsau@yandex.ru

Medine Durdyeva, the second-year student at the Faculty of Food Production and Biotechnologies (Turkmenistan)

The winner of the competition “The Best International Student of Russian Agrarian Universities” in the category “Socially Active Person of the Year” as part of the International Youth Forum for Active Students “#AgroGrad.”

Ivwananji Navila, the fourth-year student at the Faculty of Agronomy and Ecology (Zambia) and Emmanuel Buabeng, the first-year PhD student (Ghana)

The participants of the plenary meeting with Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin as part of the Russian Agro-Industrial Exhibition “Golden Autumn 2023.”

Grigory Pluzhnikov, the first-year student at the Faculty of Zootechnics (Serbia)

He took part in the public meeting of the Academic Council of KubSAU with Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Oksana Lut in September 2024.

Timothy Zulu, the first-year student at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Zambia)

The participant of the Trainees project from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation and the Innopraktika Company.