3,000+
international students from 87 countries
19
English-taught programs
250
Bachelor's, Specialist's, Master's and PhD programs
Southern Federal University is the largest research and education center in the south of Russia. It combines classical university traditions with modern innovative infrastructure and trains highly qualified specialists in such areas as physics and mathematics and natural sciences, engineering sciences, humanities and social and economic sciences, pedagogy, sports, architecture, and art.
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Tuition fees per year
Bachelor's and Specialist's programs 150,000 – 354,000 RUB
Master's programs 125,000 – 296,000 RUB
PhD programs 137,000 – 170,000 RUB
Why SFedU?
- The right to independently award academic degrees
- Advanced Engineering School “Cyber Platforms Engineering”
- The Knowledge-Intensive Instrumentation Center, the Engineering Center for Instrumentation, Radio and Microelectronics, state-of-the-art breakthrough laboratories
- The opportunity to spend a semester at one of around 70 international partner universities as part of the academic exchange program
- Joint educational programs with universities in China, Egypt, Mexico, Armenia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
- Independent recognition of foreign education
Admission
- 500 state-funded places for foreign citizens
- Application dates: June 20 - July 15, 2025
State-funded places
Fee-paying places (on a contract basis)
- Choose a study program (in Russian or English)
- Take a practice test
- Submit your documents online in the Applicant's Personal Account at admissions.sfedu.ru
- Тake entrance exams for a Bachelor’s program online at exams.sfedu.ru
- Participate in the portfolio competition for a Master's program at master.sfedu.ru
- Conclude a study contract
- Contact us at migration@sfedu.ru to get an invitation
Winners of international Olympiads
Admission Office
All information about documents required for admission
+7 (863) 218-40-24
welcome@sfedu.ru
SFedU conducts world-class research in information technologies, smart materials, nanotechnologies, medicine of the future, robotics
Preparatory Department
The department prepares foreign citizens for professional educational programs in Russian.
Study areas
- Humanities
- Economics
- Natural Sciences
- Engineering and Technology
- Medicine and Biology
Duration
- 8-10 months (the program workload is 2,376 hours)
- 14-16 months (the program workload is 2,736 hours)
Tuition fee 135,000 RUB
Besides studying general subjects, students can additionally attend linguocultural studies lectures on traditions, customs and history of Russia, master classes and special courses.
+7 863 219-97-55
inter@sfedu.ru
www.podfak.sfedu.ru
Popular English-taught study programs among international students
Bachelor's programs
- Fundamental Informatics and Information Technologies
- Trading
- Philology
Master's programs
- Applied Mathematics and Informatics
- Physics
- Architecture
- Information Security
- Economics
- Management
- Tourism
- Pedagogical Education
- Philology
- International Relations
- Cultural Studies
Internships and work placements
Continuing professional education and research internships at the facilities of the university and partner employers
SFedU International Student Support Center
- Migration support
- Social and psychological adaptation of international students
Missak Kirilus, Egypt
I like it that SFedU has highly qualified teaching staff for humanities, especially at the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language. Our teachers motivate us not only to study the Russian language and culture actively but also to participate in conferences and interdisciplinary research at different levels. The university actively encourages young people to study foreign languages, and international students themselves try to attend national events and festivals of all peoples of Russia and the world more often. SFedU actively develops international relations so you can feel a multicultural atmosphere here.
Intellectual leisure
- Theater (leisure projects)
- Literature (education, leisure projects)
- Painting (education)
- Music
System of interest groups and discussion clubs
- The Night of the Ad Eaters
- Philosophy night
- Lectures on literature
- Public Faculty of Chemistry
- AntiClass
- Thinking club, movie clubs, etc.
SFedU students can use:
- E-library
- Engineering centers
- Olympic-size swimming pool
- Creative projects
- Sports clubs
Infrastructure
Most SFedU faculties and institutes are located in the city of Rostov-on-Don – a beautiful city with the richest heritage, the largest industrial and cultural center on the banks of the picturesque Don River.
SFedU engineering faculties are located in the city of Taganrog, which is situated on the shore of the Taganrog Bay of the Azov Sea.
Campus
SFedU offers its students comfortable apartment-type dormitories in Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog. There are playgrounds, a swimming pool, a library, reading rooms, and student cafés on the campus.
SFedU campus is a guarded facility with security cameras and staff all around.
13.03.2025