Visa&Migration

For legal residence in Russia, international applicants or students must fill out a migration card and register at their place of stay. Foreign citizens can get the migration registration only at their place of actual residence.

Students from visa countries should prefer to apply for a short-term student visa. You can have some other non-student visa only while taking entrance exams, but you will have to leave Russia and reenter with a student visa to be enrolled.

The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t had any impact on the inflow of international students to top Russian universities in 2020, as stated on the website of the Association of Global Universities.