Every year Sechenov University attracts thousands of talented international students and offers them an opportunity to get a highquality education in Russian or English pursuing Specialist’s, residency, Bachelor’s, Master’s programs and test their acquired skills at the
leading clinics at the university and in Russia as well as at the state-of-the-art simulation center.
Education
Educational programs taught in Russian and English
The higher education programs offered by Sechenov University are the gold standard of medical education in the Russian Federation and are ranked among the Top 300 medical programs in the world. The modern clinical campus in Russia offers each student an
opportunity to develop a unique set of competencies starting from the first year of study.
The university graduates are part of the professional elite of global healthcare.
Training of engineers and crossfunctional specialists in the following fields:
- Nanomaterials
- Mechanics and Mathematical Modeling
- Information and Information Technologies
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Medical Engineering
Advantages
- Interdisciplinary biomedical and medical education
- Practice-oriented curricula
- A wide range of research topics for scientific projects
- Project activity starting from the first year of study
- Competencies at the nexus of specialties and sciences: bioengineering, research, technological and entrepreneurial competencies
- Joint international projects
- Academic mobility programs
- Student Olympiads in emergency medicine, oncology, epidemiology, and others
Infrastructure
Sechenov University is the center for academic, scientific and resource excellence in the Russian healthcare system with the incorporated sports camp and infrastructure for study, practical training and cutting-edge research:
- Modern student dormitories with Wi-Fi
- The central scientific medical library
- The Center for Research Career, the clinical center, the congress center
- The university’s Medicine History Museum, a botanical garden, a vivarium
- The Center for Clinical Trials of Drugs
- The Center for Continuing Medical Education with a virtual training clinic
- The Burevestnik Sports Center with an ice rink, the Zvenigorod health center, the Phoenix student sports club, the Sechenovets sports and health camp
Internship and employment
Students can participate in the Sechenov Tech accelerator and create innovative biomedtech products, participate in biotechnology workshops, find prospective employers at job fairs.
- The Center for Graduate Employment Assistance
- Job fair
- The Center for Research Career and the case study area of Sechenov University
- SYSE “Young Researcher and Entrepreneur at Sechenov University”
- Russia’s only network accelerator Sechenov Tech for the university’s biomedtech startups aimed at supporting student startups from expert evaluation of a project to production of pilot prototypes
- Entrepreneurship case competitions
Student life
Sechenov University creates opportunities for international students to lead a fulfilling student life:
- The Buddy volunteering program aimed at supporting first-year students: the international medical environment helps them adapt to life in Moscow
- 35 compatriot associations
- The FIRST MED MEDIA student media center
- Festival “Spring at Pirogovskaya”
- Sechenov University Ball
- Beauty and Talent Contest “Miss Sechenov University”
- The NewArt Cultural Center holding the most important university events
- Youth grant competitions
- Food Festival for International Students Unity Food Fest
- Student Universiades, Spartakiads, sports competitions and festivals
- Phygital academy for the development of phygital sports: at the nexus of physical and digital activities
