TOMSK, Aug 5 – RIA Tomsk. Citizens of Mozambique, Bolivia and Rwanda for the first time entered Tomsk universities, the press service of the regional administration reported on Friday.
Earlier it was reported that at the moment applications to Tomsk universities were submitted by 4,3 thousand foreigners. The vast majority of them – are citizens of the neighboring countries. Besides, from 41 foreign countries there arrived 325 entrants. Transfer of foreigners at universities of Tomsk goes according to the special schedule and hasn't come to the end yet.
"This year young people from such exotic countries as Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Mozambique, Rwanda went to the Tomsk universities", – is said in the message. The exact quantity arrived and also to what universities they come, isn't specified.
According to the regional administration, leaders in number of the students who arrived this year from foreign countries – are Tomsk Polytechnic University (97 people), Tomsk State University (84 entrants) and Tomsk State University of Architecture and Building (76 foreigners).As the deputy governor on scientific educational complex and innovative policy Mikhail Sonkin reported on Friday on a round table in the RIA Tomsk media center, the last academic year representatives of Tomsk universities worked in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, India, China, Vietnam, Laos, Great Britain, Indonesia.
In his opinion, these explained surge in interest from entrants of these countries students.
Earlier it was reported that citizens of foreign countries go to the Tomsk universities to study electrical equipment, oil and gas business, languages, natural sciences, mechanical engineering, philosophy, architecture and more.