TOMSK, Sep 2 – RIA Tomsk. Altai State University (ASU) during the admission campaign 2021/2022, which was held in one wave, competed not with universities in the region but with the region's neighbours Tomsk and Novosibirsk as well as Moscow and St Petersburg, where applicants eventually applied for the "final" consent to study, ASU Rector Sergey Bocharov told.
Earlier it was reported that all universities of the Russian Federation had increased the number of state-funded places for 2021/2022, with Tomsk universities increasing the number of places by 24.3% (by almost 4,000). The admission campaign for universities of the Russian Federation began on June 20 and ended on August 31. For the first time, admission was in one wave, during which applicants had to make a final decision about their place of study.
"Until the very end of the admission campaign, it was not clear where one would leave consent. We faced stiff competition, and not from within the region, but from Tomsk, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. It came to the point that an applicant in the range of 180-200 points said: "I take away my admission consent, because I'm going to Tomsk", – Rector of Altai State University Bocharov said on Thursday at a press conference on the results of the admission campaign.
"The number of applications to TPU was the same as last year (6,808), but there was a very strong increase in bachelor's and specialist's degree programs – almost 2,000 more. The average USE score dropped slightly to 74.01. This is to be expected, one of the problems – a challenge for all technical universities – is physics, the number of students taking this subject is decreasing, this is a serious problem", – said the vice-rector.