TOMSK, Sep 3 – RIA Tomsk. Almost 850 foreign students entered Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in 2021, which is 40 more than a year earlier; the majority of foreigners are still CIS nationals, the university's press service reported on Friday.
Earlier it was reported that in 2021/2022 the number of state-funded places at TPU has been increased by 865 to 3,671, including 666 places for full-time students. During the admission campaign, applications from 6,808 applicants were accepted. The average score for the USE dropped slightly to 74.01, which university officials attribute to a drop in the number of applicants taking physics tests.
"We have seen a slight increase in the number of international students, and we have been working on it. The university has made international education one of its basic priorities for quite some time. We work by target method, including with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Vietnam, and Egypt", – TPU Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Mikhail Solovyov is quoted.
It is noted that as of September 2, 846 foreigners have been enrolled in TPU as full-time students studying at bachelor's, specialist's, master's and postgraduate programs. 616 of them are CIS nationals and 230 come from outside the CIS. In 2020, the university enrolled 806 foreign nationals (546 from the CIS and 260 from non-CIS countries).
It is added that students from Afghanistan, Vietnam, Haiti, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Nigeria, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Kenya, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bolivia, Cameroon, Mongolia, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia will study at TPU in the academic year 2021/2022.