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.
© РИА Томск. Алена ПалеховаRector of Altai State University Sergey Bocharov
Earlier it was reported that this year
Tomsk State University is the leader in the number of state-funded
places among Tomsk universities (3.8 thousand places). According to the
Head of the TSU New Recruitment Department Evgeny Pavlov, who attended
the press conference, this year TSU has received 10,276 applications
(22% more than in 2020). The number of olympiad students has also
increased (from 109 in 2020 to 155 this year), with an average USE score
of 81.
© РИА Томск. Алена ПалеховаPress conference on the results of the admission campaign in Siberian universities. Head of the TSU New Recruitment Department Evgeny Pavlov
According to TPU Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs
Mikhail Solovyov, the state-funded admission targets for Tomsk
Polytechnic University have also been increased this year (by 865 people
to 3,671), including a 666 state-funded increase in the number of
full-time students.
"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.
© РИА Томск. Алена ПалеховаPress conference on the results of the admission campaign in Siberian universities. TPU Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Mikhail Solovyov.