About Admission to the Saint-Petersburg State University (12)

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Question: i want to study physics at this university, so i would like to know the tuition fees for international student? if there is available time for us to study part time? what about working while i study? accommodation in the university?

The answer of Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Ekaterina Babelyuk:  Thank you for your interest in our University.

Please find the answers to your questions below:

The tuition fees for foreign students for the bachelor programs in the field of Physics for the academic year 2011 – 2012 were 172 000 rub. For the academic year 2012 – 2013 it could vary.

You can find the costs here.

An exact data on the fees for the academic year 2012 – 2013 will be published at SPbU official web-site (at Admissions Committee’s page www.abiturient.spbu.ru) before June 1, 2012

To be enrolled on the fee-paying (contractual) basis you will have to submit documents needed for your participation in the competition within a period specified by the 2012 Regulations for Admission of Foreign Applicants to Main Programmes of Higher Professional Education at Saint-Petersburg State University, pass admissions tests and be selected on a competitive basis to be enrolled onto the chosen programme. Tuition fees will be specified by a respective SPbU local act on or prior to June 1, 2012.

You can find the full list of programmes onto which applicants will be admitted in 2012 at SPbU official website (see the Admissions Committee’s page). The list and modes of admissions tests as well as the 2012 Regulations for Admission of Foreign Applicants to Main Programmes of Higher Professional Education at Saint Petersburg State University can also be found on this page.

Please note, that the language of instruction in the selected field of study (Physics) at SPbU is Russian. The instruction in the selected area is held only in a full-time basis.

According to Russian laws if you are a foreigner, studying in higher education institution, you cannot work while studying without getting special type of entry visa. In case a foreign citizen enter Russia for education at SPbU the purpose of the visit to the Russian Federation in an entry visa will look like ‘studying at SPbU’. It doesn’t permit work.

SPBU offers / provides its students a dormitory. All non-resident and foreign applicants are accommodated in the halls of residence for the period of application and admissions tests. The cost of accommodation will be specified by respective orders in 2012.

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