Founded in 1724 by Peter the Great, Saint Petersburg University was to become the first institution of higher education in Russia. SPbU is a leading Russian university with teaching and research excellence ranked among the world’s top universities. We are open to cooperation and enjoy strong ties with the international research and academic community. SPbU scientists work in almost all fields of knowledge, providing expertise and consultation in close collaboration with Russian and international partners. Many outstanding scholars have been a part of the SPbU community, including nine Nobel Prize winners: the physiologist Ivan Pavlov, biologist Ilya Mechnikov, physicist and chemist Nikolay Semyonov, physicists Lev Landau and Aleksandr Prokhorov, philosopher and economist Wassily Leontief as well as mathematician and economist Leonid Kantorovich.

Among University alumni are the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, Prime-Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovskiy, President of the Russian Academy of Education Liudmila Verbitskaya, mathematicians Grigoriy Perelman and Sergey Smirnov as well as many others.

St Petersburg University Today

• 30,000 students
• 6000 academic staff
• 398 main educational programmes
• 1,200 internship contracts and partnership agreements
• Over 450 partner universities
• 9 Nobel Prize winners
• 26 resource centres of the University Research Park
• 6.9 mln. books at the SPbU Research Library named after Maksim Gorky
• Over 12,000 places in the University halls of residence

SPbU in the World Rankings

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• Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings
• Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings
• Academic Ranking of World Universities
• Ranking Web of Universities, Ranking Web of Repositories — Webometrics
• Financial Times European Business School Ranking
• Financial Times Masters in Management European Rankings
• Nature Index

Benefits of Studying at SPbU

• Active engagement with employers
• Interdisciplinary educational programmes
• Modern educational technologies
• Scholarships for talented students
• Unrivalled Research Park
• World-renowned academic staff
• SPbU own diplomas
• SPbU own academic degrees of Candidate of Sciences and Doctor of Sciences
• International links

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject ( a federal city ) of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. St. Petersburg recently celebrated its 300th anniversary.

The city has an area of 606 sq. km., but if you include the immediate suburbs on the lowlands along the Neva and the Gulf of Finland, it is 1439 sq. km. The city measures 44 km from north to south and 25 km from east to west.

St. Petersburg developed according to a strict, well thought-out plan, which had been finalized by 1712. The wide Neva and all the numerous other rivers and canals were incorporated into the city design and created its scale. 1865 saw the division of the city into 12 administrative sections. It is now divided into 20 administrative districts. According to the latest census, taken in 2000, 4,695,000 people currently live in St. Petersburg.

The St. Petersburg climate is influenced by the huge expanses of the Atlantic Ocean and its immediate proximity to the Gulf of Finland; water also accounts for 10% of the city area -- a great number of rivers, lakes and marshes.

The region varies from a marine to a continental climate, mild and humid, with a significant amount of cloudy weather, frequent mists and substantial rainfall. In summer the city enjoys periods of hot, dry weather when the temperature can reach 35 degrees C. The average temperature in winter is -- 7.8 degrees C.

The largest of the public higher education institutions is Saint Petersburg State University, enrolling approximately 32,000 undergraduate students; and the largest non-governmental higher education institutions is the Institute of International Economic Relations, Economics and Law. Other famous universities are Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University, Herzen University and Saint Petersburg Military engineering-technical university. However, the public universities are all federal property and do not belong to the city.

St. Petersburg is built on 42 islands at the Neva delta where the river flows into the Gulf of Finland. It is one of the worlds leading cities in terms of its number of rivers, islands and bridges. St. Petersburg is sometimes called a museum of bridges - it has over 300 of them.

69 rivers and other waterways flow through the city and its immediate environs; within the city limits there are 40 rivers, tributaries, canals and other waterways with a total length of 217.5 km. The principal ones are the Great and Lesser Neva, the Great, Medium and Lesser Nevka, the Fontanka, the Karpovka, the Okhta, the Zhdanovka, the Moika, Chernaya Rechka and the Obvodnyy Canal.

A great deal in St. Petersburg artistic decoration is reminiscent of the city naval glory, which is inextricably linked with the expanses of the Baltic Sea. Peter I did all he could to ensure that the sails of Russian ships were seen along the Baltic coast. Russia became a formidable naval power, confirming its superiority with glorious victories and round-the-world voyages.

Bachelor Degree Programmes

Admissions are open to 75 SPbU bachelor degree programmes in the 2018/2019academic year.

To study at the rest of the bachelor degree programmes, you must be proficient in Russian.

If you want to enroll on a bachelor degree programme taught in Russian, we highly recommend you to complete training at the "Russian as a Foreign Language" additional educational programme of the SPbU Russian Language and Culture Institute. 

The complete list of bachelor degree programmes for the 2018/2019 academic year:

Accommodation

Sport

There are many sports leagues at SPbU, so each student can either engage in his or her favourite sport or choose a new one: football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, chess, rugby, mountaineering, mountain skiing, orienteering, swimming, skiing, mountain biking, aerobics, boxing, wrestling and rowing. Student teams participate in international competitions and often win them.

Social Activities

Socially minded students join different organisations: SPbU Students’ Trade Union, the Center for Student Initiatives, the Career Center, the International Students’ Club, various creative teams and scientific societies. Students play intellectual games, publish newspapers and magazines, become volunteers and entrepreneurs.

Creative Opportunities

There is a great number of teams for creative students at SPbU. Some of them have already achieved national and even international recognition. These include a student choir, a youth chamber orchestra, a drama studio, a vocal studio and a Russian folk instruments orchestra.

Events and Festivals

Sports events, parties, concerts, festivals, performances, balls and much more are an integral part of student life. The following events are the most popular among students: the KVN student championship, the Peterhof Olympic sports festival, the fancy-dress jazz party, and the International Festival aimed at blurring distinctions and establishing friendly relations between students from different countries.

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