The Hindu : Exhibition on Russian universities

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Saturday, Jun 07, 2003

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Exhibition on Russian universities

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI June 6. Russian universities are back in city to market their courses. Their slogan is: a professional course in the Russian Federation not only provides world class and internationally recognised degrees, but also cost-competitive education, less expensive than a course in the United States or the United Kingdom.

The Chief Specialist in the Department of Cultural, Educational and Scientific-Technical programs in the Russian Centre for International Scientific and Cultural Cooperation, Kolakovskaya Tatiana Anatolivna, says Russia's world class and affordable education had emerged a right alternative for prospective international students.

Russia's leading universities now have over 20,000 international students, including a large number of Indians pursuing medicine, engineering and technology education.

Study Abroad Education Consultants, in association with the Russian Cultural Centre, is organising an exhibition on Russian Universities in India. In Chennai, the exhibition would be held at the Russian Cultural Centre, Alwarpet, on June 7 and 8 (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Counselling and spot admission would also be held for aspiring students to enable them to get admission to recognised medical/engineering universities in Russia.

The MBBS course in Russia is available in many leading universities in English (six years) and Russian medium (seven-year course), and international students should undergo a one-year of preparatory course in which Russian language would be taught.

In engineering faculty, some branches of study such as Mechanical, Chemical and Computer Sciences engineering were available in English medium. All other specialities were in Russian and so most foreign studies had to undergo preparatory Russian course.

The exhibition would feature the Kursk State Medical Univesity (founded 1935), the Kursk State Technical University, the Moscow Aviation Institute, the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, the Novgograd State University and the St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. The Director of International Education, Tomsk Polytechnical University, the oldest of its kind in the Russian Federation, Petrovskaya Tatiana Semenova, said "our engineers have changed the world. It had ties with institutions in the west and we are also keen on having similar ties with Indian universities."

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