Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University

About Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University

Kazan Federal University (KFU), officially Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, is a federal state autonomous university in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan. It is also called Kazan University. It was founded on 5 November 1804 as Imperial Kazan University by a charter signed by Emperor Alexander I. The federal university was created by a presidential decree of 21 October 2009, and in 2011 and 2012 several other universities in the region joined it. The founder is the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The main address is 18 Kremlyovskaya Street, Kazan. The university has four branches: in Naberezhnye Chelny, Yelabuga, Cairo (Egypt) and Jizzakh (Uzbekistan).

Institutes and research

KFU is organised into institutes. They include geology and petroleum technologies, fundamental medicine and biology, ecology and biotechnology, chemistry (the Butlerov Institute), information technology, artificial intelligence and robotics, computational mathematics, mathematics and mechanics (the Lobachevsky Institute), management, economics and finance, international relations, philology, psychology and education, social and philosophical sciences, and design. There is also a law faculty and a Higher School of Public Administration. The university has a scientific library with more than five million storage units and a university clinic with 836 beds.

Students

According to the university, over 52,000 students are enrolled in all types of programmes, including about 11,500 international students from 101 countries.

For international applicants

KFU has a Preparatory School for International Students. The university says that it has taught Russian to foreign citizens before their degree studies since 1979. The English site lists English-taught programmes, among them dentistry (the first two courses in English, the next three in Russian), software engineering and geology. Undergraduate applicants pass internal entrance exams, and each applicant can take them only once. Exams are taken online with a webcam and microphone, but the exams for General Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy are held offline in Kazan. There is a separate competition for contract applicants from visa countries and a general competition for visa-free countries. Applicants apply through a personal account on the university portal.

Housing

According to the university's official data, KFU has 31 dormitories with 12,441 places. The Universiade Village dormitory complex is described as a student campus for 13,000 people. Dormitory places are provided subject to availability. For Preparatory School students, the university describes requesting a place in the personal account.