Novosibirsk State Medical University

About Novosibirsk State Medical University

Novosibirsk State Medical University, abbreviated NSMU (in Russian, NGMU), is a state medical university in Novosibirsk. It was created on 17 August 1935 as a medical institute. It received the status of a medical academy in 1999 and became a university in 2005. The founder is the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. The address is 52 Krasny Prospekt, Novosibirsk. According to the university, more than 50,000 doctors have been trained here. It is a different institution from Novosibirsk State University (NSU).

Institutes and research

Students are trained at the faculties of General Medicine, Pediatrics, Dentistry and Pharmacy, and at the Faculty of Social Work and Clinical Psychology. The university teaches higher education and secondary vocational programmes, and also offers advanced training and professional retraining. It describes itself as a "large, dynamically developing, innovative educational, scientific and medical complex".

Students

According to the university, more than 600 foreign citizens study at NSMU. They come from CIS and EAEU countries and from far abroad, including Laos, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Egypt. They study on bachelor's and specialist programmes, in residency and in postgraduate study.

For international applicants

The Centre of International Education and Language Communication supports foreign students with legal matters, language training and the preliminary check of education documents. The university advises applicants to contact it before applying. Citizens of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus have equal rights with Russian citizens at admission. The admission page says that citizens of all other countries are offered only the paid (contract) form of study. Documents can be submitted in person, by post, through the Gosuslugi portal or through a personal account for foreign citizens.

Housing

According to the mandatory disclosure, the university has one dormitory with 1,472 places. The dormitory page names dormitories No. 9 and 10 at 10 Zalesskogo Street, for non-resident and foreign students. Some categories of foreign citizens have an out-of-turn right to a place under the dormitory regulation. The university also reserves 10 rooms for student families.