Bachelor's Degree Stays? Putin Alters Course of Education Reform — Details
The presidential decree expands the higher education reform initiative to include universities across Russia.
Eleven more Russian universities have been included in a project to transition to a new higher education system. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the corresponding decree.
According to the decree, the program will begin in the following universities during the 2026/2027 to 2029/2030 academic years:
Far Eastern Federal University;
Moscow City Pedagogical University;
Bauman Moscow State Technical University;
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology;
Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University;
Russian University of Transport;
Southern Federal University;
Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin;
Tyumen State University;
Stavropol State Agrarian University;
St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University.
Furthermore, the pilot project for higher education reform in Russia, which was launched in 2023, has been extended until 2030. According to it, two levels of higher education have been established in Russia: basic (with a duration of four to six years) and specialized (master«s degree — one to three years, residency, assistantship-internship).
Initially, the pilot project was implemented in six universities: Baltic Federal University named after Immanuel Kant, Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University MAI), National University of Science and Technology MISIS, Moscow State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg Mining University, Tomsk State University.
