Leading technical and humanitarian educational institutions were published. The annual exhibition of state higher education was held on Saturday in New Delhi.
In total, 15 universities of Russia participate in the event. Half of their unified medical academy, but also representatives of federal universities, regional universities (Mari, Kazan, Kalmyk) participate, for the first time technical universities of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Moscow Aviation Institute, as well as the National Research University "Higher School of Economics."
The old tradition
As the head of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in New Delhi, where the event was held, Fyodor Rozovsky exhibition in Delhi was "the last in order, but not the last in importance" event in the framework of a large-scale tour of Russian universities present in the cities of India.
Prior to this, the exhibition, held under the slogan "Time to study in Russia", visited Chennai, Trivandrum, Mumbai and Calcutta.
"The tradition of training (Indians) in Russia goes back to the roots of the times of the beginning of Indian independence. The Soviet Union trained thousands of Indian engineers, doctors, linguists, and scholarly scholars. Today, Russia continues this tradition, many Indians every year come to the exhibition, go to Russia to study, "- confirm Rozovsky at the opening of the exhibition.
He noted that today the main direction in medicine, but there is unrealized potential in other areas, which the Indian public is not sufficiently informed. "We can offer the best in mathematics, physics, nuclear energy, which will be a very promising direction between our two countries," he said.
Not only medicine
This idea reflects the composition of the exhibitors. How to put RIA Novosti representative of RUS Education, promoting the Russian education in India and organizing together with the RCSC exhibition, Dinesh Singla today is a broader participation of federal and technical universities.
"Students go mainly to medical schools. We want to show that there are other courses. Our students could work with these companies, "he explained.
Thus, the chief specialist of the department for work with foreign students of MIPT Albert Baryshev said that the university is participating for the first time in the exhibition.
"Today we came to the exhibition, we are counting on the return, on the interest to our institute. We need specialists in information technology. Everyone knows that in this sphere the Indians are making very great progress, therefore our university, as the leading physico-technical university, is very interested in such a set, "he said.
According to him, now there are students from India in the university, but they are still very few. "As you know, our university studies very, very hard even for Russian students," he added,
Olga Pogosyan, deputy director of the department of the international department of the Moscow Aviation Institute, said that 70 Indian students are already studying at MAI, this is one of the largest groups of foreign students after Malaysia, Vietnam and China, but this year the university expects to receive 150 Indian students ,
"Basically they are all on master's programs, because we have very specific programs related to space, aircraft construction, engine building, avionics and control systems, that's why they come to us for serious education," she points out.
According to her, students themselves find the university, not in the directions. "There is a huge number of children who just go crazy about the cosmos. They just look for us and find us, "Pogosyan said.
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The growth of the number of Indian students is counted in the Higher School of Economics, which also takes part for the first time in the exhibition in India.
As the director of the Center for International Student Recruitment of the University Olga Burukina told, 21 Hindu students are currently studying at the Higher School of Economics at master's programs.
"This, of course, is not much, but this is the beginning. And we did not recruit them, they came themselves. And very strong students came, they study in English programs, and they are interested not only in economics, computer technologies, sociology, but, can, "Imagine that this year we are going to host 200 Chinese, I think we are also ready to receive about 100 Indians, and in the future years to increase this number at times, "- said Burukina.
Available and high quality
According to the managing director of RUS Education Sayyida Rigana, in recent years about 1.2 thousand people are sent to study in Russia. At the same time, positive dynamics is noted.
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"Every year, the demand for Russian universities is growing, and last year we sent 1,200 students from India, this year we get a good response, many universities are taking part, every year new universities are taking part, and Indian students are also very interested in getting Higher education in Russia. "This year we plan to send 2 thousand," he said.
Explaining the reasons for the popularity of education in Russia, he explained that, for example, medical education in India would cost the student 7-10 million rupees (6.2-8.8 million rubles), while in Russia it would cost 1.5-2 Million rupees (1.3-1.7 million rubles). But the quality of education remains high. "It is well known that Russian medical education is an education at affordable prices for the formation of absolute quality," Regan said.