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• Cryosaunas and Liquid Nitrogen: Guatemalan Student Shares Her Experience Of Studying in Russia

  Maria Renee Marroquín Pineda has recently finished the first year of her Master’s studies at ITMO’s Cryogenic Technology Department. Before entering ITMO University, she spent four years studying ecology at Tver campus of Moscow Humanitarian Economic University (MHEU). Having spent five years in Russia, the Guatemalan student decided to launch her own business in the field of cryogenic technologies. ITMO.NEWS asked her about her experience of studying in Russia and her plans for the future.

  27.07.2018

• Curry and Computer Science: Indian Students Come to ITMO

  Discovering the best vegetarian food in the city, studying computer science by day and enjoying the architecture by night, communicating with the locals via Google translate, treating their neighbours to Indian food, cheering for the Russian team at the World Cup, our new students from Parul University in India have had a few weeks of adventure at ITMO University.

  03.07.2018

• 2018 Admissions for International Students

  Today, 20 June 2018, applications open for all Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD students at ITMO University. You can find out here the paths for international students to enrol in the university. Whether you are interested in a Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD program, there are numerous options available, both for state-sponsored, as well as full-fee paying positions. 

  20.06.2018

• How Projects in Computer-Human Interaction Make Our Lives Better

  Gestural interfaces. Gaze tracking. Virtual avatars.  Markku Turunen with Tampere Unit for Computer-Human Interaction at the University in Finland is working on some of the most exciting developments in this area, and is looking for new students.

  20.06.2018

• Nowruz: The Start of Spring

  Every year, some time around March 21st, the sun shines on the whole planet equally. On this day, when the sun rises on the North Pole for the first time, people from many countries in the northern hemisphere celebrate this day as the beginning of a new year and the start of spring! We talked to some of our international students and staff here at ITMO to learn more about how this event is celebrated in their home countries and what it means to them.

  20.03.2018

• From Equatorial Guinea to Russia

  Bernardino Ondo Abaga Ada and Juan Zacarías Okue Ondo Mbang, two international students in their third year of studies at the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovation, came to study in St. Petersburg four years ago from Equatorial Guinea. In an interview with ITMO.NEWS they told us about how they took preparatory courses and learned Russian, how they entered the bachelor's program and some of the peculiarities of studying in Russia.

  15.02.2018

• Exchange Student Shares: “I was truly surprised by the city”

  Read about what brought one of our exchange students to ITMO University. Alexander Arabadjiev who has lived in the United States, Bulgaria, Germany and now Russia shares his story of being an international student.

  08.01.2018

• Leading Russian Universities Open Doors to International Students

  An intellectual competition for future international Master’s students, the Open Doors: Russian Scholarship Project, is kicking off soon, with registration of participants beginning on Nov. 20, 2017. Winners will get an opportunity to study tuition-free, courtesy of the government of the Russian Federation, at Russia’s leading universities. The subject areas include Mathematics, Physics, Computer  Science and Economics. The contest is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and is organized by the “Global Universities” Association.

  20.11.2017

• New "Get Local" International Students Club

  ITMO University has recently launched a new international student club called "Get Local". This club is geared towards English-speaking international students from around the world, particularly those participating in exchange programs and english-language Master’s programs. The working language of the club is English and it will complement the existing International Students Council where most of the international students are from Russian-speaking countries, and therefore the working language is Russian.

  13.10.2017

• Japanese Exchange Students Share Impressions of Russia

  ITMO University was visited by 18 students from 10 Japanese universities as part of a Japanese-Russian youth exchange program. The program was initiated by Junior Chamber International Japan, which also invited ITMO University to participate in the program for the 8th time. Earlier, a group of 18 Russian students, including students from ITMO University, had gone on a similar trip to Japan. During their visit to Russia, the guests from the Land of the Rising Sun were given a tour of ITMO University and went sightseeing in St. Petersburg. They also spent five days in Moscow where they learned about the Russian higher education system. Speaking to ITMO.NEWS, they shared their impressions from their first-ever visit to Russia.

  27.09.2017