Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University
Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University



Minin University located in the Volga Federal District is one of the oldest universities that occupies a leading place among the pedagogical universities of the Russian Federation.
Minin University offers fundamental and practical education of all levels of training: 150 main professional educational programs, implemented in 9 faculties in the field of pedagogy and inclusive education, linguistics, psychology, IT, physics and mathematics, ecology, chemistry and biology, economics and management, design, music and choreography.
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PRE-UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS

Preparatory Russian language course

Duration: 10 months. Tuition fee $1 546

This program provides training for foreign citizens and stateless persons to master the main professional educational (Bachelor’s, Master’s, Specialist’s) and PhD programs in Russian.

The program includes lectures, practical and independent studies on the following fields of study:

  • Humanitarian
  • Medicine and Biology
  • Economics
  • Natural Science
BACHELOR’S PROGRAMS

Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy

Psychological and pedagogical education

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Pedagogy and Psychology $1637
  • Psychology and Pedagogy of Primary Education $1637
  • Psychology and Pedagogy of Preschool Education $1637

With two majors:
  • Primary and Additional Education $1637

Special (defectological) education:
  • Speech Therapy $1809
  • Oligophrenopedagogy $1809
  • Special Psychology $1809

Faculty of Humanities

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Philosophy/ Social Management $1 637

Pedagogical education (with two majors):
  • History and Social Science $1637
  • History and Law $1637
  • Social Science and Fundamentals of Religious Cultures Secular and Ethics $1637
  • Russian Language and Literature $1637

Faculty of Linguistics

Pedagogical education

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Foreign (English) language $1 637
  • Russian as a foreign language $1 637

With two majors:
  • Foreign languages - English and Chinese $1763
  • Foreign languages - English and German/French/Spanish $1709
  • English and Primary Education $1637
  • English and Russian as a foreign language $1637

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Geography

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Geography/ Regional policy and territorial project planning $1978
  • Ecology and nature management/Environmental management and auditing $1878

Pedagogical education (with two majors):
  • Biology and Chemistry $1637
  • Geography and Biology $1637

Faculty of Management, Social and Technical Services

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Service for the provision of services to the population $1 637
  • Economics/ Economics and Finance $1 637
  • Management/ Human resource management $1 637

Vocational education:
  • Organization management $1637
  • Operations in logistics $1637
  • Jurisprudence and Law Enforcement $1637
  • Finance and Business Intelligence $1637
  • Economics and Management $1637

Pedagogical education (with two majors):
  • Technology and Economics $1637

Faculty of Physics and Technology

Russian taught programs

Duration 5 years

Tuition fee $/ per year

Pedagogical education (with two majors):
  • Mathematics and Computer Science $1637
  • Mathematics and Physics $1637
  • Mathematics and Economics $1637

Faculty of Information Technologies

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Information systems and technologies $1878
  • Pedagogical education (with two majors)/Computer Science and Technology $1637
  • Applied Computer Science (Informatics) in Management $1878

Faculty of Physical Education and Sports

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Pedagogical education/ Physical Culture $1 637
  • Pedagogical education (with two majors)/ Physical Culture and Life Safety $1637

Faculty of Design, Fine Arts and Media Technologies

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Design/ Graphic design $3240
  • Design/ Environment design $3240
  • Pedagogical education/ Music $1637
  • Vocational education/ Design and decoration art $1719
SPECIALIST'S PROGRAM

Faculty of Design, Fine Arts and Media Technologies

Russian taught programs

Duration 5 years

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Production/ Producer of TV and radio programs (RUS) $3240
MASTER’S PROGRAMS

Russian taught programs

Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical Education:
  • Business Pedagogy $1769
  • Designing research activities for teachers and students $1769
  • Educational Advisor $1769

Psychological and pedagogical education:
  • Crisis psychology of children and adults $1769
  • Psychological and pedagogical support for the development of children's individuality $1769
  • Development of personal potential in education: digitalization and personalization $1769
  • Family education $1769
  • Preschool Education Management $1769

Special (defectological) education:
  • Psychological and pedagogical support for persons with disabilities $1769

Faculty of Humanities

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • Religious studies and culture of confessions $1769
  • Modern Strategies for Literary Education $1769
  • Teaching Russian as a foreign language $1769
  • Theories and practices of modern historical research $1769

Faculty of Linguistics

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • Foreign language $1769
  • International education $2170
  • Russian as a foreign language in a digital environment $1769
  • Technologies of teaching German as a foreign language $1769

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Geography

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • Security of educational systems $1769
  • Biology and Chemistry in Modern Education $1769
  • Geo-environmental education $1769
  • Geography/ Geoinformation systems in territorial design and environmental safety $2004

Faculty of Management, Social and Technical Services

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • Innovations in financial and economic education $1769
  • Mechatronics and Robotics $1769
  • Management in the system of additional education for children $1769

Vocational education
  • Management of educational systems $1769

Faculty of Physics and Technology

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • STEAM pedagogy $1769

Faculty of Information Technologies

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • Digital Pedagogy $1769

Faculty of Physical Education and Sports

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • Educational technologies in the field of physical education $1 769

Faculty of Design, Fine Arts and Media Technologies

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Vocational education
  • Stylization and interior decoration $2170
  • Theater Pedagogy and Media Education $2170
MASTER’S PROGRAM
English taught program

Faculty of Design, Fine Arts and Media Technologies

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

  • International education $2170
PHD PROGRAMS

Programs

Russian taught programs

Duration 3 years/ Tuition fee $/per year $2010

  • Educational psychology, psychodiagnostics of digital educational environments
  • National (Russian) History
  • World History
  • History of Philosophy
  • Philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture
  • Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies
  • Theory and methods of teaching and education (by region)
  • Methodology and technology of vocational education
  • Russian literature and literature of Ethnicities of the Russian Federation
  • Russian. Languages of Ethnicities of the Russia
PRE-UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS

Preparatory Russian language course

Duration: 10 months. Tuition fee $1 546

This program provides training for foreign citizens and stateless persons to master the main professional educational (Bachelor’s, Master’s, Specialist’s) and PhD programs in Russian.

The program includes lectures, practical and independent studies on the following fields of study:

  • Humanitarian
  • Medicine and Biology
  • Economics
  • Natural Science
BACHELOR’S PROGRAMS

Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy

Psychological and pedagogical education

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Pedagogy and Psychology $1637
  • Psychology and Pedagogy of Primary Education $1637
  • Psychology and Pedagogy of Preschool Education $1637

With two majors:
  • Primary and Additional Education $1637

Special (defectological) education:
  • Speech Therapy $1809
  • Oligophrenopedagogy $1809
  • Special Psychology $1809

Faculty of Humanities

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Philosophy/ Social Management $1 637

Pedagogical education (with two majors):
  • History and Social Science $1637
  • History and Law $1637
  • Social Science and Fundamentals of Religious Cultures Secular and Ethics $1637
  • Russian Language and Literature $1637

Faculty of Linguistics

Pedagogical education

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Foreign (English) language $1 637
  • Russian as a foreign language $1 637

With two majors:
  • Foreign languages - English and Chinese $1763
  • Foreign languages - English and German/French/Spanish $1709
  • English and Primary Education $1637
  • English and Russian as a foreign language $1637

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Geography

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Geography/ Regional policy and territorial project planning $1978
  • Ecology and nature management/Environmental management and auditing $1878

Pedagogical education (with two majors):
  • Biology and Chemistry $1637
  • Geography and Biology $1637

Faculty of Management, Social and Technical Services

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Service for the provision of services to the population $1 637
  • Economics/ Economics and Finance $1 637
  • Management/ Human resource management $1 637

Vocational education:
  • Organization management $1637
  • Operations in logistics $1637
  • Jurisprudence and Law Enforcement $1637
  • Finance and Business Intelligence $1637
  • Economics and Management $1637

Pedagogical education (with two majors):
  • Technology and Economics $1637

Faculty of Physics and Technology

Russian taught programs

Duration 5 years

Tuition fee $/ per year

Pedagogical education (with two majors):
  • Mathematics and Computer Science $1637
  • Mathematics and Physics $1637
  • Mathematics and Economics $1637

Faculty of Information Technologies

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Information systems and technologies $1878
  • Pedagogical education (with two majors)/Computer Science and Technology $1637
  • Applied Computer Science (Informatics) in Management $1878

Faculty of Physical Education and Sports

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years/5 years for programs with two majors

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Pedagogical education/ Physical Culture $1 637
  • Pedagogical education (with two majors)/ Physical Culture and Life Safety $1637

Faculty of Design, Fine Arts and Media Technologies

Russian taught programs

Duration 4 years

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Design/ Graphic design $3240
  • Design/ Environment design $3240
  • Pedagogical education/ Music $1637
  • Vocational education/ Design and decoration art $1719
SPECIALIST'S PROGRAM

Faculty of Design, Fine Arts and Media Technologies

Russian taught programs

Duration 5 years

Tuition fee $/ per year

  • Production/ Producer of TV and radio programs (RUS) $3240
MASTER’S PROGRAMS

Russian taught programs

Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical Education:
  • Business Pedagogy $1769
  • Designing research activities for teachers and students $1769
  • Educational Advisor $1769

Psychological and pedagogical education:
  • Crisis psychology of children and adults $1769
  • Psychological and pedagogical support for the development of children's individuality $1769
  • Development of personal potential in education: digitalization and personalization $1769
  • Family education $1769
  • Preschool Education Management $1769

Special (defectological) education:
  • Psychological and pedagogical support for persons with disabilities $1769

Faculty of Humanities

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • Religious studies and culture of confessions $1769
  • Modern Strategies for Literary Education $1769
  • Teaching Russian as a foreign language $1769
  • Theories and practices of modern historical research $1769

Faculty of Linguistics

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • Foreign language $1769
  • International education $2170
  • Russian as a foreign language in a digital environment $1769
  • Technologies of teaching German as a foreign language $1769

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Geography

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • Security of educational systems $1769
  • Biology and Chemistry in Modern Education $1769
  • Geo-environmental education $1769
  • Geography/ Geoinformation systems in territorial design and environmental safety $2004

Faculty of Management, Social and Technical Services

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • Innovations in financial and economic education $1769
  • Mechatronics and Robotics $1769
  • Management in the system of additional education for children $1769

Vocational education
  • Management of educational systems $1769

Faculty of Physics and Technology

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • STEAM pedagogy $1769

Faculty of Information Technologies

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • Digital Pedagogy $1769

Faculty of Physical Education and Sports

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Pedagogical education:
  • Educational technologies in the field of physical education $1 769

Faculty of Design, Fine Arts and Media Technologies

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

Vocational education
  • Stylization and interior decoration $2170
  • Theater Pedagogy and Media Education $2170
MASTER’S PROGRAM
English taught program

Faculty of Design, Fine Arts and Media Technologies

Duration 2 years. Tuition fee $/per year

  • International education $2170
PHD PROGRAMS

Programs

Russian taught programs

Duration 3 years/ Tuition fee $/per year $2010

  • Educational psychology, psychodiagnostics of digital educational environments
  • National (Russian) History
  • World History
  • History of Philosophy
  • Philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture
  • Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies
  • Theory and methods of teaching and education (by region)
  • Methodology and technology of vocational education
  • Russian literature and literature of Ethnicities of the Russian Federation
  • Russian. Languages of Ethnicities of the Russia
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Admission Procedure
1

Choose the program, check the entry requirements.

Choose the field and major of your career at list of academic programs available at Minin University. If you do not know Russian, you need to apply for the Pre-University (preparatory) Course at Minin University.

2

Apply for Admission and get a preliminary approval

Create your personal account, fill the application form and upload the required documents.

3

Pass entering examinational tests

Follow the instructions of admission´s manager. Pay attention to recommendations regarding examinational tests time-table, technical requirements.

4

Sign the contract and pay the tuition fee

If results of entering examinations tests are successful, applicant should sign the Learning agreement and pay the tuition fee (1 semester), send scan copy of check to confirm your payment to admission’s manager.

5

Get your invitation and visa

In case all requirements stipulated in the Learning agreement are fulfilled and your payment of the tuition fees is confirmed, the University will addresses to Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia to launch the invitation process. After 5-7 weeks you’ll get the invitation card (electronic). Use it for to get a study visa in Russian Consulate in your country.
6

Arrive in Russia and Minin University

Follow the instructions of admission´s manager regarding arriving in Russia and Minin University.

Our Students Love Us
Why Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University?

Rich History & Worldwide Recognition

Minin University was founded in 1911. We have been preparing great specialists in the pedagogical sphere for more than 100 years. Our students have a possibility to get a high quality education and precious experience. We know how to make your dream of becoming an excellent specialist come true.

Affordable Education & Guaranteed Job Placement

Students pay tuition on arrival. Preparatory course costs less than $1600.
High education programs cost from $1700 per year.

Accommodation from $200 per year

University guarantees a place at the student's dormitory for every foreign student.

Active Student Life

We regularly organize culture and sport events for our students to help your social life and develop yourself.
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Over 300 foreign students from 30 countries study at Minin University today!
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Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University

Russian Federation, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Ulyanova street, b.1