Ministry of Science and Higher Education to tighten rules for university admission under olympiad benefits
Head of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov, at a meeting of the Russian Union of Rectors, called strengthening control over admissions under olympiad benefits the main outcome of the 2026 admissions campaign. The number of top scorers grew by 40.9%, and olympiad winners by 5.5% and 4.3%, as a result of which, at a number of universities, there were not enough state-funded places for applicants with high Unified State Exam scores.
Aziz Karimov