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Admission Benefits and Quotas 2025

How a benefit differs from a quota, and the documents you need.

Valeriia Baranivska3 July 2026 · 5 min read

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What are benefits and quotas?

A benefit is the right to special admission conditions.
Examples of benefits are:

Admission without competition (through an interview).
Taking part in the competition under a quota.
Transfer to vacant state-funded places.

Benefits are available to:

Combat veterans, their relatives and their children.
People with disabilities.
Orphans.
People affected by the war, internally displaced persons and so on.

A quota is a separate share of the state-funded places, reserved for certain categories of applicant.
There are currently 2 categories of quota: quota 1 and quota 2.

Quota 1. To be entitled to admission under quota 1, the applicant must belong to one of these categories:

a person with a group I or II disability.
orphans and children deprived of parental care.
people held captive as a result of the armed aggression against Ukraine.

Quota 2. Quota 2 is available to these categories:

applicants from temporarily occupied territories, or from settlements classified as areas of active hostilities on any date between 1 June and 30 September of the year of admission. You can read more about preferential admission for children from temporarily occupied territories at this link.
applicants whose place of residence was de-occupied after 1 January of the year of admission, and who live in that territory or were internally displaced during the year of admission.

Foreign nationals have their own types of benefit and quota, determined by their citizenship and their legal status in Ukraine.

For certain benefit categories, admission within their quota can be based on entrance examinations at the institution instead of sitting the NMT. For example, an applicant may be enrolled on the basis of an interview.

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Category of applicant	Benefits and quotas
Internally displaced persons	transfer (if places are available) to state-funded places left vacant by people enrolled on a fee-paying basis
Applicants from temporarily occupied territories or settlements classified as areas of active hostilities	1) taking part in the competition under quota 2 on the basis of an interview instead of NMT results. 2) transfer (if places are available) to state-funded places left vacant by people enrolled on a fee-paying basis
Applicants whose place of residence was de-occupied after 1 January of the year of admission, and who live in that territory or were internally displaced during the year of admission	1) taking part in the competition under quota 2 on the basis of an interview instead of NMT results. 2) transfer (if places are available) to state-funded places left vacant by people enrolled on a fee-paying basis
People whose place of residence is registered (declared) in settlements classified as areas of possible hostilities as of 1 July 2025	transfer (if places are available) to state-funded places left vacant by people enrolled on a fee-paying basis
People whose request for special NMT arrangements was refused. People with disabilities who could not sit the NMT because of illness.	taking part in the competition on the basis of an interview instead of NMT results
People disabled as a result of the war	enrollment on a state-funded place on the basis of a positive interview result, or an interview and a creative entrance exam
People with disabilities who are unable to attend an educational institution	enrollment on a state-funded place on the basis of a positive interview result, or an interview and a creative entrance exam
People with a group I or II disability who sat the NMT	1) taking part in the competition under quota 1; 2) transfer (if places are available) to state-funded places left vacant by people already enrolled
People injured during the Revolution of Dignity, and combat veterans	1) taking part in the competition on the basis of an interview instead of the NMT 2) transfer (if places are available) to state-funded places left vacant by people enrolled on a fee-paying basis
Orphans and children deprived of parental care	1) taking part in the competition under quota 1; 2) transfer (if places are available) to state-funded places left vacant by people enrolled on a fee-paying basis
Former prisoners of war	1) taking part in the competition under quota 1; 2) transfer (if places are available) to state-funded places left vacant by people enrolled on a fee-paying basis
Children of fallen (deceased) Defenders of Ukraine	1) mandatory transfer to state-funded places left vacant by people enrolled on a fee-paying basis. 2) taking part in the competition for a state-funded place with a competitive score below 130
Children of people who died while held captive	1) mandatory transfer to state-funded places left vacant by people enrolled on a fee-paying basis. 2) taking part in the competition for a state-funded place with a competitive score below 130
People one of whose parents died of wounds received while taking part in the Revolution of Dignity	1) mandatory transfer to state-funded places left vacant by people enrolled on a fee-paying basis. 2) taking part in the competition for a state-funded place with a competitive score below 130
People one of whose parents (or adoptive parents) was a serviceman or police officer who died or was declared missing by a court while performing their duties	1) mandatory transfer to state-funded places left vacant by people enrolled on a fee-paying basis. 2) taking part in the competition for a state-funded place with a competitive score below 130
Children from large families (five or more children)	transfer (if places are available) to state-funded places left vacant by people enrolled on a fee-paying basis

How do you use a benefit? A step-by-step guide.

First of all you need to prepare the documents that prove your entitlement. The list of required documents is at this link..

Upload scanned copies of the documents to the applicant’s Electronic Account (EDBO). You do this right after registering the account, or while filling in your personal details — BEFORE adding applications to specialties and confirming them. In the relevant sections of the account (for example, “Documents” or “Benefit details”), upload clear scans of the supporting documents in the formats specified (PDF, JPG).

Flag your entitlement when submitting applications to specialties:
When you add each specific specialty to your list in EDBO, the system will usually offer you the appropriate grounds for the benefit from a drop-down list (based on the documents you uploaded). Be sure to select the right grounds for every specialty you are claiming a benefit on.

To avoid problems with benefits and quotas, we recommend contacting the admissions committee of the institution you want. Claiming a benefit is a personal, sensitive procedure carried out individually with each applicant, and the documents required can differ.

Checking the ranking lists:

Once the ranking lists start being drawn up, your electronic account and the public rankings for each specialty will show your benefit category (for example, “Combat veteran” or “Internally displaced person”). For categories with priority enrollment (orphans, people with disabilities) they also show whether you fall within the quota (for example, “Recommended for enrollment within the quota”).

Important: check carefully that your benefit is shown correctly! If there is a mistake, contact the university’s admissions committee or EDBO support immediately.

After you confirm your consent and the enrollment order is issued, you must submit the ORIGINALS of all documents, including those proving your entitlement to the benefit, to the university’s admissions committee within the deadline they set.

If an applicant is refused enrollment under special conditions because there are not enough free state-funded places within quota 1 or quota 2, they can still apply on the general terms.