🎯 Specialties with State Support in 2025: A Better Shot at a State-Funded Place and at Rebuilding the Country

Choosing your future? The state backs your choice! In 2025 there are 44 specialties that receive special support. Choose one of them and you get a better chance of a state-funded place and of rebuilding the country alongside other specialists.

These are strategically important fields for the country’s development: physics, mathematics, education, engineering, energy, agriculture, security, transport. Admission to these specialties comes with preferential conditions set out in the Admission Procedure.

✅ The field coefficient: +2% to your score

Under Section VII of the Admission Procedure, if you submit an application to one of the supported specialties with priority 1 or 2, your competitive score is multiplied by 1.02.
That can lift your position in the ranking — by several dozen places, even.

➕ Extra points for preparatory courses

If you completed the university’s preparatory courses in the year you apply, up to 10 points may be added to your score. This applies to the supported specialties too.

🎯 A qualifying minimum = at least one state-funded place

Applying to these specialties guarantees that the intake will go ahead even with a minimal number of applications. If the university has not set its own “qualifying minimum”, it defaults to 1 state-funded place.

🔁 Redistribution of state-funded places

Higher education institutions can move state-funded places from any other specialty across to the supported ones. That means better odds of being enrolled, even if the intake was smaller than expected.

💡 The option to transfer from a fee-paying to a state-funded place

If you entered on a fee-paying place and have a competitive score of 125 or more, you can be transferred to a state-funded place should any become vacant.

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LIST OF SPECIALTIES THAT RECEIVE SPECIAL SUPPORT