Admission 2025: from TOT and Frontline Regions
Simplified admission system with online submission, anonymity, and full support.
🎓 How to Apply from TOT and Frontline Territories
If you live in temporarily occupied territories or in a combat zone, you have the right to simplified admission in 2025 — under the so-called quota-2. This means:
- ●You can apply for state-funded positions through a special procedure
- ●Simplified document verification
- ●Support at all stages
This is provided for by the official admission rules and Ministry of Education and Science Order №271.
👨🎓 Who can apply under quota-2?
You can use quota-2 if:
- ●You are registered or actually live in temporarily occupied territories or in localities where hostilities are taking place
- ●This is confirmed as of any date from June 1 to September 30, 2025
- ●Or your city/village was liberated after January 1, 2025, and you are still there or have already relocated from it
📚 How it works:
- Choose a university or college where you want to study
- Contact the Education Center 'Crimea-Ukraine' or 'Donbas-Ukraine' that operates at this institution
- Centers operate from June 1 to September 30, contacts are available on the institution's website or on the Ministry of Education website
💡 Those who can apply are from:
- ●TOT of Crimea and Sevastopol
- ●Parts of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions where hostilities are ongoing
The list of territories is officially defined by the Ministry of Energy Order №376 dated 28.02.2025
📝 Entrance Examinations
What you need to take depends on whether you have a Ukrainian certificate of complete general secondary education.
If you don't have a Ukrainian certificate:
- Ukrainian language — at school (authorized institution)
- History of Ukraine — at the same place
- Mathematics — at a higher education institution (HEI)
- Subject of choice — at the HEI, in the form of an interview
If you have a Ukrainian certificate:
Only 2 exams at the HEI:
- Mathematics — at a higher education institution (HEI)
- Subject of choice — at the HEI, in the form of an interview
If you choose a creative program (design, art, etc.):
A creative competition is added to the interview.
If you cannot come in person — exams or creative competitions can be completed remotely, with video recording.
Important: The video of the creative competition is not published anywhere — it is stored only for verification by the admissions committee.
For admission to a college or technical school:
Everything is simpler here — you take one entrance examination:
This can be a test, interview, or competition of abilities (creative or sports) — depending on the institution.
📋 Required Documents
To apply through the Education Center, prepare a standard set of documents. Most of them are straightforward, some are optional or if available.
What you need:
- Application for admission
- External testing certificate (ZNO) or NMT — optional, if available
- IDP certificate — if available, not mandatory
- Identity document (passport, ID card). If not available — a birth certificate is sufficient
- 4 color photos 3×4 cm
- Education document (certificate/diploma) and supplement — if available
- Certificate of annual assessment and state final attestation — if the education document is not yet available
Important details
- ●by certificate of residence
- ●or by parents' (guardians') documents
⏰ Application Deadlines
For university admission:
📅 Stage I — state-funded positions:
From July 19 to August 1 (until 18:00)
📅 Stage II — contract with the possibility of transfer to state-funded:
From July 19 to September 23
For college and technical school admission:
📅 Stage I — state-funded positions:
From July 1 to July 23 (until 18:00)
📅 Stage II — contract with the possibility of transfer to state-funded:
From July 24 to September 30
✅ Enrollment
After you are recommended for enrollment — you need to submit original documents.
Deadline for submitting originals:
🎓 For state-funded positions: up to 6 months from the start of studies
🏢 For contract positions: up to 3 months
If you don't submit documents or sign the contract on time — your enrollment will be canceled.
How to sign the contract:
- ●For university admission — can be done remotely using a qualified electronic signature (QES)
- ●For college/technical school admission — the contract can be signed remotely without a QES
Important information:
🔒 Names in rankings and orders are encoded — your anonymity is preserved.
📩 If you cannot submit documents in person — you can send scans to the Education Center's email.
🇺🇦 How to leave from temporarily occupied territories?
🛡️ Safe exit and support
✔ independently for admission to a Ukrainian educational institution
✔ together with your family if it is unsafe to stay
💡 Transport, housing, documents, support, psychological and medical assistance — all free, safe, and confidential.
This assistance is organized within the Bring Kids Back UA initiative, which helps Ukrainians safely leave TOT and Russian territory.
Contacts:
🔹 Bring Kids Back UA
Don’t be afraid to ask for help — you will be helped. Ukraine is waiting for you!
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