Admission 2026: 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
📧 osvita.tot@bringkidsback.org.ua
Don’t be afraid to ask for help. You will be helped. Ukraine is waiting for you!
By Support
This page of the website was developed within the “Abitly” project, implemented with the support of the European Union under the Fellowship Programme for civil society leaders of the Eastern Partnership countries. The content of the website reflects the position of the Abitly project team and does not necessarily reflect the position of the European Union.
