Probably, here it is worth starting the discussion with the definition of what makes a top university?
From our point of view, the following factors can be taken into account:

1. The teaching staff of the graduating department in the field of study you are interested in.

Who are these people? What is their area of ​​scientific interest? What sciences do they have? It is desirable that they be active practitioners (as an example, the Faculty of Physical Education at the Higher School of Economics, where Yandex employees teach). Here you will not only be trained by your future employers, but you also have a good chance to prove yourself for further employment.

2. Good curriculum.

Ideally, it should be revised every year to take into account the latest trends in all areas of public life. Compare the curricula of different universities to get an idea of ​​what you will be doing in the next 4-5 years.
Are there any elective courses in this plan? Does this choice really exist? Or is it at the discretion of the university?

3. The presence of international relations.

How much is the university valued on the world stage? Does it have "weight" among other universities of a similar profile from other countries? Do foreign citizens enter it? Does this university have connections with foreign ones for internships and double degree programs? (If so, what is it like? Is it a "filkin's letter" for a decent amount of money, or is it an opportunity to go to a foreign university "to gain experience"?)

4. Availability of targeted reception.

Target admission allows you to get a budget place in a university with relatively small scores. How does this happen? Even before admission, you conclude a contract with an organization that is ready to pay for your education. Under this contract, you will enter the university as part of the targeted admission (even before the start of the waves). And even before you act, you can refuse it. Did you suddenly change your mind?
In return, after graduation, you are guaranteed a job in this company.

5. Master's degree in your field.

If you are applying for a bachelor's degree, then be sure to keep it in mind, as employers are more likely to take a master's degree.
At the same time, it often happens that a bachelor's degree goes without a training profile, but in a master's program you can choose an interesting profile for you from the available ones. By the way, you can go to the master's program in absolutely any area of ​​training, but it is better, of course, to deepen your knowledge in the existing field.

However, back to our question. Naturally, there is no unified recipe by which we could say for sure that it is necessary to act only on the budget at any cost. This is not true.

But, as a rule, universities with higher rates have advantages according to the listed criteria.

To answer this question, we advise you to consider not the university as a whole, and the direction of training you have chosen is in it. Assess how well the graduating department is teaching. It would not be superfluous to ask students how they themselves assess the quality of the education they receive.

Do the above points apply specifically to your field of study? After all, it may happen that the university has a clearly expressed one direction (where these factors are well implemented), but the direction you are interested in cannot boast of this. A less well-known university, on the contrary, meets your needs.

Therefore, it is worthwhile to analyze well what exactly this university will give you? Will it become a starting point for getting a highly paid position? Or will you not find a job with this diploma? You can use the site https://university.linkedin.com/ to see which companies employ people who graduated from a particular university.

Also, do not forget that top universities have a system of discounts. It can be from the exam points scored (if you didn’t have 2-5 points to the budget, then the university can make a discount). Or for good motivation in your studies, he is again able to reward you with a reduction in the cost of education.

One of the benefits of learning today is the availability of education. With the help of services such as Coursera or Stepic, you can take courses not only from the best universities in Russia, but also in the world. So, if you feel that the university of your choice does not provide sufficient knowledge, you can make up for it with the help of online educational platforms.

Nevertheless, the choice is always yours, and if you want to consult in more detail on the issue of admission, we are waiting for you in our group.

Enrollment to the budget occurs in the first and second waves. At the first stage, 80% of the total number of free places is filled, at the second - the remaining 20%. How not to get confused in all this and enter the budget? We have prepared a step-by-step guide for you with all the important dates.

Clarify all controversial issues immediately when submitting documents

Step 1. Submit copies of documents

You have the right to immediately in 5 universities, in 3 directions in each. Use this opportunity so you will have a better chance of getting through on a budget. If you have benefits or the right to enter without entrance tests, you can use it only in one educational institution. The original supporting document must be submitted immediately.

Important dates:

• June 20- start of acceptance of documents;
• July 7-11- completion of the acceptance of documents if you will pass additional entrance tests of a creative orientation or internal exams instead of the Unified State Examination;
• 26 July- the last day of submission of documents, if you are applying according to the results of the Unified State Examination.

Step 2: Pass Internal Tests

If needed. Information about which exams and in what form you need to pass can be found on the website or information stand of the university. There will also be a timetable. All tests take place between 11 to 26 July. If exams at several universities fall on the same day, find out about reserve days for passing.

Step 3: Keep track of your lists

July 27 everyone is starting to publish rating lists of applicants. Surnames are listed in descending order of points. The higher your last name, the more likely you are to be accepted. Count the names according to the number of budget places from top to bottom, yours must not be below the threshold line in terms of the number of places. This criterion is especially important in the last days of applying for admission.

Step 4. Submit original documents and enrollment consent

Dates for submitting original documents in 2018:

Submit your originals to the university where you have the best chance of being accepted. Even if your ranking is not as high in all the lists, remember that everything can change. Universities enroll only those who brought originals on time, regardless of points. If there are several people with high scores in front of you who do not bring documents, you automatically move up.

If a August 1 you bring the originals and go through the rating, then August 3rd you will find out if your name is on the order of admission .

If you did not get into the first wave or did not have time to bring the documents on time, you have to submit the originals to the second wave before August 6th Already 8 August there will be orders for the enrollment of applicants who will be enrolled in the remaining budget places.

An application for consent to enrollment must be submitted along with the original documents

At this stage, the race for budget places is over. But you can still get to the paid branch. Some universities offer discounts for applicants with high scores.

It is difficult to get on the budget, but it is possible. Use every chance. Feel free to ask questions to the admissions office if something is not clear. Keep it up, you will succeed!

We go to university. Tactics and strategy of actions of applicants and their parents

You have probably already chosen the universities and faculties where your grown-up child wants to study. Perhaps they have already sent the documents to the selection committee. And the most important, most exciting question remained: will they enroll - will they not enroll? What else can you do to get into the desired educational institution? Something is possible!

Check the documents again

You, of course, have already studied the websites of the institutes and know what documents are required for admission. Check again if you have everything assembled correctly?

To participate in the competition you will need:

• statement;
• copy of the passport;
• a copy of the certificate with the application;
• originals of documents confirming benefits (for privileged categories, target recipients, olympiads)
• (sometimes) medical certificate 086/U (this document is not mandatory, it should be specified on the website of the university).

What can you miss?

Firstly, if the child graduated from school not this year, but recently retaken the exam, it should be indicated in the application, Which exam result should be taken into account?(After all, they are all in the All-Russian database).

Secondly, do not forget about such an important thing as additional points for individual achievements! The admission committee can add up to 10 points for sports and scientific achievements, as well as for participation in volunteer activities - carefully study this section on the university website, the requirements of educational institutions differ. Another ten extra points can be earned for an essay - the same one that was written in the winter for admission to the exam. Especially often they are interested in the commissions of humanitarian faculties, some are even ready to extract them from the database and re-evaluate them on their own according to a 10-point system. So don't forget to indicate that you wrote the essay!

Applicant calendar: don't miss the moment!

The key dates of admission to the university are very important. We would like to note that if a child has passed the Unified State Examination and will not pass entrance tests and creative competitions, then you have not missed anything yet.

1. Start of acceptance of documents - June 20(for training in full-time and part-time forms for undergraduate and specialist programs).
2. Completion of the acceptance of documents required for admission from persons entering the training based on the results of additional entrance tests of a creative and (or) professional orientation - July 7.
3. Completion of the acceptance of documents required for admission from persons entering training based on the results of other entrance examinations conducted by a higher education organization independently, - July 10.
4. Completion of the acceptance of documents required for admission from persons entering the training without passing the specified entrance examinations (according to the results of the Unified State Examination) - 26 July.
5. Placement of lists of applicants on the official website and at the information stand - no later than July 27.
6. Completion of acceptance of applications for consent to enrollment from persons entering without entrance examinations, entering places within quotas - July 28th.
7. The order on the enrollment of persons who have submitted an application for consent to enrollment, from among those who enter without entrance examinations, entering places within quotas - July 29.
8. Completion of acceptance of applications for consent to enrollment from persons included in the lists of applicants for the main competitive places and wishing to be enrolled at the first stage - August 1.
9. Enrollment order for persons who have submitted an application for consent to enrollment, until 80% of the main competitive places are filled - August 3rd.
10. Completion of acceptance of applications for consent to enrollment from persons included in the lists of applicants for the main competitive places until 100% of the main competitive places are filled - August 6.
11. The order on enrollment of persons who have submitted an application for consent to enrollment, until 100% of the main competitive places are filled - 8 August.

” Please note that these dates specified in the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia dated October 14, 2015 N 1147 (as amended on November 30, 2015) are marked “not later”. Be sure to check the university website for the exact dates!

Differences of the 2016 admission campaign - cancellation of priorities, statement of consent to enrollment (relevant in 2017)

The fundamental difference between the admission campaign of 2016 is the abolition of priority accounting for admission. Previously, when applying to a university for two or three specialties (training programs), you could indicate your preferences with the numbers 1, 2 and 3. If you did not pass to your preferred specialty, you were automatically excluded from this list and included in the next one. Now an applicant participates on an equal basis in the competition in all specialties (recall, an application for admission can still be sent to five universities for three specialties (training programs) in each).

” But where you ultimately decide to go will determine your statement of consent to enrollment. This is just a novelty of this year - without this document, an applicant cannot become a student, even if he tops the rating list and brought the original education documents to the university.

The procedure for admission to the university in two waves

So, how does the admissions process look like this year? You bring documents to the selection committee, according to the list above >>>>. After that, you are anxiously watching the progress of your name in the ranking of applicants. Almost all major universities today indicate in the ranking which of the applicants immediately agreed to enroll and the original documents (that is, they are quite serious), and who are not (that is, they consider this university as a fallback). On the 27th you will see the final list on the university website.

” And only now, after July 27, the real introductory race begins - you can no longer tear yourself away from the university website for a minute!

What happens on the 27th? In fact, now the real qualifying competition begins - only between those who brought the original documents and consent to enrollment. The university is obliged to close 80% of the enrollment, while applicants without originals are ignored (even if they are recommended for enrollment), and those who were at the bottom of the list can move up quickly enough.

So, on August 3, all universities will recruit 80% of students. Of course, 80% is a rather arbitrary figure, someone will want to return the documents after the enrollment order, but in general, the main set will be completed.

I didn't get into the first wave. Will the chances be higher in the second wave?

Depends on which university you are talking about. If we are talking about a prestigious metropolitan university and you are literally on the border of the list recommended for enrollment, then you certainly have every chance to study at your dream university.

” In a provincial university, the chances of enrolling may not be higher, but lower, because applicants who did not agree to be enrolled in the first wave can give it to the second! This means that many who sought happiness in the capitals will spit on the pie in the sky and return to Siberian universities for tits.

A good example: the admissions campaign at the Mukhomran Fence Building Institute.

Consider the situation on the example of the well-known Mukhomran Fence Building Institute in our country (for simplicity of the situation, we immediately consider only competitive recruitment on a general basis, not taking into account orphans, disabled people and citizens of Crimea)

Situation #1

So, 10 people are recruited for the popular faculty of chain-link mesh. Documents were submitted by 100 applicants, their ranked list is on the institute's website. Until August 1, 12 applicants brought original documents and consent to enrollment: No. 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 55, 79, 95, 96, 97, 99 and 100 (numbers from the ranked list).

Since the university is obliged to fill 80% of the competitive places in the first wave, applicants No. 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 55, 79, 95 will be enrolled. Yes, yes, they also took No. 95.

Situation #2

Applicants No. 7, 12 and 95 changed their minds about entering the faculty of chain-link mesh.

Applicant No. 12 brought an application for revocation of documents on July 30 at five o'clock in the evening. Since the selection committee worked only until six, they returned the documents to him on July 31 at 10 am, after which he managed to take the train and take his documents to MGIMO, where he also went through the competition.

Applicant No. 95, as we remember, was on the enrollment list, but on the morning of August 2 he changed his mind and came to pick up the documents. They were given to him after dinner, and he also rushed to MGIMO. But it turned out that he would no longer be enrolled on August 3, since consent to enrollment had to be given before August 1. Meanwhile, instead of the entrant No. 95, the entrant No. 96 was enrolled at the faculty of chain-link mesh on August 3.

Applicant No. 7 decided that he also wanted to go to MGIMO and that he, perhaps, had a chance to get there in the second wave. He came to the university on August 4 and also applied for the withdrawal of documents, hoping that they would be given to him within two hours. But since the enrollment order had already been signed, he was now waiting... waiting... waiting...

Situation #3

Applicant No. 95, who at first decided to wait for the second wave of enrollment at MGIMO, suddenly thought “what am I changing my native Mukhomransk for!”. He took the documents from MGIMO and again took them to the fence-building institute, handed over the originals and consent to enrollment to the selection committee. But it turned out that applicants No. 22, 58, 59, 60, seeing that they enrolled those whose USE results were much worse, decided to take a chance and also brought the original documents and consent to enroll! Since there were three free places left at the faculty (2 places - 20% of the admission plan, and a place vacated after applicant No. 7), applicants No. 22, 58, 59 were accepted there.

So, as a result, applicants No. 1, 2, 5, 9, 22, 55, 58, 59, 79, 96 will study at the faculty of netting. Applicants No. 60 and No. 95 can try their luck next year, although much less able applicants No. 79 and 96 have already become students. That's it!

The most popular questions of parents of applicants

- Can the child write a statement of consent along with the application for admission?

Maybe, especially if you submitted the original documents on education, but only one application for consent to enrollment can be attributed to the university.

And if he changes his mind about entering the specialty where he is enrolled, but chooses another one at the same university where he also applied for admission?

You will have to write a review on the statement of consent to enrollment and a new consent to enrollment.

- Maybe it's better to immediately submit the original documents to the selected university?

- Handed over the original documents, and then decided to pick up ...

And you are obliged to give them within two hours if you came to the selection committee more than two hours before the end of the working day, or in the morning the next day if you applied in the evening. In not the most popular universities, sometimes they try to withhold applicants' documents after the lists for enrollment are published, citing the fact that it takes time to prepare an expulsion order. Know it's not! You still have to return the documents within two hours!

Important!

You may well be enrolled in the chosen university in the first wave, even if you are not included in the list of those recommended for enrollment. The lists are mobile, you can move up the rankings pretty quickly. It is important to bring the original documents on education and a statement of consent to enrollment in time. BOTH of these documents are required.

The competition in the second wave may not be lower, but higher than in the first. Please take this into account when planning your admission.

What is the order of admission to the university, and what does it depend on?

The answer to this question was not as obvious as it might seem at first glance. The fact is that, for unknown reasons, many educational institutions, as it turned out, do not really bother themselves with detailed details of the enrollment sequence, limiting themselves only to its brief summary. But, for future applicants, this is not unimportant, and if the relevant information is difficult to find, then how to understand what is what?

We tried to fill in the gaps and compiled a generalized model of the sequence of enrollment in universities. It looks like this.

The following have the highest priority when enrolling in a university:
1. Applicants who are eligible for admission without entrance examinations.
This category includes - members of the national teams of the Russian Federation that participated in international Olympiads in general education subjects; winners and prize-winners of the final stage of the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren; winners and prize-winners of Olympiads for schoolchildren included in the approved list for the current academic year, if, by decision of the university, they will be given the right to be enrolled without entrance examinations in areas of training corresponding to the profile of the Olympiad.

They are followed by:
2. applicants who have the right to out-of-competition admission (orphans and children left without parental care; persons from among orphans and children left without parental care; children with disabilities, disabled people of groups I and II, as well as other categories of citizens who this right is given in accordance with applicable law);
3. applicants who have successfully passed the entrance examinations and enter the places allocated for targeted admission;
4. applicants entering on a general basis and scoring a large amount of points in the USE;
5. if the sum of points for the USE is equal, applicants who have a priority right to enroll;
6. in the presence (absence) of preferential rights, applicants with a higher score in the profile subject.

In case of equality of scores in the profile subject, the further sequence of enrollment is established by the university itself and, as part of the analysis, is as follows:
7. applicants who have become winners and prize-winners of the regional stage of the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren (upon admission to specialties corresponding to the profile of the Olympiad and the presence of relevant documents in his personal file);
8. applicants who have become winners and prize-winners of Olympiads that are NOT included in the approved list, organized by the university itself (when entering specialties corresponding to the profile of the Olympiad and the presence of relevant documents in his personal file);
9. applicants - medalists, holders of a certificate of secondary education with honors;
10. applicants who have completed their studies at the preparatory courses of the university (if there are relevant documents in their personal file);
11. applicants with the highest result of the arithmetic mean of the final grades of the certificate.

From the foregoing, at least two important conclusions can be drawn. First - in the absence of a detailed description of the enrollment sequence, this question should be asked to the admissions committee of the university where you are going to enter. And the sooner the better. And the second. The admission experience of past years has shown that with a high density of USE results, members of the selection committees often had to calculate priorities, literally with a calculator. It follows that almost any achievement of an applicant can benefit him. The main thing is only that the appropriate confirmation of merit be in his personal file, i.e. in other words, it would have been handed over to them complete with all other documents.