Check out our list of the best law schools in Russia: it will help you navigate a huge selection of educational institutions, choose several priority ones and move on to the next step - applying to universities!
Law universities of Russia for schoolchildren and students are public and private educational institutions with bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs. The number of state-funded places in universities varies, and the top areas are international law, private law, the study of the Chinese language and the law of the PRC and others.
Top law universities in Russia 2025 rankings
| 1 | Russian New University |
| 2 | Russian State University of Tourism and Service |
| 3 | Witte Moscow State University |
| 4 | International Institute of Economics and Law |
| 5 | Higher School of Economics University |
| 6 | Institute of Economics and Culture |
| 7 | Plekhanov Russian University of Economics |
| 8 | Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation |
| 9 | Academy of Labor and Social Relations |
| 10 | Moscow State Regional University |
| 11 | Russian State University for the Humanities |
| 12 | Moscow Financial and Industrial University "Synergy" |
| 13 | Academic International Institute |
| 14 | Kosygin Russian State University |
| 15 | Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL) |
| 16 | Moscow Academy of Humanities and Technology |
| 17 | Russian Academy of Advocacy and Notary |
| 18 | Kikot Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation |
| 19 | Institute of Public Administration |
| 20 | State University of Land Management |
| 21 | State University of Land Management |
| 22 | MGIMO University (Moscow State Institute of International Relations) |
| 23 | Russian University of Transport (MIIT) |
| 24 | Moscow University of Humanities and Economics |
| 25 | Moscow Psychological and Social University |
| 26 | Bauman University |
| 27 | State University of Management |
| 28 | Moscow International University |
| 29 | Moscow City Pedagogical University |
| 30 | Moscow State Linguistic University |
| 31 | Moscow Institute of Modern Academic Education |
| 32 | Institute of Business Career |
| 33 | Moscow Institute of Public Administration and Law |
| 34 | Institute of Finance, Economics and Law of Reserve Officers |
| 35 | Russian State Social University |
| 36 | National Institute of Business |
| 37 | International Independent University of Environmental & Political Sciences |
| 38 | Moscow Socio-Economic Institute |
| 39 | Moscow Institute of Jurisprudence |
| 40 | Moscow State University of Humanities and Economics |
| 41 | Russian Foreign Trade Academy Ministry of economic development of the Russian Federation |
| 42 | GUBKIN UNIVERSITY National University of Oil and Gas |
| 43 | Institute of Social Sciences |
| 44 | Institute of Management and Law |
| 45 | Moscow Financial and Humanitarian Academy |
| 46 | National Institute named after Catherine the Great |
| 47 | Moscow Academy of Economics and Law |
| 48 | Moscow Polytechnic University |
| 49 | Economic and Legal Institute |
| 50 | Institute of World Civilizations |
| 51 | Humanitarian Institute |
| 52 | Stolypin Humanitarian Institute |
| 53 | Peoples ' Friendship University of Russia / RUDN University |
| 54 | Moscow Innovative University |
| 55 | International Slavic Institute |
| 56 | MIREA – Russian Technological University |
| 57 | Griboyedov Institute of International Law and Economics |
| 58 | Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property |
| 59 | University of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation |
| 60 | Luzhkov Moscow City University of Management of the Government of Moscow |
| 61 | Moscow University of Finance and Law |
| 62 | Hebrew University |
| 63 | Moscow State Pedagogical University |
| 64 | Institute of Business Economics |
| 65 | International Academy of Business and Management |
| 66 | Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technologies and Management |
| 67 | Dashkova Moscow Humanitarian Institute |
| 68 | Academic Law Institute |
| 69 | Chernov Russian Institute of Management |
| 70 | Moscow Institute of Economics, Politics and Law |
| 71 | Moscow New Law Institute |
| 72 | European University of Law Justo |
| 73 | Russian Orthodox University of St. John the Theologian |
| 74 | Academy of the Sphere of Social Relations |
| 75 | First Moscow Law Institute |
| 76 | Institute of Legal and Economic Security |
| 77 | Institute of Economics and Entrepreneurship |
| 78 | Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences |
| 79 | State Academic University of Humanities |
| 80 | Modern Humanitarian Academy |
| 81 | National Institute of Business |
| 82 | Moscow Institute of National and Regional Relations |
| 83 | Academy of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation |
| 84 | Moscow Information Technology University – Moscow Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering |
| 85 | International Academy of Assessment and Consulting |
| 86 | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| 87 | Academy of the State Fire Service |
| 88 | Institute of Management, Economics and Innovation |
| 89 | Institute of International Trade and Law |
| 90 | St. Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics |
| 91 | St. Petersburg State University |
| 92 | St. Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 93 | St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation |
| 94 | St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation |
| 95 | Pushkin Leningrad State University |
| 96 | Herzen University |
| 97 | St. Petersburg Military Institute of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation |
| 98 | St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering |
| 99 | St. Petersburg Institute of Humanitarian Education |
| 100 | St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University |
| 101 | St. Petersburg Law Academy |
| 102 | Saint Petersburg State University of Economics |
| 103 | Institute of Law and Entrepreneurship |
| 104 | University under the Interparliamentary assambly of Eurasec |
| 105 | St. Petersburg State Agrarian University |
| 106 | Baltic Institute of Ecology, Politics and Law |
| 107 | Saint-Petersburg University of State Fire Service of Emercom of Russia |
| 108 | Law Institute |
| 109 | Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University |
| 110 | Novosibirsk State Technical University |
| 111 | Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management (NSUEM) |
| 112 | Novosibirsk State University |
| 113 | Novosibirsk State Agrarian University |
| 114 | Novosibirsk Humanitarian Institute |
| 115 | Novosibirsk Institute of Economics, Psychology and Law |
| 116 | Siberian State University of Railway Transport |
| 117 | Institute of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation |
| 118 | Ural Humanitarian Institute |
| 119 | Humanities University |
| 120 | Ural Institute of Economics, Management and Law |
| 121 | Ural State University of Economics |
| 122 | Ural Financial and Legal Institute |
| 123 | Ural State University of Law |
| 124 | Ural Institute of Commerce and Law |
| 125 | Volga State University of Water Transport |
| 126 | Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod |
| 127 | Nizhny Novgorod Law Academy |
| 128 | Branch of the Witte Moscow State University in Nizhny Novgorod |
| 129 | Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (NNGASU) |
| 130 | Timiryasov Kazan Innovative University |
| 131 | Institute of Social and Humanitarian Knowledge |
| 132 | Kazan Federal University |
| 133 | Academy of Social Education |
| 134 | Kazan Institute of Entrepreneurship and Law |
| 135 | Kazan National Research Technical University named after A. N. Tupolev-KAI |
| 136 | Ural State University of Physical Culture |
| 137 | Chelyabinsk State University |
| 138 | South Ural State University |
| 139 | Ladoshin Chelyabinsk Institute of Economics and Law |
| 140 | South Ural Institute of Management and Economics |
| 141 | Chelyabinsk Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation |
| 142 | Dostoevsky Omsk State University |
| 143 | Siberian Institute of Business and Information Technologies |
| 144 | Siberian Law University |
| 145 | Samara State Regional Academy (Nayanovoy) |
