The list of the best design universities in Russia will help determine future students with the most profitable place to receive higher education and a suitable creative specialty. We offer you to get acquainted with our top universities that provide the best conditions for training and first-class training programs, thanks to which you can improve your qualifications or get a degree and a valuable diploma.
In universities, a variety of creative specialties related to design can be obtained from the list, for example:
- Game designer, animator
- Interior designer, architect
- Graphic Designer
- Mobile App Designer
- Web Developer/Designer
- Product Designer
- Fashion designer, art director.
Students study drawing, painting, art history and master the basics of production skills and design. Training is conducted on the basis of professional programs that involve the training of mid- and senior-level specialists.
In extracurricular time, children attend additional courses and master classes. Top universities are often visited by invited guests who share their experience in achieving goals in the field of design and creativity. The developed infrastructure of educational institutions guarantees a full-fledged comfortable learning using modern technologies.
In TOP universities, students study:
- Performing pre-project analysis for design projects
- Preparation of a coloristic solution for a design project
- Perform thumbnails using different graphics tools
- Using reference samples of the design object in the layout, material
- The use of various materials, taking into account their form-forming properties.
Top design universities in Russia 2025 rankings
| 1 | Synergy University |
| 2 | Sevastopol State University |
| 3 | Higher School of Economics University in Nizhny Novgorod |
| 4 | Kosygin Russian State University |
| 5 | Moscow Polytechnic University |
| 6 | Bauman University |
| 7 | Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration |
| 8 | Russian State Social University |
| 9 | Moscow State Regional University |
| 10 | Moscow Information Technology University – Moscow Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering |
| 11 | Udmurt State University |
| 12 | Irkutsk National Research Technical University |
| 13 | Higher School of Economics University in Saint Petersburg |
| 14 | Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute |
| 15 | Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts |
| 16 | Moscow Architectural Institute |
| 17 | Russian International Academy of Tourism |
| 18 | GITR FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL |
| 19 | Russian State University for the Humanities |
| 20 | Moscow State Institute of Culture |
| 21 | Moscow City Pedagogical University |
| 22 | Peoples ' Friendship University of Russia / RUDN University |
| 23 | Russian State University of Tourism and Service |
| 24 | State University of Land Management |
| 25 | Higher School of Economics |
| 26 | Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technologies and Management |
| 27 | National Research University "MEI" |
| 28 | Plekhanov University |
| 29 | Gerasimov All-Russian State University of Cinematography |
| 30 | Moscow State Pedagogical University |
| 31 | MIREA – Russian Technological University |
| 32 | St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering |
| 33 | Pushkin Leningrad State University |
| 34 | Institute of Business and Design |
| 35 | Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University named after S. M. Kirov |
| 36 | St. Petersburg State University |
| 37 | Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University |
| 38 | St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design |
| 39 | Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University |
| 40 | Kazan Federal University |
| 41 | Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin |
| 42 | Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering |
| 43 | Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University |
| 44 | South Ural State University |
| 45 | Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University |
| 46 | Omsk State Technical University |
| 47 | Omsk State Pedagogical University |
| 48 | Togliatti State University |
| 49 | International Institute of Design and Service |
| 50 | Samara State Technical University |
| 51 | Southern Federal University |
| 52 | Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic University |
| 53 | Don State Technical University |
| 54 | Bashkir State Pedagogical University named after M. Akmullah |
| 55 | Ufa State Petroleum Technical University |
| 56 | Siberian Federal University |
| 57 | Krasnodar State Institute of Culture |
| 58 | Kuban State University |
| 59 | Sochi State University |
| 60 | Perm State National Research University |
| 61 | Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University |
| 62 | Voronezh State Pedagogical University |
| 63 | Voronezh State Technical University |
| 64 | Volgograd State Technical University |
| 65 | Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University |
| 66 | Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov |
| 67 | Tyumen Industrial University |
| 68 | Polzunov Altai State Technical University |
| 69 | Far Eastern Federal University |
| 70 | Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service |
| 71 | National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University |
| 72 | National Research Tomsk State University |
| 73 | Orenburg State University |
| 74 | Kemerovo State University |
| 75 | Ryazan State Radio Engineering University |
| 76 | Vyatka State University |
| 77 | Astrakhan State University |
| 78 | Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University |
| 79 | Pyatigorsk State University |
| 80 | North Caucasus Federal University |
| 81 | Smolensk State University |
| 82 | Belgorod State Technological University named after V. G. Shukhov |
| 83 | Orel State University named after I. S. Turgenev |
| 84 | South-Russian Humanitarian Institute |
| 85 | Nizhnevartovsk State University |
| 86 | Kirov Institute (branch) Moscow University of Humanities and Economics |
| 87 | National Research University "MIET" |
| 88 | Moscow State University for the Humanities |
| 89 | Gzhel State University |
| 90 | Moscow Economic Institute |
| 91 | Institute of Economics and Culture |
| 92 | Moscow Regional Socio-Economic Institute |
| 93 | Institute of Contemporary Art |
| 94 | St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. E. Repin at the Russian Academy of Arts |
| 95 | Technological University |
| 96 | St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture |
| 97 | St. Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television |
| 98 | Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design |
| 99 | University under the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Eurasian Economic Community |
| 100 | Kazan National Research Technological University |
| 101 | Kazan Innovative University named after V. G. Timiryasov (IEML) |
| 102 | Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering |
| 103 | Ural State University of Architecture and Art |
| 104 | Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture |
| 105 | South Ural Technological University |
| 106 | Togliatti Academy of Management |
| 107 | Volga Region State University of Service |
| 108 | Krasnoyarsk State Institute of Arts |
| 109 | Academy of Marketing and Social and Information Technologies |
| 110 | Armavir State Pedagogical University |
| 111 | Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G. F. Morozov |
| 112 | Tyumen State Institute of Culture |
| 113 | Altai State Institute of Culture |
| 114 | Dagestan State Pedagogical University |
| 115 | Tomsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering |
| 116 | Kemerovo State Institute of Culture |
| 117 | Astrakhan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering |
| 118 | Penza State University of Architecture and Construction |
| 119 | Belgorod State Institute of Arts and Culture |
| 120 | Ural Branch of the Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture |
| 121 | Moscow Branch of the Russian International Academy of Tourism in Izmailovo |
| 122 | Kirov Branch of the Moscow University of Finance and Law |
| 123 | Kaluga Branch of the Moscow Humanitarian and Economic Institute |
| 124 | Novosibirsk Technological Institute (branch of the Kosygina Russian State University) |
| 125 | Pyatigorsk Institute (branch) North Caucasus Federal University |
| 126 | Sergiev Posad branch of the Higher School of Folk Arts |
| 127 | Naberezhnye Chelny Institute of Kazan Federal University (branch) |
| 128 | Vernadsky Crimean Federal University |
| 129 | Crimean University of Culture, Arts and Tourism |
| 130 | Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts |
| 131 | Moscow Art and Industrial Institute |
| 132 | National Institute of Design |
