North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosov (Ammosov Medical Institute)

• Location: Yakutsk, Russia
• Year of foundation: 1934
• Language of instruction: Russian, English
• Number of students: more than 19 000
• Type of education: mixed.

North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosov (NEFU) is a federal diversified higher educational organization, the largest university in the Republic of Sakha and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. NEFU was originally organized as the Yakutsk State Pedagogical Institute. The current model of the university was created in 2010 by decree of Dmitry Medvedev.

The university is named after the Soviet figure of the state and party, who worked in Yakutia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan - Maxim Kirovich Ammosov.

NEFU is one of the ten universities focused on solving geopolitical problems, meeting the personnel needs of large interregional investment projects.

The university has 17 institutes, 5 of them are research institutes, plus 2 colleges, lyceums and 5 faculties:

• Highway
• Exploration
• Historic
• Philological
• Juridical.

The University has three branches:

• Polytechnic Institute in Mirny
• Technical Institute in Neryungri
• Chukotka branch in Anadyr.

The campus of the university unites 15 dormitories located in the area of Lake Saisary. They are home to more than 5,000 students.

Within walking distance there are educational and laboratory buildings, libraries, sports halls, a swimming pool "Dolgun", numerous food outlets and shops, the cultural center "Sergelyakh lights", etc.

Several dozen student organizations have been established at the university:

• Primary trade union organization
• Student Intellectual Council
• Council for Creative Development of Students, etc.

NEFU Sports Sections:

• Team sports: basketball, volleyball, football
• Aerobics
• Boxing
• Swimming
• Athletics
• Kickboxing
• Cross-country skiing
• Mas-wrestling
• Table tennis
• Athletic gymnastics
• Bullet shooting
• Taekwondo
• Checkers, chess.

Events organized by the University:

• Art festivals
• Sports competitions "Festival of Sports"
• Thematic balls: graduation, spring, New Year
• Celebrations of Student Day, Donor Day, Knowledge Day, etc.
• Research competitions, Olympiads of international, regional, interuniversity levels
• Volunteering.

• 301-400 place in the world, 9-15 place in Russia in the ranking of THE University Impact Ranking
• 17-48 place in Russia among the best universities
• Many academic rankings in leading disciplines
• 63rd place among hundreds of the best universities in the world according to Forbes.

On campus are located:

• 40 educational and laboratory buildings
• Cultural Center "Sergelyakh Lights" with a large auditorium for 740 seats
• Nokhtuysky polygon
• Athletics arena "Youth"
• Swimming pool "Dolgun"
• Ski base
• Network of food factory, cafeteria, pizzeria
• 15 dormitories
• Dispensary "Smena", where students can relax, get medical care
• Scientific library with the status of interuniversity, republican library and scientific and methodological center. Its fund includes more than 1,373,773 copies of literature
• Mammoth Museum named after P.A. Lazarev is a scientific, cultural center for the study of mammoths, their habitat
• Many scientific centers, including the International Center for Molecular Paleontology.

The university has formed 16 scientific schools, 92 educational and scientific laboratories, 22 scientific and educational centers.

The university is developing in international partnership, cooperating with dozens of universities, colleges, research centers around the world.

The academic year is two semesters, at the end of each of which a session is held. Education begins in September, ends in June-July. Pairs run from Monday to Friday. The daily start of classes is 8:00, the duration of each is 1.5 hours.

Additional expenses include:

• Residence
• Nutrition
• Transport
• Medical care
• Books, consumables.

For applicants wishing to enroll in undergraduate programs:

• Registration on the official website of the university
• Application to the Admission Committee
• Certificate of secondary education
• Passport of the Russian Federation, SNILS
• Individual achievements (if any)
• Results of the Exam.

Passing points of the Unified State Exam:

• Profile mathematics – from 39
• Social Studies – from 45
• Russian language – from 40
• Physics – from 39
• History – from 35
• Informatics, ICT – from 44
• Literature – from 40
• Biology – from 39
• Geography – from 40
• Chemistry – from 39
• Foreign language – from 30.

For admission to the magistracy / postgraduate study:

• Registration on the official website of the university
• Application to the Admission Committee
• Diploma of completion of the bachelor's program (master's degree - for postgraduate students)
• Passport of the Russian Federation, SNILS
• Individual achievements (if any)
• Interview with the admission committee.

After submitting the documents, students undergo a medical examination and entrance tests.

Students who are successful in education, studying full-time at budget places, are assigned a state academic or social scholarship. For achieving certain successes in all aspects of student life, the student increases payments from 3716 rubles to 6000-8000 rubles per month. Every year of education the amount increases.

There are also external scholarship programs:

• V. Potanin Charitable Foundation
• Scholarships
• Grants of the President of the Russian Federation
• Grant Il-Darkhana RS(Ya)
• Republican personnel competition "Talents of Yakutia"
• Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision