This list of the best transport universities in Russia offers to your attention high-quality educational programs of bachelor's, master's and postgraduate studies with a bias towards obtaining practice in the transport sector. The ranking will introduce you to universities where studies are conducted only according to modern advanced methods, internship opportunities are provided in the specialty and lectures are conducted only by experienced masters of their craft.
In addition to the main direction, university students study English and Russian, applied mathematics, physics and chemistry. The high quality of education complements a large list of extracurricular activities – students can attend technology exhibitions and lectures by invited specialists, go to workshops and organize theme parties.
In TOP universities you will be able to study:
- Technologies of transport processes
- Operation of railways
- Railway rolling stock
- Ground transport and technological complexes
- Auto mechanics and spare parts
- Basics of safety in transport transmissions, etc.
Studying at rating transport universities is suitable for ambitious hardworking students who want to learn a lot of new things in this field.
Top transport universities in Russia 2025 rankings
| 1 | Russian University of Transport (MIIT) |
| 2 | Bauman University |
| 3 | Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy |
| 4 | Moscow Automobile and Road Engineering State Technical University |
| 5 | Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State University for Geological Prospecting |
| 6 | Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation |
| 7 | Moscow Polytechnic University |
| 8 | Peoples ' Friendship University of Russia / RUDN University |
| 9 | Moscow Aviation Institute |
| 10 | Academy of the Sphere of Social Relations |
| 11 | Moscow Transport Institute |
| 12 | Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great |
| 13 | Ustinov Baltic State Technical University "Voenmeh" |
| 14 | Saint Petersburg Mining University |
| 15 | St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation |
| 16 | Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation |
| 17 | Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping |
| 18 | St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering |
| 19 | North-Western Open Technical University |
| 20 | St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University |
| 21 | St. Petersburg State University of Railways of Emperor Alexander I |
| 22 | Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University named after S. M. Kirov |
| 23 | St. Petersburg State Agrarian University |
| 24 | Russian State Hydrometeorological University |
| 25 | Smolny Institute of the Russian Academy of Education |
| 26 | Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University |
| 27 | ITMO University |
| 28 | Naval Academy named after Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union N. G. Kuznetsov |
| 29 | Mozhaisky Military Space Academy |
| 30 | Khrulev Military Academy of Logistics |
| 31 | Novosibirsk State Technical University |
| 32 | Siberian State University of Water Transport |
| 33 | Novosibirsk State Agrarian University |
| 34 | Siberian State University of Railway Transport |
| 35 | Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin |
| 36 | Ural Stock Market Institute |
| 37 | Ural State University of Railway Transport |
| 38 | Ural State Agrarian University |
| 39 | Ural State Mining University |
| 40 | Volga State University of Water Transport |
| 41 | Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University |
| 42 | Branch of the Samara State University of Railway Transport in Nizhny Novgorod |
| 43 | Alekseev Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University |
| 44 | Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering |
| 45 | Kazan State Agrarian University |
| 46 | Kazan National Research Technical University named after A. N. Tupolev-KAI |
| 47 | Institute of Agricultural Engineering of the South Ural State Agrarian University |
| 48 | South Ural State University |
| 49 | South Ural Institute of Management and Economics |
