To be eligible for a study as an exchange or a visiting student at MSU, student must have:

✓ Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0-point scale, or the equivalent;

✓ English language level (to take subject courses in English) equivalent to IELTS 6.0 (except for native English speakers);

✓ TORFL-II / B2 level of Russian language: to take subject courses in Russian;

✓ TBL / A2 level of Russian language: to study Russian language.

Step 1. Ask the international coordinator at your home university:
— to nominate you for international mobility program at MSU (if you study at MSU partner university);
— to approve your desire to study on international mobility program at MSU as a free-mover or to apply for signing a cooperation agreement with MSU.

Step 2. Prepare the documents (see the list above) and fill in the online-application.

Step 3. Upon receiving your nomination and online-application, MSU Department for Internationalisation will assess your submitted application and will send it for approval to a particular Faculty.

Step 4. Once MSU Faculty approves your application and provisional study program, MSU mobility coordinator will send you a formal acceptance e-mail with all the information. If there are any issues with your application, you will be informed about that.

For further information on the nomination process, please, ask the international coordinator of your home university to contact MSU mobility coordinator.

The majority of international students enter Russia with a foreign passport and a study visa. Study visa is not required for students coming to Russian universities from the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Abkhazia, the Republic of South Ossetia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Moldova, the Republic of Tajikistan, Ukraine, the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Uzbekistan.

With internal (national) passports, only citizens of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Kyrgyz Republic can enter Russia. Students from other countries can enter Russia only with international passports.

Students coming on mobility programs can enter Russia only by the invitation of MSU and with the following type of visa: purpose of the trip is "Study", "educational" visa type. Students cannot enter Russia with a "Tourism" visa or any other types of visa.

Step 1. If you need a visa, upon the approval of your application and provisional study program MSU Department for Internationalisation
will send your documents to issue an invitation.
Issuing an invitation usually takes from 25 to 45 calendar days, depending on the country of departure.

Step 2. Wait until you receive an email from MSU Department for Internationalisation with an electronic invitation attached. Print the invitation before contacting the Visa Application Center or the Consulate of the Russian Federation.

Step 3. Contact the visa center or the Embassy/Consulate of the Russian Federation in your country, in the city you specified in the application form, and apply for a visa (a list of consular offices can be found here).

Step 4. Having received a passport with a visa, be sure to check that all the information in the visa is correct. If you find an error, please, immediately contact the employee of the Visa Application Center or the Consulate of the Russian Federation where you received your visa. After the error is corrected, you should make sure once again that there are no more remaining errors in the data.

Step 5. Send a scanned copy of the visa you received to MSU mobility coordinator.

Note: Please, note that foreign citizens who come to Moscow State University for the first time are issued a single-entry study visa for a period not exceeding 90 days. If your actual study period is longer than 90 days, you will need to extend your visa. In the autumn semester visa is usually extended till January, 31. In the spring semester visa is usually extended till June, 30.

The Main building has all the necessary conditions for studying and working: classrooms, laboratories, libraries, co-workings, and museums. There are a Cultural center, a sports complex, a pool in the MSU Main Building. Stadium, sports grounds, tennis courts, baseball stadium and sports halls for track-and-field athletics are located in the surrounding area. A housekeeping house provides a wide range of services: repair of clothes and shoes, photo studio, barbershop, beauty salon, laundry. There are also a post office, shops and stalls. In the building there are several dining rooms, their opening hours include evening hours and the weekends. In the dormitory there are Wi-Fi access points, which allow connecting to the Internet and a local dormitory network.

The building has several options for rooms' arrangement, while the most typical are a block with two rooms of 8 square meters and a block with two rooms of 12 square meters. There are also blocks with one room and with rooms of a larger space. There are from 36 to 60 blocks, two kitchens and lobbies on each floor of the residence hall.

Accommodation fees depend on the provisions of inter-university agreements. The cost of living depends on living conditions.

To apply for housing, please, contact MSU mobility coordinator. Please, note, that the dormitory should be booked in advance.

Moscow, 1 Leninskie Gory, the Main building of Lomonosov Moscow state University, sectors: Б, В, Г, Д, Е, Ж.

Getting here:

• "Universitet" metro station, then take buses 1, 113, 119, 661 or shuttle buses 572, 464 to the stop "DK MGU", or walk for about 21 minutes.
• "Lomonosovsky Prospect" metro station, then take buses 1, 113, 715 to the stop "DK MGU", or walk for about 17 minutes.

Buddy is usually a senior year volunteer student from your Faculty/Department or any other MSU faculty. Buddy will be able to give you some useful information when you are preparing for departure and provide assistance upon your arrival in Moscow (if necessary).

Buddy can:

✓ Explain to you how the class schedule works;
✓ Teach how to use MSU online services
✓ Help you to find the study materials you need;
✓ Tell you how to get to the dormitory, or, if necessary, meet you at the Aeroexpress train station in Moscow;
✓ Give you some useful information and lifehacks about the MSU campus, student life and life in Moscow;
✓ Suggest whom to contact to solve organizational and household issues.

To apply for buddy, please, fill in this form.