Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) and the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) organized a conference that tackled strategies for attracting, admitting, and adapting international students.
The conference, “International Students in RF Higher Education Institutions: Strategies of Attraction, Admission, and Adaptation,” was the final event of the comprehensive advanced training program in the field of international activities.
Key Takeaways:
- SPbPU partnered with the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia to host a conference for Russian universities.
- The conference tackled strategies for attracting, admitting, and adapting international students.
- Modern mechanisms of university promotion and recruitment of international students have been discussed.
More than 80 participants from 10 Russian universities took part in the discussion with the leading experts from SPbPU and RUDN.
Participants also joined various plenary sessions and thematic sections which tackled modern mechanisms of university promotion and recruitment of international students, and current problems of admission and stay of international students among others.
The unique experience of leading experts in the methods of promotion of the university and recruitment, features of admission and adaptation of international students, and international summer and winter schools have also been featured in the gathering.
The conference concluded with the discussion platform about summer school as a tool to attract international students to the university.
It can be noted that SPbPU is a leader among Russian universities both in the number of students of summer and winter schools and the number of students studying at the university.
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