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Admission

Application and Registration

KNRTU-KAI welcomes all international applicants for study and research!

Application date: every year before 15th of July.

Step 1: Choose the program you’d like to take at our University. See deadline information.

Step 2: You should fill  APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION form and provide the International Cooperation Department with the following:

- a properly completed Application Form;

- a copy of your international passport
- a copy of education certificate with certified Russian or English translation
- secondary-school-level certificate for applying for the Bachelor Degree;
- document certifying your previous Degree (for M.Sc.- or Ph.D.- Courses);
You can send the documents by fax +78432310244 or by e-mail: icd@kai.ru

Step 3: We send you the confirmation of a candidate’s admission by the university and issue of an “admission letter” (reservation)/ Usually it takes up to 7 days after submission of the full set of documents.

Step 4: The University starts visa support processing. It takes approximately 35 to 45 days to issue the official invitation letter for study ( by Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation)

Step 5: Send us your contact information (post address and telephone) to send your Invitation letter by regular post OR Send us your contact information (post address and telephone) and transfer payment for the express-post service to send your Invitation letter by express-post.

Step 6: The original of the invitation letter is sent by the University to your country.

Step 7: Your Invitation letter is valid for 90 days. The expiration date of the Invitation letter and entrance visa is the same. You’re obliged to arrive at Kazan a month before the expiration of the visa and not later then August 30 (for preparatory course: not later then September 25).

IMPORTANT: A student visa can be issued at the Embassy /General Consulate of the Russian Federation ONLY if the original of the official “invitation letter for study” issued by the Department of Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation is provided.

Step 8: On a receipt of the official invitation letter for study from the University you should apply for the entrance visa through the Russian Embassy or Consulate in the country in which you are currently residing.

Pay attention: you have to write in visit purpose section: “STUDY” (“Учеба” – in Russian), and name of organization KNRTU-KAI (or КНИТУ-КАИ – in Russian)

  • Passport;
  • Completed application form (issued by the Embassy of the Russian Federation / General Consulate of the Russian Federation in your country);
  • 3 photographs (3x4cm);
  • Original of the “invitation letter for study”
  • Original of medical health certificate, including chest X-ray result;
  • Original of negative HIV test results;
  • Certificate of complete higher secondary education;
  • Official bank documents (receipt) confirming full payment of tuition fees for the first academic year

NOTE: the set of documents required for student visa applications at your local Embassy/General Consulate of the Russian Federation may vary.

In order to enter the territory of the Russian Federation and to be admitted to university, a student should have the following documents:

  • Passport (valid for not less than 2 years);
  • Student entry visa;
  • Immigration Card (supplied during the flight or at the airport; it must be completed by the student and stamped by customs in the airport right after arrival in Russia);
  • Medical health certificate including chest X-Ray result;
  • Negative AIDS test result
  • 12 passport size (3×4 cm) black and white photographs in matt finish.

For candidates obtaining admission to the foundation course or the first year of studies:

  • Original of complete higher secondary education certificate (including mark sheet/academic transcript), that should be legalized/apostilled (i.e. stamped by the Ministry of External Affairs (or Ministry of Education) and the Embassy/General Consulate of the Russian Federation in the country where the student obtained the certificate).
  • 2 copies of legalized/apostilled completed higher secondary education certificate (including mark sheet/academic transcript) notarized at the Embassy/ General Consulate of the Russian Federation and translated into Russian language; the translation should be certified by a notary from the Embassy/General Consulate of the Russian Federation in your country and attached to the copies. All pages of the copies should be numbered, stamped and officially sealed.

For candidates obtaining admission to the Master’s degree, Postgraduate course or PhD

  • Original of higher education degree (including mark sheet/academic transcript for all academic years with subjects, marks and hours for each subject listed) that should be legalized/apostilled, (i.e. stamped by the Ministry of External Affairs (or Ministry of Education) and the Embassy/General Consulate of the Russian Federation in the country where the student obtained the certificate).
  • 2 copies of legalized/apostilled higher education degree (including mark sheet/academic transcript) notarized at the Embassy/ General Consulate of the Russian Federation and translated into Russian language; the translation should be certified by a notary from the Embassy/General Consulate of the Russian Federation in your country and attached to the copies. All pages of the copies should be numbered, stamped and officially sealed.

Thus, each legalized document should have 2 or more stamps:

  1. Legalization stamp of the Ministry of External Affairs of the country that issued your educational documents
  2. Legalization stamp of the Embassy/ General Consulate of the Russian Federation in the country that issued your educational documents

IMPORTANT: During the first academic year students must, at their own expense, hand all educational certificates/transcripts etc. to ROSOBRNADZOR RF for assessment in order to obtain the “certificate of equivalence”. Students should then present their “certificate of equivalence” to the university.

On arrival you should register your passport in the Visas and Registration Department (OVIR office) within three days (excepting holidays and days off).

You may extend duration of your visa while in Kazan in the following cases:

  • it corresponds with the dates of your national passport validity;
  • the reason is your interactions with the University

Step 9: After receiving the visa:

Send to International cooperation department the information about your travel route (airline, flight number, arrival time, etc.) and your cell phone number.

You’re obliged to arrive at Kazan in 5 working days before the beginning of the classes, and not later than a month before expiration of the visa.

Note: Try to have a cell phone with you for hot link from the very first moment of your trip till your arrival in Kazan.

Step 10: Before coming to Russia, please, check weather conditions.

Step 11: Please, save all the tickets and a Migration card (you’ll get it on the intersection of the frontier) for submission to the University upon your arrival.

KNRT-KAI cannot be responsible for the problems you will face on arrival in Russia if you have neglected these instructions.

Contacts:

International Relations Department of KNRTU-KAI

18a Chetaeva Str, Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation

(8th building of KNRTU-KAI)

Room 417 (4th fl.)

tel. +7 (843) 231-16-23

e-mail: icd@kai.ru

 

If you have any questions please fill free to contact us via e-mail icd@kai.ru and we will be glad to provide you with further information.