Statistics in Russia revealed that “the number of Egyptian students in Russian universities has increased 5 times over the past four years”, noting that “the number of students from 2018 to 2022 increased from 2300 to 12357, in a year in the upcoming academic year 2022/23 the annual quota for Egyptian citizens has been increased to 110 places.

Egyptians go to Russia to study specialties and areas of training in Russian universities, among which the most popular are: “medicine, mechanical engineering, mechatronics, robotics, nuclear physics, technology and international relations.”

Among the Egyptians, the most famous Russian universities are the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Tomsk National Research Polytechnic University, Kazan Federal University, Ural Federal University, Higher School of Economics of the National Research University.

RUDN University President Oleg Yastrepov confirmed that “173 students from Egypt study at this university. Most often, RUDN University students choose “medical business”, “stomatology”, “engineering” and “oil and gas works”.