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Национальный исследовательский Нижегородский государственный университет им. Н.И. Лобачевского
Natsionalnyi issledovatelskii Nizhegorodskii gosudarstvennyi universitet im. N.I. Lobachevskogo (transliteration ours)
Federal state institution · Нижний Новгород · Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
unn.ru →Students
20,533
16,058 full-time
On state-funded places
52.5%
47.5% on fee-paying places
Foreign students
1,617
7.9% of students
Teaching staff
1,138
excluding external part-timers
Bachelor's, specialist and master's students, all study forms, 2025 monitoring round. Branches (филиалы) report to the monitoring separately and are listed under the region they are in; a head institution's figures do not include its branches.
Average ЕГЭ score of entrants
| Entrants, 2025 round | Average per exam |
|---|---|
| State-funded places | 77.9 |
| State-funded, excluding special-rights and targeted-training entrants | 77.5 |
| Fee-paying places | 61.9 |
| State-funded and fee-paying combined | 70.9 |
| Lowest score admitted per programme, averaged over programmes | 49.6 |
| Monitoring round | Combined average |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 71.3 |
| 2022 | 72.3 |
| 2023 | 72.1 |
| 2024 | 72.2 |
| 2025 | 70.9 |
The line before 2024 is a caution — see the note below.
The ЕГЭ (Unified State Exam) figures are the average score per exam, out of 100, of the students admitted on their ЕГЭ results to full-time bachelor's and specialist programmes. Each is ONE figure for the whole institution, pooled across all its programmes — medicine and teacher training share one number — so it is not a cut-off for any programme. The ЕГЭ is Russia's school-leaving exam; most foreign applicants are admitted through the Russian government's quota or the university's own entrance tests instead. That is why this section is a directory, not a matcher.
The monitoring publishes the average in several cuts that differ a lot: state-funded places only, state-funded excluding entrants with special rights and targeted-training contracts, fee-paying places only, and the lowest score admitted on each programme averaged over the institution's programmes. They are shown separately and never combined.
The combined average (state-funded and fee-paying) is shown for the monitoring's 2021–2025 rounds. The line before 2024 is a caution, not a finding: some institutions' averages move sharply between the 2023 and 2024 rounds and the monitoring documents no change of method, while across all the institutions listed the typical year-to-year change is under one point in every round.
Branches (4)
| Branch | Students | Foreign | ЕГЭ avg, state-funded | ЕГЭ avg, combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Арзамасский филиалАрзамас · Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 3,373 | 10.8% | 63.7 | 63.7 |
| Дзержинский филиалДзержинск · Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 577 | 0.3% | 69.8 | 64.5 |
| Павловский филиалПавлово · Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 277 | 0.0% | 62.7 | 58.6 |
| Балахнинский филиалБалахна · Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 216 | 0.0% | 65.9 | 65.9 |
What it costs
State-funded (бюджетные) places carry no tuition fee; students on fee-paying places (по договорам) pay the fee the institution sets. Foreign citizens can study on state-funded places through the Russian government's quota, or pay the institution's fee. The monitoring publishes no fees.
Registered name: Федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Национальный исследовательский Нижегородский государственный университет им. Н.И. Лобачевского». Ведомственная принадлежность (supervising body): Министерство науки и высшего образования Российской Федерации. Names are the monitoring's, in Russian, without the legal form (“Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования …”); the Latin transliteration under each name is ours (ICAO system), not an official English name. Region names in English are ours. The monitoring covers civilian higher education: it excludes institutions of the federal bodies that train staff for defence, state security and law enforcement, and institutions that submitted no return. Student figures are bachelor's, specialist and master's students (all study forms); postgraduate and vocational students are not counted.
Other institutions in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast: Нижегородский государственный педагогический университет имени Козьмы Минина, Нижегородский государственный технический университет им. Р.Е. Алексеева, Приволжский исследовательский медицинский университет, Нижегородский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет, Нижегородский государственный агротехнологический университет имени Л.Я. Флорентьева, Волжский государственный университет водного транспорта, Нижегородский государственный лингвистический университет им. Н.А. Добролюбова, Нижегородский государственный инженерно-экономический университет, Нижегородская государственная консерватория им. М.И. Глинки, Нижегородская духовная семинария Нижегородской Епархии Русской Православной Церкви (Московский Патриархат)
Source: Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Минобрнауки России), monitoring of the performance of higher-education institutions, 2025 round (“Мониторинг эффективности деятельности образовательных организаций высшего образования”; results updated 3 February 2026), run and published by the Main Information and Computing Centre (ГИВЦ) of MIREA – Russian Technological University: www.miccedu.ru (monitoring.miccedu.ru), read 2026-10-20.
Changes by CollegeMatcher: a selection of indicators; short names without the legal form; Latin transliterations and English region names; totals, medians and shares where stated as ours.