Education levels

Education in Russia is organized and coordinated by the government, which ensures that general education is free and available for everyone. Most schools are governmental schools but there are private schools have also.

General education in Russia is compulsory and consists of three stages: primary education, which lasts for four years; basic general education lasting for five years and secondary education which lasts for two to three years. General education takes 11 years to complete. Children are enrolled in schools at the age of 6-7 and normally they finish school by the age of 17-18. After completing the secondary general education, the students need to pass the State final attestation, after which they will be awarded a Certificate of Secondary General Education and a student can apply to a university or college.

General education:

Preschool education (kindergarten)
Primary education (1-4 years of school)
Basic general education (5-9 years of school)
General secondary education (5-11 years of school)

Professional education

Secondary vocational education (College. Non-university level)
Higher education – Bachelor degree (4 years of university)
Higher education – Master degree (2 years of university)
Higher education – Candidate of Sciences (3-5 years of university)

VVSU is only university in the Primorsky region which has government funding for all levels of education from preparatory school to university.

Today, the university offers a large variety of degree academic programs in the field of economic, humanitarian and engineering majors, Russian language programs for foreign students and other non-degree programs for international students. VVSU has great experience in the field of student exchange programs with partner universities.