Russia is expected to up student quota for Tajikistan for the 2023-2024 academic to 1000, the office of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) in Tajikistan said on its social media page.
The Deputy Chairman of Rossotrudnichestvo, Pavel Shevtsov, reportedly said this on May 21 while inaugurating the international education fair entitled “Russian-Belarusian Education. Tajikistan” in Dushanbe.
According to him, the decision to increase the student quota for Tajikistan has been made at a meeting of senor representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of Tajikistan with Russia colleagues and Russia ambassador to Tajikistan.
This year, 28,000 Tajik students are reportedly studying at higher educational institutions in the Russian Federation, 5.000 students more than last year.
The Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan Semyon Grigoryev noted that the number of Tajik students studying at Russian universities would continue to increase.
39 Russian universities and 10 Belarusian higher educational institutions have participated in the international education fair in Dushanbe. In Dushanbe, the education fair has already concluded and it will open in the Tajik northern city of Khujand on March 23.
Among the Tajik students, the most demanded areas are economics, software engineering, medicine and management.
