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Readmission at ITMO University

The committees on student readmission operate twice a year — in August and January-February.

The numbers of vacant tuition-free positions (information for the winter period will be updated at the beginning of February).

For candidates who have applied for readmission to the Information Technologies and Programming Faculty 1-4 years of bachelor's degree programmes to tuition-free or fee-based education, it will be necessary to pass an attestation test.

For candidates who have applied for readmission to the Advanced Engineering School master's's degree programmes to tuition-free or fee-based education, it will be necessary to pass an attestation test. 

For candidates who have applied to transfer to the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations 2-3 years of bachelor's degree programmes to tuition-free or fee-based education, it will be necessary to pass an attestation test.

For candidates who have applied to transfer to the ChemBio Cluster master's's degree programmes to tuition-free or fee-based education, it will be necessary to pass an attestation test. 

Readmission to tuition-free positions is possible: 

  • For students who were expelled from tuition-free positions for valid reasons;
  • If the program of planned transfer has open positions;
  • Within five years after expulsion into the same year of study or the one below — depending on the outcome of the assessment interview.

Readmission to fee-based positions is possible: 

  • Both for those who were expelled from fee-based positions and tuition-free positions;
  • Within five years after expulsion into the same year of study or the one below — depending on the outcome of the assessment interview.

The application process

 On January from 19 to 26, 2024, applications will be accepted at the Student Services Office at Lomonosova St., 9.

  1. Please apply the following documents at the Student Services Office of ITMO University from January 19 to 26, 2024::
  2. If you are not in Saint Petersburg, you can send the scanned documents by e-mail to transfer@itmo.ru.
  3. NB! If you send the scanned copies of documents by e-mail, then the original documents must be sent by post to the address: 197101, Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Kronverksky Pr. 49, lit. A, ITMO University, (tagged "For the Student Services Office").

To register your application and sign up for an assessment interview, you must provide a full set of original copies of the required documents to the Student Services Office on  January from 19 to 26, 2024. Documents submitted after January 26, 2024 will not be reviewed.

Afterward, a staff member of the Office will contact you to set the date and time of your assessment interview that will be held by the faculty. The attestation meeting will be held from from January from 19 to 30, 2024.

The competition

Readmission to fee-based positions

  • An assessment interview is conducted. Afterwards, a summary is drawn up stating the differences in academic transcripts, the number of credits transferred, and the deadline for the elimination of differences in academic transcripts;
  • The faculty’s committee assesses the applications received. 

Readmission to tuition-free positions

  • An assessment interview is conducted. Afterwards, a summary is drawn up stating the differences in academic transcripts, the number of credits transferred, and the deadline for the elimination of differences in academic transcripts;
  • The faculty’s committee assesses the applications received;
  • After that, the candidates approved by faculty committees are assessed by the university committee in order to reach a final decision. 

The decision

  • If the request is declined, you can apply for the next session of the committee. The number of times you can apply is not limited;
  • If the request is granted, an order for readmission will be issued. Those who have been approved to be readmitted to ITMO to fee-based positions will sign contracts for the reception of paid educational services. The readmission order will be issued once payment has been confirmed. Confirmation of payment should be sent to transfer@itmo.ru.
  • The decision of the committee will be relayed to you after February 7 via the email address stated in your application. The precise date will depend on the order in which documents are provided by the corresponding departments.