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A Ministry of Health medical university in Ufa, teaching medicine since 1932 and placed 64th among Russian universities by RAEX for 2026.
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Russia
Country
Ufa
City
#64 in Russia
RAEX-100 ranking 2026
Russian and English
Medium, as listed by the university
For Indian Students
Short answer: Yes, Indian students can study MBBS in Russia. Yes, the degree is eligible for the FMGE, as long as the programme is taught in English throughout and its internship is completed at the same university; a programme taught in Russian, or partly in Russian, does not qualify.
Russian universities admit Indian students directly after Class 12 with Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English, on Class 12 marks and a qualifying NEET UG result, with no separate entrance test and no IELTS or TOEFL. Indian students also obtain the NMC Eligibility Certificate before starting the course.
Yes, when the whole programme is taught in English and the internship is completed at the same university. The NMC Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate Regulations 2021 ask for a course of at least 54 months taught in English, an internship of at least twelve months in the same foreign institution, and a degree that entitles the holder to practise in Russia. The Russian programme is a six-year integrated Specialist degree with clinical rotations and internship in the later years, and at most universities on this page Russian is learned alongside for talking to patients. A few universities teach General Medicine in Russian or bilingually, and the NMC requires English for the whole course, so the internship arrangement and English medium of your programme are what count.
Graduates of a programme that meets these rules sit the FMGE (NExT deferred and not in force), complete any required internship in India and register with the NMC and their State Medical Council. The degree can also support the USMLE or PLAB routes for eligible graduates.
Introduction
Buildings of the Bashkir State Medical University campus in Ufa, with green roofs and landscaped grounds
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Recognition & Prestige
RAEX-100 places Bashkir State Medical University 64th among all Russian universities for 2026, a steady climb from 98th in 2022 through 81st in 2023, 75th in 2024 and 72nd in 2025. In the RAEX Medicine subject ranking it held 8th place in Russia from 2022 to 2025 and was 11th in 2026. It does not appear in the QS or Times Higher Education world tables.
#64
RAEX-100, all Russian universities, 2026
#11
RAEX Medicine subject ranking, Russia, 2026
Bashkir State Medical University is a Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education under the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, the ministry that governs medical education in Russia. Clinical training runs at the Clinic of BSMU, which the university describes as the only multidisciplinary federal-level medical institution in the Republic of Bashkortostan and home to the first robotic surgery centre in the Volga Federal District, alongside the All-Russian Centre for Eye and Plastic Surgery, the Ufa Research Institute of Eye Diseases and the Clinical Dental Polyclinic. The university is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools. For India, the six-year degree opens the FMGE route when the programme meets the NMC's FMGL 2021 rules on duration, internship and an English medium of teaching.
WDOMS
Bashkir State Medical University is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools
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Academic Excellence
Bashkir State Medical University combines a rising national ranking, Ministry of Health status and its own federal-level teaching hospital. The events of 2025 and 2026 set out in Student Life belong in the same decision, and both sides are covered on this page.
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How to Apply
Bashkir State Medical University publishes a seven-step admission process for international applicants. Selection rests on its own entrance test in Chemistry and Biology. A qualifying NEET UG result and the NMC Eligibility Certificate are separate Indian requirements that a student completes before going abroad.
Indian citizens need a qualifying NEET UG result before joining a medical course abroad, and the result stays valid for three years from its declaration. Indian students also obtain the NMC Eligibility Certificate before starting the course.
Applications go to the admissions email address with a certified, translated passport and academic documents, together with the visa invitation enquiry form.
The university states that the invitation letter takes around 30 days to issue.
The student visa is applied for at the Russian Embassy or a Russian Consulate in India with the invitation letter.
Notify the university one week before arrival, then hand the migration card and passport to the International Students' office within three days of arriving in Russia.
Sit the university's entrance examination in Chemistry and Biology, then sign the education contract and pay tuition, visa processing and hostel fees.
Applicants submit academic transcripts translated into Russian and notarised, with a health fitness certificate carrying a vaccination record, and sit the university's Chemistry and Biology entrance test. Under Indian NMC rules an Indian applicant also needs Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English at Class 12, with at least 50% aggregate in Physics, Chemistry and Biology for the general category, 40% for SC, ST and OBC candidates and 45% for general-category candidates with benchmark disabilities, together with a qualifying NEET UG result.
Subjects:
Under Indian NMC rules the candidate must be 17 years old by 31 December of the admission year, with no upper age limit. The university sets no separate age condition.
Two requirements matter most for an Indian applicant to this university.
Entrance Test in Chemistry and Biology
The university sets its own entrance examination in Chemistry and Biology, taken after arrival in Russia under its published process. NEET is not part of the university's own assessment.
The Language of Instruction
The university lists General Medicine as taught in Russian and English at a single price, and runs a separate 700-hour Russian preparatory course. The NMC rules ask for a course taught in English, so settle the year-by-year language plan with our counsellors before any fee is paid.
Admission rests on the university's own subject test rather than on category-wise minimum marks.
| Component | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Entrance test | Chemistry and Biology, set by the university and taken at step six of its published process |
| Documents | Certified, translated passport and academic transcripts, a health fitness certificate with a vaccination record, and a passport valid for at least two and a half years |
| On arrival | Migration card and passport to the International Students' office within three days, a medical check-up of around RUB 4,000 (about ₹4,500) and medical insurance of around RUB 4,500 a year (about ₹5,100) |
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Programme Structure
General Medicine (code 31.05.01, Lechebnoe Delo) is a six-year integrated Specialist degree. Clinical rotations and practical training run through the later years, and there has been no separate internship year after graduation since 2016: the course ends in the state Primary Accreditation examination, which licenses the graduate to work as a general practitioner in Russia. Narrower specialisation then takes two to four years of ordinatura, the Russian residency.
Total Duration:
6 Years, ending in the state Primary Accreditation examination
Degree:
Specialist in General Medicine (Vrach, equivalent to MBBS)
Preparatory year (optional)
A nine-month, 700-hour preparatory course at RUB 253,680 (about ₹2.87 lakh), which the university describes as preparing foreign students to study in Russian:
Years 1 to 3
The structure and function of the healthy body and the mechanisms of disease, under the Russian federal standard:
Years 4 to 6
Clinical teaching across the specialties, with rotations through the Clinic of BSMU and the university's specialist centres in Ufa:
End of Year 6
The State Final Certification followed by the state Primary Accreditation examination, the route into practice in Russia since 2016:
Clinical training runs through the university's own hospital and its specialist centres in Ufa:
| Clinical base | Detail |
|---|---|
| Clinic of BSMU | The university's own teaching hospital, opened in 1970, which it describes as the only multidisciplinary federal-level medical institution in the Republic of Bashkortostan, with the first robotic surgery centre in the Volga Federal District |
| All-Russian Centre for Eye and Plastic Surgery | A specialist centre in Ufa used as a clinical base by the university |
| Ufa Research Institute of Eye Diseases | A research and clinical institute used as a clinical base by the university |
| Clinical Dental Polyclinic | The university's dental teaching clinic |
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Clinical Network
Bashkir State Medical University publishes no student exchange programme for its international track. What determines the training a student receives is its clinical base, built around its own federal-level hospital.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Faculties | General Medicine, Paediatrics, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Preventive Medicine, alongside a medical college at secondary vocational level |
| Clinic of BSMU | The university's own teaching hospital, opened in 1970 |
| Robotic surgery | The Clinic of BSMU houses the first robotic surgery centre in the Volga Federal District |
| Specialist centres | All-Russian Centre for Eye and Plastic Surgery, Ufa Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Clinical Dental Polyclinic and the university sanatorium |
| Governing ministry | Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation |
Explore the Clinical Training Network
The table above sets out the university's faculties, its own hospital and its specialist clinical centres.
Legacy
The university has taught medicine in Ufa since 1932 and is led by a rector who is an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Rector of Bashkir State Medical University. He holds an MD and a Doctor of Science degree, is a professor, and is an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the senior tier of the Russian scientific establishment.
The university teaches across five degree faculties and a medical college, with around 5,000 international students and residents from 64 countries. It is led by Rector Valentin Nikolaevich Pavlov, reports to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, and teaches clinical medicine through the Clinic of BSMU and its specialist centres in Ufa.
64th in Russia on RAEX-100 2026, up from 98th in 2022
8th in Russia for Medicine (RAEX) from 2022 to 2025
Its own federal-level teaching hospital since 1970
Rector is an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Published seven-step international admission process
700-hour Russian preparatory course
International Students' office handles migration registration
Students from 64 countries
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Cost of living
Ufa is an industrial city of over a million people on the Belaya River at the western edge of the Urals, with regional-city prices well below Moscow. The rows below are monthly approximations in rupees. The dormitory charge is set by internal university order and is paid with tuition at the contract stage, so it is not included here; plan it with our counsellors.
| Cost Component | Approximate Amount |
|---|---|
| Food | ₹18,000 to ₹28,000 |
| Transport | ₹1,100 to ₹2,300 |
| Other expenses (utilities, internet, SIM, leisure) | ₹3,400 to ₹9,000 |
Monthly total before accommodation
₹22,500 to ₹39,300
Housing
Bashkir State Medical University houses international students in its dormitories in Ufa, arranged through the admissions commission, with the hostel fee paid alongside tuition at the contract stage.
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Food & Dining
Ufa is a city of over a million people with a large Muslim Tatar and Bashkir population, which shapes what is available to eat.
Bashkortostan has a large Muslim population, and Ufa has an established halal food supply and mosques, including the Lyalya Tulpan mosque complex.
Russian university dormitories provide shared kitchens, and cooking is the main way to eat Indian food regularly in Ufa.
Ufa has the full range of Russian supermarket chains, and the national marketplaces Ozon and Wildberries ship Indian and Asian spice brands across Russia.
Ufa has Russian, Bashkir and Tatar restaurants at regional-city prices, well below Moscow. Bashkir cooking is built around lamb, beef and dairy, so vegetarian students rely more on cooking at home.
Yandex Eda is the main food delivery platform in Russia, alongside Ozon and Wildberries for groceries and household goods.
Location
Bashkir State Medical University, Lenin Street 3, Ufa, 450008, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. This is the registered address; the Admissions Commission is at Zaki Validi Street 47, and the Clinic of BSMU stands on its own site in the city.
Nearest Airport
Ufa International Airport (UFA). There is no direct flight from India: the route runs through Moscow or a Gulf or Turkish hub
Local Transport
Buses, trams and trolleybuses serve the city, and the university works across several sites in Ufa
Your Roadmap to Success
Graduates receive the Russian Specialist diploma in General Medicine (code 31.05.01), the Russian primary medical qualification and the equivalent of an Indian MBBS, not an Indian postgraduate MD.
The six-year degree opens the FMGE route to India when the programme meets the NMC's FMGL 2021 rules on duration, internship and an English medium of teaching. Graduates of a programme that meets them sit the FMGE (NExT deferred and not in force), complete any required internship in India and register with the NMC and their State Medical Council.
The six years end in the state Primary Accreditation examination, which licenses a graduate to work as a general practitioner or paediatrician in Russia without a further internship year. Narrower specialisation takes two to four years of ordinatura.
The university runs residency and postgraduate training alongside its degree programmes. Indian graduates can also specialise in India through NEET PG after clearing the FMGE and the Indian internship.
Bashkir State Medical University is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools (WDOMS), so its graduates can apply for ECFMG Certification and sit the USMLE. ECFMG's accreditation policy is for information only and does not affect an individual graduate's eligibility for ECFMG Certification.
A Russian medical degree is not a European qualification for UK purposes, so a graduate applies to the General Medical Council through the PLAB route.
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Practising in India
To practise in India after graduating abroad, an Indian student qualifies NEET UG before admission, completes a programme that meets the NMC's FMGL 2021 rules, clears the FMGE (NExT is deferred and not in force), completes any required internship in India and registers with the NMC or a State Medical Council.
Step 1
The NMC Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate Regulations 2021 ask for a course of at least 54 months and an internship of at least twelve months in the same foreign institution. The six-year degree clears the course length. It is an integrated Specialist degree with clinical rotations and practical training in the later years and no separate internship year after graduation, so the internship arrangement of your programme is what counts.
Step 2
The regulations ask for the whole course to be taught in English. The university's fee schedule lists General Medicine as taught in Russian and English at a single price, and it runs a separate Russian preparatory course, so the language plan of your programme is the second thing that counts. Plan this with our counsellors before applying.
Step 3
The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences conducts the FMGE twice a year with a pass mark of 150 out of 300. In the December 2025 session 42,872 candidates appeared and 10,262 qualified, a pass rate of 23.95%. In June 2025, 36,034 appeared and 6,707 qualified, 18.61%. The National Exit Test (NExT), intended to replace the FMGE, is deferred and not in force. NBEMS publishes no pass rate by university or by country.
Step 4
After clearing the FMGE, a foreign graduate completes a twelve-month Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship in India, the same twelve months an Indian MBBS graduate completes.
Step 5
The final step is registration with the National Medical Commission or a State Medical Council, with the Russian degree apostilled for use in India. A registered graduate can practise anywhere in India.
Student Life Style
Ufa is a city of over a million people on the Belaya River at the western edge of the Urals. Three recent events affecting Indian students at this university are set out first, followed by the practical side of daily life.
Aerial view of a river valley between forested hills in autumn, Russia
Scholarship & Financial
The university offers no scholarship of its own for international students. The funded route is the Russian government quota, which is awarded nationally rather than by the university.
The Russian government offers a quota of scholarship places to Indian nationals each year, across undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral study, with medicine among the fields. Selection is by academic record and portfolio, without an entrance examination, and allocation across universities is decided nationally.
Tuition is RUB 490,080 a year (about ₹5.54 lakh), so RUB 2,940,480 over six years, about ₹33.2 lakh, with no premium for the English listing. The optional preparatory year costs a further RUB 253,680 (about ₹2.87 lakh).
The university lists a medical check-up at around RUB 4,000 (about ₹4,500) and medical insurance at around RUB 4,500 a year (about ₹5,100), on top of tuition and the hostel fee.
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| University | Bashkir State Medical UniversityUfa, Russia | AIIMS New DelhiNew Delhi, India |
|---|---|---|
| University Type | Public, Ministry of Health, founded 1932 | Institute of National Importance (government) |
| Medium | Russian and English, as listed by the university | English |
| Course Duration | 6 years, with clinical training built into the later years | 5.5 years, being 4.5 years plus a 12-month internship |
| Tuition (per year) | ₹5.54 lakh (RUB 490,080) | About ₹1,628 in academic fees for the whole course, including ₹1,350 tuition |
| Admission | University test in Chemistry and Biology, plus a qualifying NEET UG result | NEET UG |
| Recognition | Listed in WDOMS; FMGE route when the programme meets the NMC rules | Listed in WDOMS |
| Ranking | RAEX-100 #64 (2026); RAEX Medicine #11 (2026) | NIRF Medical 1 (2025) |
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