School of Medicine and Life Sciences

School of Medicine and Life Sciences is the medical and biomedical faculty of the Far Eastern Federal University. Founded in 2011 as the School of Biomedicine, it began instruction in 2013, and English-medium instruction began in 2016.

Aside from Russian-medium programs, we offer an English-medium program "General Medicine". Currently, we teach around 600 students on this program.

We are a public school, that means we are funded and directed by the Russian Governement and follow Russian state educational standards.

Our international programs with full English instruction:

General Medicine (6 year Specialist's degree program)

Biomedicine (4 year Bachelor's degree program)

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacy (5 year Specialist's degree program)

Leadership and Governance in Public Health (2 year Master's degree program)

Molecular and Cell Biology (2 year Master's degree program)

"General Medicine" Program:

Curriculum duration: 6 years
Degree awarded on graduation: Russian Specialist Degree (recognised as M.D. in CIS countries)
Language of instruction: English for the whole duration of the program (all 6 years)
Entrance Exam: required (Chemistry and Biology); Russian language is not required for the International programs
Clinical Facilities: the School of Medicine has access to a number of facilities, including the FEFU Medical Center

Admission (Please click here for admission details)

Arriving to Russia for the first time (What to mind and what to take with you when going to Russia)