Nostrification or Official Certificate Recognition Procedure

Nostrification of the docu­ments confirming education is an obligatory step of the application process.

Nostrification is fulfilled only at the Main Expert Center of the Federal Education and Science Supervision Agency of the Russian Federation in Moscow (Russia). The list of docu­ments applied to the Federal Education and Science Supervision Agency for approving the docu­ment of education issued by a foreign state on the Russian Federation territory.

Nostrification will be done when you come to our University to study and the International Office specialists will help you with that.

For this you need to take the following docu­ments:

1. an application to the Federal Education and Science Supervision Agency which is filled in at the University.

2. a copy of a docu­ment (passport or other valid ID) identifying the personality of an applicant and/or the holder of the docu­ment of education which in case of necessity must be translated into Russian and notarized.

3. an original of the docu­ment confirming education. Its legalization should be done in the receiving country (Ministry of Education, Depart­ment of Education — before leaving the country you should know where you can legalize you docu­ments and legalize them).

4. an original of the legalized (if necessary) transcript to the docu­ment confirming education, if any provided by the legislation of the country issued the docu­ment confirming education, specifying the studied courses, subjects, disciplines (modules) and their volume and other components provided by the educational process.

5. copies of the docu­ment confirming education (original and transcript) with their notarized translation into Russian (if necessary). The holder’s names in the translation should coincide with those in visa or registration in the Russian Federation territory.

The holder of the certificate of education can present other docu­ments confirming his or her education including other education docu­ments and/or qualification, professional training etc. These docu­ments are presented with the copies and notarized translation (if necessary).

2) For accelerating the procedure of examination of the suit of docu­ments we recommend you to present the following additional docu­ments:

• a copy of a docu­ment of previous education (you can present any copy but only a notarized copy is considered);

• information of the foreign educational institution’s license to educational activities in the educational program valid as of the date of issuing the docu­ment (for documents of secondary and higher professional education)*;

• a certificate issued by the educational institution confirming the fact of studying and issuing the docu­ment of education with the docu­ment entry (for the documents of education issued in those states which have an agree­ment with the Russian Federation on consular legalization abolition (see site of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation http://www.mid.ru)*;

• information about mode of study (full-time/part-time/extra-mural, short/accelerated study program)*.

All the additional docu­ments presented must be translated and notarized.

Information marked with * can be presented as a single certificate from an educational institution or a national authority of education control.