In December, NSU held the qualifying round for the first foreign "Your Path to Real Science" Physics Olympiad. 100 schoolchildren in Africa and China participated.
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For Stage 1, the universities have chosen chemistry as a priority for their joint work. In the future, the number of subject areas will increase and the universities plan to reach an annual target of 100-150 postgraduate students.
Four students from the NSU Natural Sciences Department won gold and silver medals at the 4th International Chemistry Olympiad, which took place October 15 to 17 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, at Magtymguly Turkmen State University. Alexander Tomilov and Nazim Mustafin won gold medals while Nikita Chernovsky and Alexander Sapov won silver.
The second edition of the Russian version of the BRICS university ranking pilot program, part of the "Three University Missions" family of rankings, has been published.
The Times Higher Education (THE) published the second edition of their global ranking of interdisciplinary research. It evaluates 911 universities from 94 countries including 44 Russian universities.
The ninth Moscow International "Three University Missions" Ranking was published ranking 2,581 universities from 165 countries. The final ranking table included 2,000 universities from 112 countries, including 156 universities from Russia. NSU ranked 238th globally, moving up 3 notches from last year, and retained its 6th place in Russia.
The Olympiad was attended by 790 students from 16 countries including India, Spain, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Algeria.
The Olympiad winners and prize-winners will receive preferential treatment when applying to NSU and they will either receive a scholarship from the Russian budget or significant tuition discounts.
In August
2025, a group of students from Novosibirsk State University's Geology and Geophysics (NSU GGE) Department participated in their first internship focusing on sedimentology, stratigraphy, and paleontology, organized by Peking University.
Sciences at the NSU Information Technologies Department (FIT), together with colleagues and students, has developed a quantitative method for determining authorial style using mathematical statistics.
Novosibirsk State University was the only university from the region to be included in the ranking’s Top 10.
Recently, a delegation from Jiangsu Normal University, one of China's leading universities, led by President Chen Fener, an academician in the Chinese Academy of Engineering, visited NSU. The universities agreed to a partnership in education and science. The first joint educational projects should begin as early as 2026.