Compared to 2024, NSU rose two positions, from 7th to 5th place, to move ahead of Tomsk State University and St. Petersburg State University.
Over 600 thousand books weighing 180 tons will be transported over the summer to their home in the new NSU Scientific Library.
Students at the NSU Institute of Intelligent Robotics (IIR), Nikita Zelenkov, Yan Komarevtsev, and Ilya Trushkin, participated in the NSU Startup Studio and created the ACMS Censor system that hides unwanted content in video and audio files.
The NSU Institute of Medicine and Medical Technologies (IMMT) reports that more than 90% of the work on stained glass windows and the ventilated facade has been completed. Similar work at the NSU Scientific Research Center (NSU SRC), is 80% done.
The Russian Federation Presidential Scholarship for postgraduate and adjunct students announced 500 winners in its second year competition. The monthly scholarship is 75 thousand rubles and can last from 1 to 4 years. In 2025, the number of NSU Presidential Scholarship winners more than doubled to 17.
NSU took the highest positions in the fields of "Biology" and "Chemistry" ranking in the top 3 best universities. NSU Physics was ranked in 5th place and 6th place in "Mathematics".
The SuperJob portal published a ranking of the best universities in Russia according to IT specialist’s salaries. It was based on university graduate data from 2019-2024. Novosibirsk State University took 7th place, finishing behind universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The Chinese Ministry of Education approved the application submitted by the universities.
In February 2025, the NSU Economics Department launched a "Product Management" course. This is the first Product Management course in Russia that pays special attention to the use of artificial intelligence.
On June 2, NSU hosted the grand opening of InteRussia 2025, an internship program for international engineering specialists. This is Novosibirsk State University’s second internship program.
NSU’s second stage of campus construction is more than 50% complete. This was reported by the Head of the Directorate for Unique Object Construction at the "Unified Customer" company Natalia Zarubina.
Novosibirsk State University, with the support of the Center for Public Diplomacy, has opened a preparatory department at Thomas Sankara University in Burkina Faso.