68 Best universities for Zoology in Russia

Updated: March 02, 2025

Ranking by academic field

Below is a list of best universities in Russia ranked based on their research performance in Zoology. A graph of 274K citations received by 23.2K academic papers made by 68 universities in Russia was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

1. Moscow State University

Russia | Moscow

For Zoology

#54 in Europe

#155 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 12%
Founded: 1755

2. St. Petersburg State University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Zoology

#104 in Europe

#283 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 14%
Founded: 1724

3. Tomsk State University

For Zoology

#214 in Europe

#595 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 50%
Founded: 1878

4. Altai State University

Russia | Barnaul

For Zoology

#217 in Europe

#602 in the World

Founded: 1973

5. University of Tyumen

Russia | Tyumen

For Zoology

#224 in Europe

#624 in the World

Founded: 1930

6. Far Eastern Federal University

Russia | Vladivostok

For Zoology

#338 in Europe

#1030 in the World

Enrollment: 41,000
Founded: 1899

7. Novosibirsk State University

Russia | Novosibirsk

For Zoology

#357 in Europe

#1119 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Enrollment: 7,131
Founded: 1959

8. Moscow State Pedagogical University

Russia | Moscow

For Zoology

#406 in Europe

#1385 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1872

9. Voronezh State University

Russia | Voronezh

For Zoology

#416 in Europe

#1431 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 70%
Enrollment: 20,188
Founded: 1918

10. Ufa State Aviation Technical University

For Zoology

#420 in Europe

#1460 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 40%
Founded: 1932

11. Northern Arctic Federal University

Russia | Arkhangelsk

For Zoology

#428 in Europe

#1496 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Founded: 1929

12. Kazan Federal University

For Zoology

#432 in Europe

#1503 in the World

Founded: 1804

13. Moscow Medical Academy

Russia | Moscow

For Zoology

#455 in Europe

#1626 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 56%
Founded: 1758

14. National Research University Higher School of Economics

Russia | Moscow

For Zoology

#468 in Europe

#1681 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 19%
Founded: 1992

15. Irkutsk State University

Russia | Irkutsk

For Zoology

#474 in Europe

#1723 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 50%
Founded: 1918

16. Ural Federal University

Russia | Yekaterinburg

For Zoology

#503 in Europe

#1861 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 70%
Founded: 1920

17. Southern Federal University

Russia | Rostov-on-Don

For Zoology

#521 in Europe

#1959 in the World

Founded: 1915

18. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod

Russia | Nizhny Novgorod

For Zoology

#525 in Europe

#1980 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 65%
Founded: 1916

19. Ogarev Mordovia State University

Russia | Saransk

For Zoology

#526 in Europe

#1989 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 70%
Enrollment: 8,000
Founded: 1931

20. Kaliningrad State Technical University

Russia | Kaliningrad

For Zoology

#542 in Europe

#2061 in the World

Founded: 1930

21. National University of Science and Technology "MISIS"

Russia | Moscow

For Zoology

#544 in Europe

#2075 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1930

22. Samara National Research University

Russia | Samara

For Zoology

#547 in Europe

#2090 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1942

23. Smolensk State University

Russia | Smolensk

For Zoology

#559 in Europe

#2144 in the World

Founded: 1918

24. Perm State University

For Zoology

#565 in Europe

#2170 in the World

Enrollment: 12,370
Founded: 1916

25. Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University

Russia | Ulyanovsk

For Zoology

#573 in Europe

#2194 in the World

Founded: 1932

26. Siberian Federal University

Russia | Krasnoyarsk

For Zoology

#577 in Europe

#2221 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 38%
Enrollment: 32,145
Founded: 2006

27. Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Zoology

#584 in Europe

#2262 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1899

28. Saratov State University

Russia | Saratov

For Zoology

#591 in Europe

#2298 in the World

Founded: 1909

29. RUDN University

Russia | Moscow

For Zoology

#597 in Europe

#2324 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Enrollment: 29,000
Founded: 1960

30. Omsk State Pedagogical University

For Zoology

#613 in Europe

#2403 in the World

Founded: 1932

31. Belgorod State University

Russia | Belgorod

For Zoology

#621 in Europe

#2429 in the World

Founded: 1876

32. Cherepovets State University

Russia | Cherepovets

For Zoology

#624 in Europe

#2454 in the World

Founded: 1996

33. ITMO University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Zoology

#634 in Europe

#2555 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Founded: 1900

34. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Russia | Moscow

For Zoology

#637 in Europe

#2561 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1946

35. Kuban State University

Russia | Krasnodar

For Zoology

#646 in Europe

#2615 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 67%
Founded: 1920

36. Sakhalin State University

Russia | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

For Zoology

#652 in Europe

#2630 in the World

Founded: 1949

37. Russian National Research Medical University

Russia | Moscow

For Zoology

#656 in Europe

#2647 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Founded: 1906

38. Kuban State Agricultural University

Russia | Krasnodar

For Zoology

#661 in Europe

#2677 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 84%
Enrollment: 12,000
Founded: 1922

39. Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Russia | Kaliningrad

For Zoology

#683 in Europe

#2770 in the World

Founded: 1967

40. Siberian State Medical University

For Zoology

#691 in Europe

#2820 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Founded: 1888

41. Tver State University

For Zoology

#703 in Europe

#2904 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 70%
Founded: 1870

42. Penza State University

For Zoology

#706 in Europe

#2922 in the World

Founded: 1943

43. N.R.U. Moscow Power Engineering Institute

Russia | Moscow

For Zoology

#707 in Europe

#2931 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Enrollment: 17,519
Founded: 1930

44. Kemerovo State University

Russia | Kemerovo

For Zoology

#708 in Europe

#2941 in the World

Founded: 1974

45. Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Russia | Moscow

For Zoology

#711 in Europe

#2963 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1830

46. North-Eastern Federal University

Russia | Yakutsk

For Zoology

#713 in Europe

#2987 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Enrollment: 19,077
Founded: 1956

47. Tomsk Polytechnic University

For Zoology

#720 in Europe

#3024 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1896

48. Russian State Agricultural University

Russia | Moscow

For Zoology

#721 in Europe

#3041 in the World

Founded: 1865

49. North Caucasus Federal University

Russia | Stavropol

For Zoology

#725 in Europe

#3071 in the World

Founded: 1971

50. Petrozavodsk State University

Russia | Petrozavodsk

For Zoology

#730 in Europe

#3088 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 58%
Founded: 1940

51. Astrakhan State Technical University

Russia | Astrakhan

For Zoology

#737 in Europe

#3142 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 15%
Founded: 1930

52. National Research Nuclear University MEPI

Russia | Moscow

For Zoology

#741 in Europe

#3172 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 26%
Founded: 1942

53. Udmurt State University

Russia | Izhevsk

For Zoology

#752 in Europe

#3247 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 81%
Founded: 1931

54. Bashkir State University

For Zoology

#753 in Europe

#3261 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 50%
Founded: 1909

55. Moscow Aviation Institute

Russia | Moscow

For Zoology

#756 in Europe

#3269 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 14%
Founded: 1930

56. Rostov State Medical University

Russia | Rostov-on-Don

For Zoology

#760 in Europe

#3320 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 58%
Founded: 1930

57. Novosibirsk State Technical University

Russia | Novosibirsk

For Zoology

#761 in Europe

#3323 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1950

58. South Ural State University

Russia | Chelyabinsk

For Zoology

#764 in Europe

#3338 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 29%
Enrollment: 50,000
Founded: 1943

59. Leningrad State University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Zoology

#765 in Europe

#3347 in the World

Founded: 1992

60. Ulyanovsk State University

Russia | Ulyanovsk

For Zoology

#768 in Europe

#3371 in the World

Founded: 1988

61. Ufa State Petroleum Technological University

For Zoology

#771 in Europe

#3378 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 50%
Enrollment: 15,000
Founded: 1948

62. Perm State Technical University

For Zoology

#773 in Europe

#3397 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 70%
Enrollment: 20,000
Founded: 1953

63. Yaroslavl State University

Russia | Yaroslavl

For Zoology

#776 in Europe

#3412 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 70%
Founded: 1918

64. Novgorod State University

Russia | Veliky Novgorod

For Zoology

#777 in Europe

#3415 in the World

Founded: 1993

65. Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service

Russia | Vladivostok

For Zoology

#778 in Europe

#3418 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1967

66. Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Zoology

#785 in Europe

#3458 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Enrollment: 8,000
Founded: 1897

67. Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Zoology

#786 in Europe

#3477 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Enrollment: 10,000
Founded: 1886

68. Kazan State Medical University

For Zoology

#788 in Europe

#3498 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 68%
Enrollment: 6,000
Founded: 1814

The best cities to study Zoology in Russia based on the number of universities and their ranks are Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Tomsk, and Barnaul.