100 Best universities for Demography in Russia

Updated: March 15, 2026

Ranking by academic field

Below is a list of best universities in Russia ranked based on their research performance in Demography. A graph of 433K citations received by 40.9K academic papers made by 121 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 Demography

#178 in Europe

#508 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 12%
Founded: 1755

2. National Research University Higher School of Economics

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#194 in Europe

#545 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 19%
Founded: 1992

3. St. Petersburg State University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#330 in Europe

#952 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 14%
Founded: 1724

4. Moscow Medical Academy

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#334 in Europe

#965 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 56%
Founded: 1758

5. Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#459 in Europe

#1461 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Enrollment: 15,000
Founded: 1977

6. RUDN University

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#471 in Europe

#1532 in the World

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

7. Russian National Research Medical University

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#475 in Europe

#1542 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Founded: 1906

8. Tomsk State University

Russia | Tomsk

For Demography

#503 in Europe

#1678 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 50%
Founded: 1878

9. Ural Federal University

Russia | Yekaterinburg

For Demography

#508 in Europe

#1705 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 70%
Founded: 1920

10. Novosibirsk State University

Russia | Novosibirsk

For Demography

#511 in Europe

#1739 in the World

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

11. Kazan Federal University

Russia | Kazan

For Demography

#519 in Europe

#1775 in the World

Founded: 1804

12. Southern Federal University

Russia | Rostov-on-Don

For Demography

#547 in Europe

#1953 in the World

Founded: 1915

13. Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#555 in Europe

#1978 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1919

14. Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#586 in Europe

#2129 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 36%
Enrollment: 16,401
Founded: 1907

15. Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#595 in Europe

#2170 in the World

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

16. Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#612 in Europe

#2271 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1899

17. ITMO University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#620 in Europe

#2315 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Founded: 1900

18. Kemerovo State University

Russia | Kemerovo

For Demography

#629 in Europe

#2340 in the World

Founded: 1974

19. North-Eastern Federal University

Russia | Yakutsk

For Demography

#642 in Europe

#2402 in the World

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

20. Siberian Federal University

Russia | Krasnoyarsk

For Demography

#654 in Europe

#2475 in the World

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

21. Belgorod State University

Russia | Belgorod

For Demography

#662 in Europe

#2556 in the World

Founded: 1876

22. Far Eastern Federal University

Russia | Vladivostok

For Demography

#667 in Europe

#2574 in the World

Enrollment: 41,000
Founded: 1899

23. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod

Russia | Nizhny Novgorod

For Demography

#680 in Europe

#2666 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 65%
Founded: 1916

24. New Economic School

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#689 in Europe

#2694 in the World

Enrollment: 1,000
Founded: 1992

25. Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#692 in Europe

#2701 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 22%
Founded: 1944

26. Kazan State Medical University

Russia | Kazan

For Demography

#694 in Europe

#2716 in the World

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

27. Northern Arctic Federal University

Russia | Arkhangelsk

For Demography

#702 in Europe

#2756 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Founded: 1929

28. Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical Academy

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#710 in Europe

#2793 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 58%
Enrollment: 4,000
Founded: 1925

29. University of Tyumen

Russia | Tyumen

For Demography

#727 in Europe

#2860 in the World

Founded: 1930

30. Altai State University

Russia | Barnaul

For Demography

#732 in Europe

#2910 in the World

Founded: 1973

31. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#733 in Europe

#2911 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1946

32. Kursk State Medical University

Russia | Kursk

For Demography

#746 in Europe

#2985 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 74%
Founded: 1935

33. South Ural State University

Russia | Chelyabinsk

For Demography

#749 in Europe

#2996 in the World

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

34. Siberian State Medical University

Russia | Tomsk

For Demography

#758 in Europe

#3058 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Founded: 1888

35. Saratov State University

Russia | Saratov

For Demography

#775 in Europe

#3156 in the World

Founded: 1909

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

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#776 in Europe

#3166 in the World

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

37. Ogarev Mordovia State University

Russia | Saransk

For Demography

#777 in Europe

#3173 in the World

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

38. Omsk State Medical Academy

Russia | Omsk

For Demography

#786 in Europe

#3253 in the World

Founded: 1991

39. Volgograd State University

Russia | Volgograd

For Demography

#787 in Europe

#3256 in the World

Founded: 1980

40. Samara State University

Russia | Samara

For Demography

#793 in Europe

#3276 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 54%
Enrollment: 30,000
Founded: 1969

41. Tomsk Polytechnic University

Russia | Tomsk

For Demography

#794 in Europe

#3280 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1896

42. Petrozavodsk State University

Russia | Petrozavodsk

For Demography

#800 in Europe

#3312 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 58%
Founded: 1940

43. Moscow State Pedagogical University

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#803 in Europe

#3341 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1872

44. Novosibirsk State Medical University

Russia | Novosibirsk

For Demography

#808 in Europe

#3394 in the World

Founded: 1935

45. Bashkir State University

Russia | Ufa

For Demography

#813 in Europe

#3419 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 50%
Founded: 1909

46. Irkutsk State University

Russia | Irkutsk

For Demography

#824 in Europe

#3477 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 50%
Founded: 1918

47. Privolzhsky Research Medical University

Russia | Nizhny Novgorod

For Demography

#829 in Europe

#3515 in the World

Enrollment: 6,000
Founded: 1920

48. Voronezh State Medical Academy

Russia | Voronezh

For Demography

#836 in Europe

#3554 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Enrollment: 5,000
Founded: 1918

49. National Research Nuclear University MEPI

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#844 in Europe

#3586 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 26%
Founded: 1942

50. Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Russia | Kaliningrad

For Demography

#848 in Europe

#3609 in the World

Founded: 1967

51. Baikal State University

Russia | Irkutsk

For Demography

#849 in Europe

#3623 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 84%
Founded: 1930

52. Russian State University for the Humanities

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#853 in Europe

#3642 in the World

Enrollment: 7,000
Founded: 1991

53. Chuvash State University

Russia | Cheboksary

For Demography

#854 in Europe

#3648 in the World

Founded: 1967

54. Rostov State Medical University

Russia | Rostov-on-Don

For Demography

#857 in Europe

#3655 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 58%
Founded: 1930

55. Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy

Russia | Chelyabinsk

For Demography

#868 in Europe

#3703 in the World

Founded: 1944

56. Kuban State Medical University

Russia | Krasnodar

For Demography

#869 in Europe

#3704 in the World

Founded: 1920

57. Perm State University

Russia | Perm

For Demography

#873 in Europe

#3743 in the World

Enrollment: 12,370
Founded: 1916

58. Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#882 in Europe

#3817 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1830

59. Russian State Social University

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#886 in Europe

#3841 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 72%
Founded: 1991

60. Chelyabinsk State University

Russia | Chelyabinsk

For Demography

#900 in Europe

#3925 in the World

Founded: 1976

61. Novosibirsk State Technical University

Russia | Novosibirsk

For Demography

#904 in Europe

#3941 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1950

62. Pacific State Medical University

Russia | Vladivostok

For Demography

#906 in Europe

#3959 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Enrollment: 6,000
Founded: 1958

63. Volgograd State Medical Academy

Russia | Volgograd

For Demography

#914 in Europe

#3983 in the World

Founded: 1935

64. State University of Management

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#926 in Europe

#4038 in the World

Founded: 1919

65. Samara National Research University

Russia | Samara

For Demography

#928 in Europe

#4063 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1942

66. Voronezh State University

Russia | Voronezh

For Demography

#929 in Europe

#4071 in the World

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

67. Russian State Agricultural University

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#939 in Europe

#4122 in the World

Founded: 1865

68. Siberian State Aerospace University

Russia | Krasnoyarsk

For Demography

#943 in Europe

#4133 in the World

Founded: 1960

69. North Caucasus Federal University

Russia | Stavropol

For Demography

#946 in Europe

#4175 in the World

Founded: 1971

70. Gorno-Altaisk State University

Russia | Gorno-Altaisk

For Demography

#949 in Europe

#4197 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1993

71. Altai State Medical University

Russia | Barnaul

For Demography

#955 in Europe

#4245 in the World

Founded: 1954

72. European University at St. Petersburg

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#961 in Europe

#4274 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 20%
Enrollment: 600
Founded: 1994

73. Yaroslavl State University

Russia | Yaroslavl

For Demography

#962 in Europe

#4275 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 70%
Founded: 1918

74. Novgorod State University

Russia | Veliky Novgorod

For Demography

#965 in Europe

#4313 in the World

Founded: 1993

75. Omsk State Agrarian University n.a. P. A. Stolypin

Russia | Omsk

For Demography

#972 in Europe

#4332 in the World

Founded: 1918

76. St. Petersburg State University of Economics

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#973 in Europe

#4334 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 94%
Enrollment: 12,500
Founded: 1930

77. Moscow Aviation Institute

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#974 in Europe

#4337 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 14%
Founded: 1930

78. Orenburg State University

Russia | Orenburg

For Demography

#976 in Europe

#4341 in the World

Founded: 1971

79. Ulyanovsk State University

Russia | Ulyanovsk

For Demography

#980 in Europe

#4363 in the World

Founded: 1988

80. Kuban State Agricultural University

Russia | Krasnodar

For Demography

#983 in Europe

#4373 in the World

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

81. Penza State University

Russia | Penza

For Demography

#988 in Europe

#4409 in the World

Founded: 1943

82. Tambov State University

Russia | Tambov

For Demography

#989 in Europe

#4415 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 70%
Enrollment: 10,000
Founded: 1994

83. Moscow State University of Railway Engineering

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#1007 in Europe

#4520 in the World

Founded: 1896

84. Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#1009 in Europe

#4528 in the World

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

85. Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University

Russia | Nizhny Novgorod

For Demography

#1014 in Europe

#4549 in the World

Enrollment: 15,000
Founded: 1917

86. Yaroslavl State Medical University

Russia | Yaroslavl

For Demography

#1017 in Europe

#4561 in the World

Enrollment: 4,000
Founded: 1944

87. Omsk State University

Russia | Omsk

For Demography

#1018 in Europe

#4564 in the World

Founded: 1974

88. Kursk State University

Russia | Kursk

For Demography

#1023 in Europe

#4609 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 46%
Founded: 1934

89. Stavropol State Agrarian University

Russia | Stavropol

For Demography

#1027 in Europe

#4631 in the World

Founded: 1930

90. Kuban State University

Russia | Krasnodar

For Demography

#1028 in Europe

#4639 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 67%
Founded: 1920

91. Amur State University

Russia | Blagoveshchensk

For Demography

#1036 in Europe

#4683 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 50%
Founded: 1975

92. St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#1046 in Europe

#4750 in the World

Founded: 1832

93. Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service

Russia | Vladivostok

For Demography

#1047 in Europe

#4752 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1967

94. Chechen State University

Russia | Grozny

For Demography

#1048 in Europe

#4756 in the World

Founded: 1938

95. Kalmyk State University

Russia | Elista

For Demography

#1056 in Europe

#4812 in the World

Founded: 1970

96. South-Western State University

Russia | Kursk

For Demography

#1057 in Europe

#4814 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1964

97. Astrakhan State Technical University

Russia | Astrakhan

For Demography

#1060 in Europe

#4834 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 15%
Founded: 1930

98. Orel State University

Russia | Oryol

For Demography

#1066 in Europe

#4867 in the World

Enrollment: 10,000
Founded: 1931

99. Leningrad State University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#1068 in Europe

#4876 in the World

Founded: 1992

100. Cherepovets State University

Russia | Cherepovets

For Demography

#1070 in Europe

#4885 in the World

Founded: 1996

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