100 Best universities for Demography 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 Demography. A graph of 411K citations received by 40K academic papers made by 119 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

#183 in Europe

#521 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 12%
Founded: 1755

2. National Research University Higher School of Economics

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#200 in Europe

#557 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 19%
Founded: 1992

3. St. Petersburg State University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#330 in Europe

#948 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 14%
Founded: 1724

4. Moscow Medical Academy

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#349 in Europe

#1018 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 56%
Founded: 1758

5. Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#463 in Europe

#1482 in the World

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

6. RUDN University

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#479 in Europe

#1567 in the World

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

7. Russian National Research Medical University

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#482 in Europe

#1581 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Founded: 1906

8. Tomsk State University

Russia | Tomsk

For Demography

#505 in Europe

#1689 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 50%
Founded: 1878

9. Ural Federal University

Russia | Yekaterinburg

For Demography

#515 in Europe

#1742 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 70%
Founded: 1920

10. Novosibirsk State University

Russia | Novosibirsk

For Demography

#516 in Europe

#1748 in the World

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

11. Kazan Federal University

Russia | Kazan

For Demography

#521 in Europe

#1787 in the World

Founded: 1804

12. Southern Federal University

Russia | Rostov-on-Don

For Demography

#550 in Europe

#1949 in the World

Founded: 1915

13. Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#569 in Europe

#2048 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1919

14. Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#590 in Europe

#2150 in the World

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

15. Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#591 in Europe

#2151 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

#2266 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1899

17. ITMO University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#626 in Europe

#2338 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Founded: 1900

18. Kemerovo State University

Russia | Kemerovo

For Demography

#630 in Europe

#2359 in the World

Founded: 1974

19. North-Eastern Federal University

Russia | Yakutsk

For Demography

#645 in Europe

#2440 in the World

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

20. Siberian Federal University

Russia | Krasnoyarsk

For Demography

#653 in Europe

#2485 in the World

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

21. Belgorod State University

Russia | Belgorod

For Demography

#665 in Europe

#2563 in the World

Founded: 1876

22. Far Eastern Federal University

Russia | Vladivostok

For Demography

#670 in Europe

#2594 in the World

Enrollment: 41,000
Founded: 1899

23. New Economic School

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#679 in Europe

#2654 in the World

Enrollment: 1,000
Founded: 1992

24. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod

Russia | Nizhny Novgorod

For Demography

#691 in Europe

#2711 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 65%
Founded: 1916

25. Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#696 in Europe

#2739 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 22%
Founded: 1944

26. Kazan State Medical University

Russia | Kazan

For Demography

#698 in Europe

#2748 in the World

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

27. Northern Arctic Federal University

Russia | Arkhangelsk

For Demography

#709 in Europe

#2796 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Founded: 1929

28. Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical Academy

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#713 in Europe

#2821 in the World

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

29. Altai State University

Russia | Barnaul

For Demography

#731 in Europe

#2906 in the World

Founded: 1973

30. University of Tyumen

Russia | Tyumen

For Demography

#733 in Europe

#2913 in the World

Founded: 1930

31. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#736 in Europe

#2925 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1946

32. Kursk State Medical University

Russia | Kursk

For Demography

#746 in Europe

#2991 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 74%
Founded: 1935

33. South Ural State University

Russia | Chelyabinsk

For Demography

#750 in Europe

#3018 in the World

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

34. Siberian State Medical University

Russia | Tomsk

For Demography

#759 in Europe

#3052 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 10%
Founded: 1888

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

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#769 in Europe

#3125 in the World

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

36. Saratov State University

Russia | Saratov

For Demography

#771 in Europe

#3134 in the World

Founded: 1909

37. Samara State University

Russia | Samara

For Demography

#783 in Europe

#3240 in the World

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

38. Tomsk Polytechnic University

Russia | Tomsk

For Demography

#786 in Europe

#3261 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1896

39. Ogarev Mordovia State University

Russia | Saransk

For Demography

#789 in Europe

#3269 in the World

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

40. Volgograd State University

Russia | Volgograd

For Demography

#790 in Europe

#3272 in the World

Founded: 1980

41. Petrozavodsk State University

Russia | Petrozavodsk

For Demography

#801 in Europe

#3314 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 58%
Founded: 1940

42. Moscow State Pedagogical University

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#803 in Europe

#3329 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1872

43. Omsk State Medical Academy

Russia | Omsk

For Demography

#805 in Europe

#3345 in the World

Founded: 1991

44. Novosibirsk State Medical University

Russia | Novosibirsk

For Demography

#812 in Europe

#3400 in the World

Founded: 1935

45. Irkutsk State University

Russia | Irkutsk

For Demography

#815 in Europe

#3417 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 50%
Founded: 1918

46. Bashkir State University

Russia | Ufa

For Demography

#817 in Europe

#3430 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 50%
Founded: 1909

47. Privolzhsky Research Medical University

Russia | Nizhny Novgorod

For Demography

#842 in Europe

#3580 in the World

Enrollment: 6,000
Founded: 1920

48. Voronezh State Medical Academy

Russia | Voronezh

For Demography

#843 in Europe

#3587 in the World

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

49. National Research Nuclear University MEPI

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#846 in Europe

#3600 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 26%
Founded: 1942

50. Russian State University for the Humanities

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#850 in Europe

#3641 in the World

Enrollment: 7,000
Founded: 1991

51. Chuvash State University

Russia | Cheboksary

For Demography

#853 in Europe

#3648 in the World

Founded: 1967

52. Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Russia | Kaliningrad

For Demography

#855 in Europe

#3661 in the World

Founded: 1967

53. Perm State University

Russia | Perm

For Demography

#865 in Europe

#3714 in the World

Enrollment: 12,370
Founded: 1916

54. Baikal State University

Russia | Irkutsk

For Demography

#869 in Europe

#3727 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 84%
Founded: 1930

55. Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy

Russia | Chelyabinsk

For Demography

#872 in Europe

#3739 in the World

Founded: 1944

56. Rostov State Medical University

Russia | Rostov-on-Don

For Demography

#873 in Europe

#3749 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 58%
Founded: 1930

57. Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#874 in Europe

#3752 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1830

58. Kuban State Medical University

Russia | Krasnodar

For Demography

#876 in Europe

#3779 in the World

Founded: 1920

59. Russian State Social University

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#887 in Europe

#3838 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 72%
Founded: 1991

60. Volgograd State Medical Academy

Russia | Volgograd

For Demography

#904 in Europe

#3929 in the World

Founded: 1935

61. Novosibirsk State Technical University

Russia | Novosibirsk

For Demography

#906 in Europe

#3940 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 30%
Founded: 1950

62. Chelyabinsk State University

Russia | Chelyabinsk

For Demography

#912 in Europe

#3965 in the World

Founded: 1976

63. Pacific State Medical University

Russia | Vladivostok

For Demography

#918 in Europe

#3989 in the World

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

64. Samara National Research University

Russia | Samara

For Demography

#929 in Europe

#4050 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1942

65. State University of Management

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#933 in Europe

#4083 in the World

Founded: 1919

66. Russian State Agricultural University

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#937 in Europe

#4103 in the World

Founded: 1865

67. Siberian State Aerospace University

Russia | Krasnoyarsk

For Demography

#940 in Europe

#4114 in the World

Founded: 1960

68. Voronezh State University

Russia | Voronezh

For Demography

#942 in Europe

#4125 in the World

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

69. Gorno-Altaisk State University

Russia | Gorno-Altaisk

For Demography

#945 in Europe

#4134 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1993

70. North Caucasus Federal University

Russia | Stavropol

For Demography

#953 in Europe

#4211 in the World

Founded: 1971

71. European University at St. Petersburg

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#956 in Europe

#4227 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 20%
Enrollment: 600
Founded: 1994

72. Yaroslavl State University

Russia | Yaroslavl

For Demography

#964 in Europe

#4293 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 70%
Founded: 1918

73. Novgorod State University

Russia | Veliky Novgorod

For Demography

#966 in Europe

#4304 in the World

Founded: 1993

74. Moscow Aviation Institute

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#967 in Europe

#4305 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 14%
Founded: 1930

75. Altai State Medical University

Russia | Barnaul

For Demography

#969 in Europe

#4316 in the World

Founded: 1954

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

Russia | Omsk

For Demography

#978 in Europe

#4347 in the World

Founded: 1918

77. Orenburg State University

Russia | Orenburg

For Demography

#979 in Europe

#4350 in the World

Founded: 1971

78. Ulyanovsk State University

Russia | Ulyanovsk

For Demography

#981 in Europe

#4356 in the World

Founded: 1988

79. St. Petersburg State University of Economics

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#982 in Europe

#4357 in the World

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

80. Kuban State Agricultural University

Russia | Krasnodar

For Demography

#985 in Europe

#4382 in the World

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

81. Penza State University

Russia | Penza

For Demography

#997 in Europe

#4480 in the World

Founded: 1943

82. Tambov State University

Russia | Tambov

For Demography

#1000 in Europe

#4488 in the World

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

83. Moscow State University of Railway Engineering

Russia | Moscow

For Demography

#1004 in Europe

#4501 in the World

Founded: 1896

84. Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#1007 in Europe

#4531 in the World

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

85. Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University

Russia | Nizhny Novgorod

For Demography

#1009 in Europe

#4536 in the World

Enrollment: 15,000
Founded: 1917

86. Kursk State University

Russia | Kursk

For Demography

#1014 in Europe

#4546 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 46%
Founded: 1934

87. Yaroslavl State Medical University

Russia | Yaroslavl

For Demography

#1021 in Europe

#4580 in the World

Enrollment: 4,000
Founded: 1944

88. Stavropol State Agrarian University

Russia | Stavropol

For Demography

#1027 in Europe

#4623 in the World

Founded: 1930

89. Omsk State University

Russia | Omsk

For Demography

#1028 in Europe

#4625 in the World

Founded: 1974

90. Kuban State University

Russia | Krasnodar

For Demography

#1033 in Europe

#4652 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 67%
Founded: 1920

91. Amur State University

Russia | Blagoveshchensk

For Demography

#1045 in Europe

#4728 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 50%
Founded: 1975

92. Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service

Russia | Vladivostok

For Demography

#1048 in Europe

#4748 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1967

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

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#1049 in Europe

#4756 in the World

Founded: 1832

94. Chechen State University

Russia | Grozny

For Demography

#1051 in Europe

#4760 in the World

Founded: 1938

95. South-Western State University

Russia | Kursk

For Demography

#1054 in Europe

#4798 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 60%
Founded: 1964

96. Kalmyk State University

Russia | Elista

For Demography

#1057 in Europe

#4816 in the World

Founded: 1970

97. Astrakhan State Technical University

Russia | Astrakhan

For Demography

#1062 in Europe

#4837 in the World

Acceptance Rate: 15%
Founded: 1930

98. Leningrad State University

Russia | Saint Petersburg

For Demography

#1063 in Europe

#4838 in the World

Founded: 1992

99. Orel State University

Russia | Oryol

For Demography

#1065 in Europe

#4849 in the World

Enrollment: 10,000
Founded: 1931

100. Sakhalin State University

Russia | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

For Demography

#1070 in Europe

#4876 in the World

Founded: 1949

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