Vitebsk universities have finished accepting documents for state-funded education: all about competitions and in-demand specialties
At the Vitebsk State Technological University, 624 applications have been submitted for 350 state-funded places. 407 applications are for full-time study (enrollment plan – 280 students), and 217 are for part-time study (enrollment plan for full part-time study – 5 state-funded places, for shortened part-time study – 65 state-funded places).
Viktoria Murycheva, Deputy Responsible Secretary of the VSTU Admissions Committee, stated that among the full-time state-funded specialties, the highest passing scores this year at the Faculty of Economics and Business Management were for the new specialty "Economics of E-business" (312 points; incidentally, 9 state-funded places are allocated for full-time study here). Slightly lower was the score for the specialty "Marketing" (302 points).
At the Faculty of Information Technologies and Robotics, the highest passing scores were for the specialty "Technical Operation of Energy Equipment of Organizations" (230 points).
At the Faculty of Design, the highest passing scores were for the specialty "Virtual Environment Design" (244 points); incidentally, this faculty also has the highest competition – 4.7 applicants per place.
Competition is also high for certain specialties of part-time and shortened part-time state-funded study. For the specialty "Technical Operation of Energy Equipment of Organizations" in the full part-time form, the competition was 4 applicants per place. For the shortened form of the specialty "Information Systems and Technologies (in Design and Production)", it was 3.7 applicants per place, and for the specialty "Automation of Technological Processes and Production (Light Industry)", it was 3.3 applicants per place.
As Viktoria Murycheva noted, due to the increased demand from light industry enterprises for graduates of specialties that are in demand by the country's economy, the university announces an additional enrollment for full-time state-funded study in the specialties "Textile Materials Production" (13 places) and "Clothing, Footwear, and Leather Goods Production" (10 places). Required centralized testing certificates include Russian or Belarusian language, mathematics, and physics.
It is noteworthy that applicants with a certificate of general secondary education of a special sample awarded with a gold or silver medal, or a diploma of vocational and technical education with general secondary education with honors, or a diploma of secondary specialized education with honors, or a diploma of a winner (I, II, III degree) of the third (regional, Minsk city) stage of the republican olympiad in academic subjects held by the Ministry of Education in the 2019-2020 academic year are enrolled in these specialties without entrance examinations (without CT certificates). The deadline for submitting documents is until August 13 inclusive.
Lyudmila Belyaeva, the responsible secretary of the VSMU admissions committee, said that the maximum scores of some applicants who submitted documents to the medical and dental faculties were 391 (3 people) and 381-382 (3 people) respectively, and for the pharmaceutical faculty – 376-385 (3 people).
Enrollment in state-funded places at the university took place on August 5. The medical faculty has 300 state-funded places, including 150 targeted places, with 319 applications submitted. The overall competition was 1.57 people per place, among targeted applicants from the Vitebsk region – 1.76 people per place. 88 applications were submitted for the dental faculty, which has 30 state-funded places and 10 targeted places. The overall competition is 1.76 people per place, among targeted applicants from the Vitebsk region – 1.67 people per place, the highest competition among targeted applicants from the Gomel region is 2.5 people per place. There are 55 state-funded full-time places at the pharmaceutical faculty, including 25 targeted places, with 108 applications submitted. The overall competition is 1.96 people per place, targeted – 1.88 people per place.
At VSU named after P.M. Masherov, the highest competition is traditionally for the group of specialties of the law faculty – about 8.5 people per place. The maximum score in the applications submitted to this faculty is 350. This was announced by Irina Semkina, the responsible secretary of the university's admissions committee.
New specialties — "Linguistic Support of Intercultural Communications (Foreign Economic Relations)", "Russian Language. Foreign (Chinese)", "Information Resources Management" — attracted applicants with high scores.
The highest score for the specialty "Linguistic Support of Intercultural Communications (Foreign Economic Relations)" was 359, and the passing score was 337. For the specialty "Information Resources Management", the highest score among submitted documents was 334, and the passing score was 275.
A total of 1154 applications were submitted to PSU named after P.M. Masherov this year: 745 for full-time study (425 state-funded places), and 409 for part-time study (174 state-funded places). The overall competition in the university was 1.93 people per place.
Those who did not get into state-funded study can submit documents by August 15 and participate in the competition for enrollment in fee-paying study.
The Vitebsk Order of the Badge of Honour State Academy of Veterinary Medicine needs to enroll 555 people for state-funded full-time study this year; 514 applications have been submitted. The responsible secretary of the admissions committee, Alexander Solovyov, noted:
— For most specialties, graduates submitted documents with scores of 180-200 and above. And this is without certificates in Russian or Belarusian languages. The most in-demand specialty at the veterinary academy is "Veterinary Sanitation and Expertise", where the competition was 6 people per place, and the scores in the submitted documents were mainly above 220. The overall competition for the academy is 1.2 people per place.
In addition, there will be an additional enrollment for state-funded study in the specialty "Zootechny" (including the "Kynology" specialization). Document submission will last until August 13 inclusive, based on the results of centralized testing only in biology and chemistry (from 7 points). It should be noted that upon signing a targeted contract with enterprises of the Vitebsk region, young men undergo compulsory military service in the reserve after graduating from the academy.
The Vitebsk branch of the International University "MITSO" will continue to accept documents until August 15 inclusive, as the form of education at the university is paid. The Deputy Responsible Secretary of the Admissions Committee, Irina Grebenshchikova, said that the most in-demand specialties among applicants remain "Jurisprudence", "Logistics", and "Linguistic Support for Intercultural Communications" (introduced last year).