Far Eastern Federal University(Approved by NMC & WHO) is a university located in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia. In 2022 the university was ranked #1,506 in Best Global Universities by US News & World Report, and in 2021 it was ranked #1,804 by Center for World University Rankings.

History

FEFU was established in 1899 during the Russian Empire era by the special order of Tsar Nicholas II as the Eastern Institute as a higher education institution specializing in oriental studies and training for administrative, commercial and industrial institutions in the Far East. The main goal of the university was to train personnel for administrative, commercial and industrial institutions in the East Asian part of Russia and adjacent states. The main courses were the languages: Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, Korean and Mongolian, history and political organization of the Eastern states, jurisprudence etc.

Ratings, accreditation& Funding

In 2022 the university was ranked #1,506 in Best Global Universities by US News & World Report, and in 2021 it was ranked #1,804 by Center for World University Rankings.

Far Eastern Federal University is accredited and funded by the Russian Ministry of Education. FEFU has joint academic departments with research institutes in natural sciences accredited by the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Russian Far East. In 1999, FEFU won a competition among 90 Russian Universities for a one-million US dollar grant from the American Civil Research and Development Fund. Utilizing Internet videoconference technology, FEFU pioneered several educational programs: Russian and Japanese languages, Russian-American joint credit courses in law, and international dual degree programs in business.