Students Are Lining Up to Get Into University, THE MOSCOW TIMES

From: The Moscow Times (Russia) | Date: July 23, 2003| Author: Oksana Yablokova | Copyright information


The Moscow Times (Russia)

07-23-2003

Students chatting on the campus of Moscow State University on Tuesday.

Competition to get into institutes of higher learning is unusually
fierce this summer, and demand for majors involving high technology has
skyrocketed, school officials said.
The country's 657 universities and colleges stopped accepting
applications last week and are sorting through them to pick out by the
end of July the 594,381 st...

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